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January 8 to February 8, 2010

The Austrian Film Museum presents an in-depth look at the Commedia all’italiana. Comprising 34 works (including thirteen by Dino Risi), the series is a continuation and elaboration of last year’s major retrospective on the Italian cinema of the 1960s.[...]

February 10 to 28, 2010

Beginning in the early 1930s and continuing for a quarter-century, Mexico was home to one of the world’s most colorful and diverse film cultures. The Film Museum retrospective offers a rare glimpse at the singular beauty of this film culture and the genius of its masters - such as the enigmatic Emilio ‘El Indio‘ Fernández who is represented by five films.[...]

February 18 to March 4, 2010

Elia Kazan was one of the most admired and controversial directors of American postwar cinema and theatre. As one of the co-founders of New York’s Actors Studio Kazan brought a new style of acting to the screen, influenced by the Stanislavsky method.[...]

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Special Collections

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.
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SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

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.[...]