Martin Scorsese Hosts Free Virtual Screenings of Restored Cinema Classics
BY SCOTTIE KNOLLIN
The Film Foundation, the non-profit organization created by Martin Scorsese to preserve cinema, is hosting free screenings of restored cinema classics in the Restoration Screening Room, a new virtual theater. Presentations will take place within a 24-hour window on the second Monday of each month, along with Special Features about the films and their restoration process.
The Film Foundation was created in 1990 by Scorsese to protect and preserve motion picture history. The foundation works in partnership with archives and studios and has restore over 900 films to date. All films are accessible to the public through programming at festival, archives and repertory theatres around the world. The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project has restored 47 films from 27 countries representing the diversity of world cinema. Additionally, the foundation’s free educational curriculum, The Story of Movies, teaches young people about film language and history. Over 10 million young peoiple have accessed the curriculum to date.
Access each screening here.
February 13 - The River
1951; Dir. Jean Renoir
Synopsis: “The growing pains of three young women contrast with the immutability of the holy Bengal River, around which their daily lives unfold.”
March 13 - Caught
1949; Dir. Max Ophüls
Synopsis: “An ambitious young LA department store model gets her wish of marrying a millionaire but she eventually discovers that rich life isn't always a happy one.”
March 13 - Force of Evil
1948; Dir. Abraham Polonsky
Synopsis: “An unethical lawyer who wants to help his older brother becomes a partner with a client in the numbers racket.”
April 10 - Prisoneros de la tierra
1939; Dir. Mario Soffici
Synopsis: “By 1915, a contractor traveling to Posadas looking for new staff. Among the music and drinks in a bar and shipped to the mill. He is accompanied by a drunken doctor and his daughter. In the mill, injustices and cruelties are accentuated.”
May 8 - Stella Dallas
1925; Dir. Henry King
Synopsis: “Small-town girl Stella marries socialite Stephen Dallas, a man with whom she has nothing in common.”
