What the Hell?

[chidder]

This morning, in The New York Sun, there's an article about how Manhattan's Anthology Film Archives (according to its website, "the first museum devoted to film as an art form") is reviving the early movies of Albert Brooks; specifically, his first two features, the wonderful and exquisite Real Life and Modern Love (the former, made in 1979, an

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[silver_chipmunk]

*blink, blink* Made in 1985, major studio release, and it's just _gone_??? That's... that's the stuff conspiracy theories are made of...

You know, I saw a documentary about this very subject once.

[nyexeccoach]

At least I think it was a documentary, it's so difficult to tell these days. Anyway, in "Be Kind Rewind" a similar challenge was overcome by reenacting the lost videos. Perhaps we should take a page from that book, or a freeze frame from that film? My fear is that Mysti would totally trash the Winnebago,but I'm game!

what the hell? indeed...

[pulpfantrntno]

to me this is a ludicrous idea. sure, dvd is great, i guess, but as preservation goes? blech. imagine the restorative measures years and years down the road from even now when they try to restore a dvd copy of this movie for whatever format is popular then and realize they can't due to excessive generational deterioration. i love albert brooks, and the fact that so many other people do makes me just drop my jaw in disbelief at this information.