Film Restoration

HFPA President Meher Tatna, with Festival Lumière director Thierry Frémeaux, introduces The Red Shoes to the audience on day two of the festival in Lyon, France. The masterpiece by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger was restored by the UCLA Film Archives with financing from an HFPA grant.

The Bigamist (1953), a film noir restored with funding provided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, anchors a celebration of the 100 years anniversary of legendary actress and director Ida Lupino (1918-1995): Hard, Fast and Beautiful : The Films of Ida Lupino, which showcases six of her films, shown at the Billy Wilder Theater. They are all typical Lupino, tackling and exposing the dark underside of American society in the midpoint of the 20th century.

 STEVEN SPIELBERG AND CHRISTOPHER NOLAN JOINED THE HOLLYWOOD FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION, THE FILM FOUNDATION AND THE AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE TO CELEBRATE THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THEGOLDEN GLOBE® AWARDS WITH RESTORED CLASSIC FILMS SCREENING SERIES AT THE EGYPTIAN THEATRE HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (Sept.

Steven Spielberg and Christopher Nolan introduced special screenings of films restored thanks to Hollywood Foreign Press Association grants at the American Cinematheque. The program was presented jointly with the Film Foundation as part of the events celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Golden Globe Awards.

  THE HOLLYWOOD FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION, THE FILM FOUNDATION, AND THE AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE TO CELEBRATE THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS WITH RESTORED CLASSIC FILMS SCREENING SERIES AT THE EGYPTIAN THEATRE TITLES INCLUDE “THE RED SHOES,” “A FACE IN THE CROWD,” “COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN,” “DEATH OF A SALESMAN,” AND “THE APU TRILOGY”   HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (Sept.

On a recent evening an unusual cinematic event took place in Hollywood thanks to a generous $350,000 grant given by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to the American Cinematheque - for the first time in more than half a century, movie enthusiasts watched a public projection of a film made of a dangerous and explosive material, nitrate. Today nitrate is an obscure material, in little use.

Joan Blondell, two times Golden Globe nominee, will be celebrated in a five-week series of screenings, with 14 of her movies being shown at the Billy Wilder Theater of the Hammer Museum in Westwood, Los Angeles, starting om Friday, November 4.   The movies were restored by the University of California Los Angeles Film Archives, one of the leading film restoration institutions in the world, and a frequent recipient of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's restoration grants.

 “The scalding story of a moral trespass!”   That is certainly an intriguing tagline on a movie poster. And in April 1960, titillated audiences could check out for themselves what is was all about by buying a ticket to Private Property, the directorial debut of Leslie Stevens, a one time protégé of Orson Welles and playwright.

In a personal letter to HFPA President Theo Kingma, Martin Scorsese, the founder and chairman of the Film Foundation, thanked the HFPA for supporting the restoration of classic films through generous funds. Because of your passionate commitment, writes Mr Scorsese, future generations will experience a wealth of cinematic treasures that would otherwise have been lost.