Enjoy this salvaged 1984 performance of Yukio Ninagawa’s Medea! The peformances, costumes and design are incredible. “This is an RF-rip of Yukio Ninagawa’s 1984 performance of Medea, aka, 王女メディア. Released by Toho video only on VHS….This performance itself was referenced in an episode of Chris Marker’s The Owl’s […]
At Smithsonian Magazine, Fritzi Kramer writes about the importance of recovering lost silent films. Read it here. “These lost films have a resonance beyond film history. They might offer historians an opportunity to see historical figures like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle or Teddy Roosevelt. They might feature real […]
At the Atlantic, Adrienne LaFrance writes about the creeping obsolescence of CDs (and DVDs) as well as the ways they deteriorate physically. “Recordable CDs—the kind you can burn or rewrite—tend to have more complicated degradation issues than their professionally-recorded counterparts. That’s partly because they’re made from organic dyes […]
Friend of the Gutter Ed Glaser of Neon Harbor has found a complete 35 mm print of The Man Who Saved The World, aka, Turkish Star Wars (1982). “A 35mm print of ‘Turkish Star Wars’ is the holy grail,” says Glaser, “not just of rip-off films, but all […]
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