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International Film Buffs Should Pounce on MoMA’s To Save and Project Festival
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International Film Buffs Should Pounce on MoMA’s To Save and Project Festival

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 / 8 January 2025

From silent classics to Thai melodrama, home movies to Brazilian sambas, MoMA’s To Save and Project festival is catnip for international film buffs.

Films from the Long War: ‘Their Finest Hour’ Offers Five British WWII Classics
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Films from the Long War: ‘Their Finest Hour’ Offers Five British WWII Classics

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 / 19 May 2020

These WWII films from directors Alberto Cavalcanti, Guy Hamilton, Michael Anderson, Leslie Norman and J. Lee Thomson are excellent studies in history, filmmaking, and wartime propaganda.

‘Dead of Night’ Haunts Above and Beyond Its Imitators
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‘Dead of Night’ Haunts Above and Beyond Its Imitators

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 / 21 November 2019

Film anthology Dead of Night's influence went far beyond what its creators must have imagined.