Film Is Dead. Long Live Film!

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Film Is Dead. Long Live Film!

2024

1h 42m

Documentary

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Exploring the vanishing world of private film collecting, an obsessive, secretive and often illicit world of basement vaults. Passionate cinephiles are devoted to the rescue and preservation of forgotten reels.

Pam Grady

San Francisco Chronicle

06/03/2024

It becomes apparent how much film and television history would have simply disappeared without the passion of the collectors to which this documentary pays homage.

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Theodoor Steen

ScreenAnarchy

12/30/2024

Makes a grand case for the legacy of collectors, showing his subjects in a complex, nuanced and truly human way. ... By actively acknowledging the complexities of film collecting, and those who collect, Flynn lands on something truly profound.

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Bill Arceneaux

Moviegoing with Bill

05/31/2024

3.5/5

There’s plenty of thoughtfulness and more than enough life given to the movie through the subjects found and the collections offered.

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Peg Aloi

Arts Fuse

05/09/2024

As thrilling as the stories of rescued footage are, the tales of what has been lost or willfully destroyed are harrowing.

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Laura Clifford

Reeling Reviews

04/30/2024

A-

made me nostalgic for the early days of Reeling when one of our crew members, a collector himself, would screen film prints in his dusty old basement, friends crammed together on old kitchen chairs amidst rusty tools and cans of paint.

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Robin C

@RT60448208 05/08/2024

“Film Is Dead. Long Live Film!” is the vindication for all of those collectors who lived their solitary lives for one thing – collecting movies.

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Exploring the vanishing world of private film collecting, an obsessive, secretive and often illicit world of basement vaults. Passionate cinephiles are devoted to the rescue and preservation of forgotten reels.

Director: Peter Flynn
Producer: Peter Flynn
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 28, 2024, Limited
Runtime: 1h 42m