"Unbelievable Power", por David Lynch

That whole experience was exciting, and we were working on the film right up to the very end, that's for sure. Duwayne [Dunham] and I went into the screening room really late on the night before WILD AT HEART screened, and you go up this ladder into the projection room and the projectors they have are like from a Russian science-fiction film. They're huge, and we were running a dual system, picture and sound separate, full-coat mag analog, and this mag held so much smooth power. Unbelievable power.

It's rare now for people to get the chance to see a good print of a film projected right, and that's a real shame.

As impressões de David Lynch sobre a projecção de WILD AT HEART no Festival de Cannes de 1990, in Room to Dream, David Lynch e Kristine McKenna (2018, Canongate Books).

[Imagem: Metrograph].

In Search of Lost Films

It is one of the most astonishing facts of cinema history: an extraordinary number of important films are believed to be lost forever. Spanning from the early days of the silent movies to as late as the 1970s and touching all corners of the global film experience, groundbreaking works of significant historical and artistic importance are gone. Cinema icons including Orson Welles, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Oscar Micheaux and Vincente Minnelli are among those impacted by this tragedy, and pioneering technological achievements in color cinematography, sound film technology, animation and widescreen projection are among the lost treasures.

How could this happen? And is it possible to recover these missing gems?

• Entrevista com o autor, Phil Hall, na Metro.
• Excerto do livro na IndieWire.
• Amazon.com