Special Report: Film Is Dead! Long Live Film! (2024)

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Tv & Film, Film Interviews, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Frequent Projection Booth co-host Peter Flynn is back to talk about his latest documentary, Film Is Dead! Long Live Film! It's a loving look at film collectors and preservationists and a terrific companion to his earlier film, The Dying of the Light (2015).

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.0	Shut it off.
0:25.5	Turn it off.
0:27.6	Turn it off.
0:31.5	Andrew!
0:32.3	Yeah! Welcome to my nightmare.
0:50.7	Oh man, this is embarrassing.
0:54.1	The complete history of film just doesn't exist.
0:58.0	Basically, everybody threw that history away.
1:01.0	And as collectors like me that jumped into the bins, garbage cans, started collecting stuff,
1:07.0	and then when people started saying, hey, what happened to this film?
1:10.0	Somebody in the woodwork had it.
1:16.3	Let me give you my theory on film collectors of my generation, which is admittedly most collectors.
1:22.8	We've handled film for so long and its molecules have become fused with ours.
1:28.9	We've become part film.
1:31.0	As a matter of fact, we've become movie monsters.
1:34.2	And that's really what film collecting is.
1:36.4	One long monster movie.
1:40.7	We're all little kids who just love the magic of that image being shot out of a projector
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