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📬 August 2026 Milestone Newsletter
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Restoring and distributing "lost" films outside the Hollywood mainstream since 1990. We mess with the canon. Amy Heller and Dennis Doros, founders. www.milestonefilms.com
We are particularly happy that Missing Movies will have a benefit screening at Film at Lincoln Center featuring two films of Jersey Noir, Maggie Greenwald's The Kill-Off and Stacy Cochran's My New Gun! www.filmlinc.org/films/the-ki...
Missing Movies Double Feature: The Kill-Off + My New Gun
Join Film at Lincoln Center for a 2-for-1 35mm double feature of the seminal New Jersey–set noirs, The Kill-Off and My New Gun, as well as a panel discussion with Greenwald, Cochran, and other members...
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Featuring our friend and animator John Canemaker, New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is opening an expansive exhibition tracing a century of animation through original production artwork, films, and other materials from its collection. www.cartoonbrew.com/museums/moma...
MoMA Opens ‘It’s Alive!’ Century Of Animation Exhibition
More than 200 works from Winsor McCay, Sally Cruikshank, Tissa David, the Hubleys, and others will be displayed through summer 2027.
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"But mostly “[Ornette] Made in America” (shot by the great Ed Lachman) is a joyous film, a documentary devoted to finding its own sound." - Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times archive.ph/vjQU8
Telling Pictures's (Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman) amazing Oscar-winning documentary on the AIDS quilt, COMMON THREADS, is playing in NYC this August 1-5. It is an incredible film that you must see! www.paristheaternyc.com/film/common-...
Paris Theater - Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
Restorations from the Academy Film Archive | Co-presented by the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
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"Few American films, and few films in general, feel as tightly composed and alive as Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep." @criterion.bsky.social @kinolorber.com spectrumculture.com/2026/07/20/r...
Revisit: Killer of Sheep - Spectrum Culture
Few American films, and few films in general, feel as tightly composed and alive as Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep, which is not only amazingly cohesive for a debut but doubly so for one strung tog...
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An interview with the fabulous Pamela Hutchinson on Queen Kelly! bit.ly/4fiiHuj
Pamela Hutchinson on THE CURSE OF QUEEN KELLY
https://notesonfilm1.com/2026/07/16/pamela-hutchinson-on-the-curse-of-queen-kelly-new-york-sticking-place-books-2025/ “A naughty little number” This is a story of how not to make a film. A story about
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Melbourne International Film Festival 2026: eight must-see films Portrait of Jason with Milestone's Maya Cade in Attendance! Director: Shirley Clark @AcademyFilmArchive, @Kino Lorber www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
Melbourne international film festival 2026: eight must-see films, one TV show and an ‘astonishing’ VR experience
Our picks include a hard-hitting drama starring Channing Tatum, a new Australian dramedy featuring Hugo Weaving and The Pitt’s Shabana Azeez, plus a film from a chook’s eye-view
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10 of Roger Ebert’s Favorite Movies About America: KILLER OF SHEEP “In this poetic film about a family in Watts, [Burnett] observes the quiet nobility of lives lived with values but without opportunities.” www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/...
10 of Roger Ebert's Favorite Movies About America
For America's 250th birthday, we look back on Roger's thoughts about some of the most significant movies about the American experience, for good or ill.
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NEW YORK TIMES: What Is the Definitive Movie About America? Ten writers on the films that get at the hopes, dreams, heartbreak and hilarity of the U.S.A. as it turns 250. "With one indelible film, Burnett invokes American history and makes it." - Manohla Dargis on KILLER OF SHEEP
When it's too hot to go outside, come and read Milestone's hot July newsletter! mailchi.mp/milestonefil...
Milestone in July: 🎉 saluting filmmakers, friends, & cinephiles!
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Congrats to the fabulous May Hong HaDuong on being honored with the Vittorio Boarini Award at Il Cinema Ritrovato! @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/insights/...
The Vittorio Boarini Award to May Hong HaDuong
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To mark Juneteenth, Maya S. Cade chairs a roundtable of Black independent filmmakers in conversation: Ayoka Chenzira, Bridgett M. Davis and Wendell B. Harris, Jr. reflect on the life and afterlife of seemingly succeeding in Hollywood. letterboxd.com/journal/ayok...
Models of Hope: Ayoka Chenzira, Wendell B. Harris, Jr. and Bridgett M. Davis on “making it” as Black independent filmmakers • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
To mark Juneteenth, Maya S. Cade chairs a roundtable of Black independent filmmakers in conversation: Ayoka Chenzira, Bridgett M. Davis and Wendell B. Harris, Jr. reflect on the life and afterlife of...
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"...All of these beautiful young people reviewing Naked Acts on Letterbox kept asking, Why didn’t you make another film? It became clear that people may actually want to hear more from me.” deadline.com/2026/06/brid...
Bridgett M. Davis Returns To Filmmaking With ‘Helga’
Bridgett M. Davis is the writer-director behind 'Naked Acts'.
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In 1916, she starred in The Dumb Girl of Portici, directed by Lois Weber, one of the pioneers of American filmmaking...Anna Pavlova became one of the first artists in history to leave behind not merely still images, but movement itself. miscelana.com/2026/06/15/h...
How Cinema Helped Anna Pavlova Defy Time
The 145th anniversary of the ballerina reveals an unexpected bond with cinema
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An interview with Milestone's Maya Cade. "I am now, especially in the last few years, trying to move away from awareness toward making knowledge tangible, to make it something that people carry with themselves." www.rogerebert.com/black-writer...
To Make People Aware of Something is Great: A Conversation with Maya Cade
An interview with the brilliant Maya Cade, the pioneer behind the Black Film Archive.
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"Jason’s reminiscences of his performative behaviors and tales of exploitation - of being used and using others in return - become the film’s dramatic thesis as the camera and crew shift from indulging to interrogating him." thefilmexperience.net/blog/2026/6/...
It's a Pride Party!: "Portrait of Jason" (1967) - Blog - The Film Experience
by Joanna Sodeman-Taylor Hello everybody! It’s been a minute since I’ve p...
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Milestone mourns the passing of David Hockney. We are still amazed that we have a film he directed and that we got to meet him at the restoration premiere. A DAY ON THE GRAND CANAL WITH THE EMPEROR OF CHINA (produced by our dear friend Philip Haas) is still one of our favorite films.
Lotte Reiniger's The Adventures of Prince Achmed was released a century ago in 1926. This stop-motion classic makes her "a key figure in the history of cinema". www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
'She beat Disney by a decade': How a 26-year-old German woman made the world's oldest animated feature film
German director Lotte Reiniger's The Adventures of Prince Achmed was released a century ago in 1926 – and now stands as the world's oldest animated feature film
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Milestone's June Newsletter! Bridgett Davis is making a new film!, Milestone's three films at the 50th @framelinefest, a Missing Movies benefit screening, and a few of our favorite scenes! mailchi.mp/milestonefil...
Amy and Dennis talking about Queen Kelly, New England Public Media, May 18, 2026 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P1A...
May 18, 2026: Queen Kelly's notes
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What will this Queen Kelly be like? Who knows—but the prospects are tantalizing. 48hills.org/2026/05/scre...
Screen Grabs: Silent Film Fest returns to its ancestral home - 48 hills
Back to the Castro with plenty of rarities and gems. Plus: Tap into Ovid for a wacky 1974 Lithuanian rock opera and more.
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Coming to the Castro this week! Gloria Swanson in Queen Kelly and the world premiere of The Humming Bird! San Francisco Silent Film Festival. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
JFK’s dad bankrolled an unhinged silent film. Here’s how to get tickets to a rare screening
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival opens with “Queen Kelly” as it returns to the restored Castro Theatre for its 30th anniversary with a standout lineup.
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Read Milestone's May 2026 Newsletter out today! The Queen of the Castro and more! mailchi.mp/milestonefil...
A Queen 👸 at the Castro! 🌈
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Our two friends Pamela Hutchinson and Bridgett M. Davis on BCC Radio talking about the subject of nudity in film. www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
BBC Audio | Screenshot | Nudity
Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode explore nudity on screen.
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Director Watch Podcast Ep. 151 - 'The Annihilation of Fish' (Burnett, 1999) awardswatch.com/director-wat...
AwardsWatch - Director Watch Podcast Ep. 151 – ‘The Annihilation of Fish’ (Burnett, 1999)
On episode 151 of the Director Watch Podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter discuss the last film in their Charles Burnett series, The Annihilation of Fish (1999). Welcome back to Directo…
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The Film That Explains Contemporary America The Sorrow and the Pity has lessons for how authoritarianism takes root—and how to fight against it. By David A. Graham www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Film That Explains Contemporary America
“The Sorrow and the Pity” has lessons for how authoritarianism takes root—and how to fight against it.
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The best way to see @milestonefilms.bsky.social QUEEN KELLY is on the big screen. Even better, on the glorious screen of the Castro with Eli Denson conducting his beautiful new score on the opening night of San Francisco Silent Film Festival this May. silentfilm.org/event/queen-...
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