Last week the National Society of Film Critics honored “TÁR” as the year’s best film, but it also handed out a prize that doubled as a cry for corporate investment.
One this year’s “Film Heritage Awards” recipients, Turner Classic Movies received a citation for its “rich array of programming that ranges deep and wide in the history of cinema, a service too easily taken for granted by audiences and worthy of the utmost care and attention from its corporate owners.”As an Nsfc member, I was happy to vote in favor of this award.
Few curatorial entities preserve cinema history while presenting it to a mass audience; of those, only TCM has the backing of a major media company.
That’s why fear we could lose it — and the broader efforts to preserve film history face equal peril.The economy, shaky box office, and a more somber assessment
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