Two-Lane Blacktop, 1971, Monte Hellman (Quelle: The Criterion Collection)

August 27 to Ocotber 6, 2010

This first major Film Museum program following the summer break is dedicated to the intimate relationship between “automobility” and cinema. The selection of 50 features and shorts is framed by American car culture and a wider historical perspective on what is commonly called the genre of Road movies.[...]

September 22 to October 6, 2010

Ten outstanding documentary films from Austria, made between 1979 and 2006, selected and presented by ten curators from Austria and abroad - with this attenuated portrait of a rich film culture the Austrian Documentary Film Association dok.at celebrates its ten-year anniversary.[...]

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October 2010 Eric Rohmer
November 2010 D.W. Griffith, Robert Beavers
December 2010 Howard Hawks

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Special Collections

Dziga Vertov Collection
Original poster "Celovek s kinoapparatom" by Georgij and Vladimir Stenberg

As early as 1967, the Film Museum started to collect films, writings, photo-
graphs, pos-
ters 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, which also serves as an invitation for other institutions to collect information about further Vertov-related materials.[...]
 

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

Schlemmer Frame Collection
Schlemmer Frame Collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This Special Collection consists of 2254 nitrate film frames - mostly dating from the decade between 1910 and 1920. A private collector had excerpted these images from film prints and arranged them in a highly personal manner, using 67 semi-transparent envelopes as the format for his "curatorial" endeavour. The collection has now been digitized and is accessibe via a visual database.[...]