Digging for Gold: To Save and Project: The 17th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation Tanner Tafelski April 2020 Festival Reports In a city bursting with monthly repertory programming, the Museum of Modern Art’s To Save and Project series stands out as an annual must-attend event for cinephiles. Curators Dave Kehr, Katie Trainor and Ron M...
The Marginal and the Misplaced: To Save and Project: The 16th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation Tanner Tafelski March 2019 Festival Reports In this day and age, to watch an older movie, or really any movie, is to watch a digital copy – a file code made up of ones and zeros. That is to say, unless you’re living in a city with a thriving and dedicate...
Straight Shooting: Joel and Ethan Coen’s True Grit (2010) Tanner Tafelski March 2017 CTEQ Annotations on Film True Grit (2010) sticks out in Joel and Ethan Coen’s body of work. It’s a black sheep. They leech the film of irony and nihilism. They dial down their condescension of and cruelty towards their characters. They...
Dream Baby Dream: Robert Altman’s 3 Women (1977) Tanner Tafelski March 2016 CTEQ Annotations on Film “I had a dream last night,” says a boy. “We had the same dream,” an oddly similar voice replies. Renowned ambient musician, Geir Jensen, using the moniker of Biosphere, loops this exchange in his spectral and c...
