Film History Archives - Bright Lights Film Journal

a Film History Archives - Bright Lights Film Journal

Category: Film History

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Silent Screens, Digital Dreams: Experiencing Pordenone Online

December 27, 2025

The online program emphasizes this living quality of film history. Each restoration carries its own provenance, its own narrative of survival. * * * October finds audience viewing habits leaning[…]

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A Cinephile’s Paradise: The Quirky Education of a Film Scholar – Joseph McBride, in conversation with Danny Peary

November 21, 2025

Joseph McBride, filmed in 1970, is taking notes on his wrist, a habit he picked up while reviewing films, in his role as the critic and historian Mister Pister in[…]

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