San Francisco Silent Film Festival
posted May 6, 2010
From July 15-18, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival runs, featuring a restored print from the most intact version of F.W. Murnau’s Metropolis found to date (at the Museo del Cine in Buenos Aires and now making the rounds worldwide). http://www.silentfilm.org/index.php
From Nitrate to Digital: New Technologies and the Art of Cinema
posted May 6, 2010
From May 1-9, the UCLA Film & Television Archive at the Billy Wilder Theater presents “From Nitrate to Digital: New Technologies and the Art of Cinema.” Throughout May and June, the Archive, Cinecittà Luce and the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles present a retrospective of Italian-based Turkish filmmaker Ferzan Ozpetek: http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/calendar/calendar.aspx