Images of the Day. Let me die in my footsteps: "J'accuse!"

wow

These are amazing. If ever a director was long overdue a retrospective in New York it is Abel Gance. Is Napoleon in some kind of legal limbo? That film should be being revived as often as Metropolis!

Yes, Francis Ford Coppola sends his lawyers on anyone who tries to show any of the recent (20+ years) restorations, which run 5 or 6 hours long–while his father only wrote music for 4 (which, claims Coppola, gives him rights over the film as a whole; nobody has the expense account to counter him). Kevin Brownlow has been sitting on a 6+ hour restoration (funded by the BFI) which may or may not get some showtime soon (and whether or not in the US is another question). MoMA has a 5 hour copy which they won’t even show in private screenings for scholars, so threatening is Coppola…

Actually, for a more precise discussion, check here: http://www.criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1414