Ep. 25 Missing Movies and Lost Films
In this episode, contributor Sean Naughton (he/him) and host Edward Frumkin (he/him) analyze the importance of restoring and preserving films, and recognizing these efforts from Missing Movies, a group of filmmakers, distributors, and archivists advocating for accessible cinema. Then Edward reviews The Time Traveler’s Wife, Cason Suggs’ recommendation. Finally in today’s concluding thought, Edward discusses his new adopted home.
Time Codes:
1:10 - Introducing Missing Movies
4:00 - Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation and World Cinema Project
8:25 - Limitations of a physical and digital archives
11:10 - Missing Movies Efforts to Preserve Films
15:53 - Edward's Review: The Time Traveler's Wife
19:15 - Acknowledge the Biases that Archivists Have
21:35 - Discussing the Archive's Impact as Shown in America by Garrett Bradley
24:40 - The Afterlight by Charlie Shackleton and Discussing the Missing Movies Manifesto
30:00 - Recommending Kino Lorber's Pioneers of African-American Cinema
33:12 - Concluding Thought: Edward's New Adopted Home
Show Notes:
Pioneers of African-American Cinema Co-Curated by Jacqueline Stewart and Charles Musser
Missing Movies Manifesto and Press
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