Though they go by different names, almost every major streaming service has some type of “Black film” collection, often promoted during the month of February or, during 2020’s Black Lives Matter ...
A still from director Edward Yang's 2000 film "Yi Yi." (Courtesy Harvard Film Archive) One of my favorite depictions of a child in all of cinema is an 8-year-old named Yang Yang in writer-director ...
The forthcoming Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, founded by filmmaker George Lucas his wife, Mellody Hobson, has has acquired the Separate Cinema Archive, a collection of 37,000 objects documenting ...
Huge questions loom about the status of an archive of thousands of films that dates back to 1927. During the Taliban’s rule of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, women and girls were shut out of public ...
NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Maya Cade, who saw how hard it is to access movies by Black directors — so she created the Black Film Archive, a collection of nearly 250 films spanning seven decades.
Those who want to know who wrote Cooley High or where Shaft In Africa was filmed, can now do so through the Black Film Archive, an online database of Black films. “I have always leaned on Black cinema ...
If you saw the most recent incarnation of “Candyman” from director Nia DaCosta — all of it shot in Chicago, some of which takes place amid the remaining Cabrini row houses — you might be compelled to ...
You never forget your first time seeing the American Genre Film Archive. Sebastian del Castillo was a food runner at the Alamo Village. One day, he went up to the projection booth and found rack after ...
New York’s Anthology Film Archives has unveiled plans to add a library and café to its East Village headquarters, the institution’s first expansion since its founding in 1970. “The construction of the ...
The same week the Oscars once again faced questions about diversity and inclusion in its nominees, George Lucas’ forthcoming Los Angeles art museum announced that it had acquired more than 37,000 ...
Today we are celebrating the 2018 UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage by trying to answer this question: Why would archives invest in new copies of films that have already been copied to a ...
Lotte Cinema announced that it has teamed up with Nexon to release a movie and prepare a variety of events to commemorate the 4th anniversary of 'Blue Archive'. 'Blue Archive: The Orchestra in Cinema' ...