What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962, Robert Aldrich

January 19 to February 9, 2012

In the nineteen-fifties, the American film industry discovered a major new theme: itself. This is not to suggest that there had not previously been examples of films about fallen stars or the glamour of the California "film colony," but rather that the enormous increase in films about these subjects after 1950 marks a striking dividing line - and mirrors the dusk of the "Golden Age" of Hollywood cinema.[...]

January 7 to February 9, 2012

Mass enlightenment: This could be the phrase that links Giuseppe De Santis and Elio Petri - in addition to their friendship and their master-student relationship. In January 2012, the Film Museum features both of their oeuvres. What will become apparent is a major, politically unambiguous and often-repressed thread of Italian film between 1945 and 1980.[...]

February 10 to March 7, 2012

Very few U.S. films are as decidedly American as the comedies of Preston Sturges. Their temperament is American (pace and sweeping ideas are more important to them than tact and tastefulness). Their dialogue is American, as pointed and playful in the use of national idioms as the travel writings of Mark Twain.[...]

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COLLECTIONS

Digital Film Restoration
Probeaufnahmen zu A Little Night Music, 1977, Harold Prince

Film Museum has begun to restore endangered films from its holdings with the use of digital technology and to make the results publicly accessible.[...]

 

Special Collections

Dziga Vertov Collection
Original poster Celovek s kinoapparatom
As early as 1967, the Film Museum started to collect films, writings, photographs, posters and other documentation relating to (and created by) the Soviet filmmaking pioneer and theorist Dziga Vertov. This collection can now be researched in our online database.[...]
 

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

Schlemmer Frame Collection

The Schlemmer Frame Collection consists of 2254 nitrate film frames - mostly dating from the decade between 1910 and 1920. The collection has now been digitized and is accessibe via a visual database.[...]