The Moving Image Source Calendar is a selective international guide to retrospectives, screenings, festivals, and exhibitions.
Descriptions are drawn from the calendars of the presenting venues.
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To Save and Project: The Seventh MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation
October 24–November 15, 2009 at
Museum of Modern Art
, New York
To Save and Project, MoMA's international film preservation festival, celebrates its seventh year with gloriously preserved masterworks and rediscoveries of world cinema, nearly all of which are having their New York premieres. The exhibition opens with a weeklong theatrical run of John Cassavetes's A Woman Under the Influence (1974), which will be introduced by Gena Rowlands on October 24. Also featured are two classics of 1950s Italian melodrama that differ radically in their styles and portrayals of complex women: Luchino Visconti's Senso (1954), an impossibly beautiful Technicolor romance starring Alida Valli and Farley Granger; and Michelangelo Antonioni's modernist breakthrough Le Amiche (1955). MoMA premieres its own restoration of Robert Flaherty's landmark Nanook of the North (1922), and celebrates the superlative preservation work of Sony Pictures Repertory by inviting Grover Crisp, Senior Vice President of Asset Management, Film Restoration & Digital Mastering, to present four stunning new restorations: Frank Capra's Forbidden (1933), a pre-Code gem starring Barbara Stanwyck (shown with a rare, behind-the-scenes Columbia short with Capra himself); Richard Brooks's unjustly neglected all-star Western The Professionals (1966); and Bob Rafelson's The King of Marvin Gardens (1972), starring Jack Nicholson.
Featured Works:
Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty, 1922); Forbidden (Frank Capra, 1932); Senso (Luchino Visconti, 1954); Le Amiche (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1955); The Professionals (Richard Brooks, 1966); The King of Marvin Gardens (Bob Rafelson, 1972, pictured); A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974)
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To Save and Project: The Seventh MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation