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Film preservation

  • Sensuous, delicate, poetic: The 1978 classic from Sri Lanka that is set to make a splash at Cannes

    May 10, 2025 · 07:45 am
  • Restored ‘Ghatashraddha’ is a reminder of the ‘complex question of oppression’

    Aug 25, 2024 · 08:45 am
  • The miraculous resurrection of Nirad Mohapatra’s Odia classic ‘Maya Miriga’

    May 27, 2024 · 08:15 am
  • At Cannes, a classic Manipuri film about tradition and alienation

    May 18, 2023 · 02:02 pm
  • Why archiving matters: ‘If we don’t preserve films, we will have nothing to restore’

    Dec 03, 2022 · 09:15 am
  • Christopher Nolan’s celluloid cinema dream: ‘Film is here to stay, it’s a wonderful medium’

    Apr 01, 2018 · 10:45 am
  • How an Indian film distributor in London is helping rescue forgotten classics from obscurity

    Mar 29, 2018 · 07:30 pm
  • With rare photos and letters, a web archive is piecing together the life of film historian BD Garga

    Feb 11, 2018 · 09:15 am
  • Lost, found and archived: BD Garga’s quest to document Indian cinema has helped us all

    Mar 13, 2017 · 01:30 pm
  • National film archive adds Ritwik Ghatak’s uncompleted works to its collection

    Dec 24, 2016 · 12:00 pm
  • How the lone surviving print of PC Barua’s ‘Devdas’ was lost and (sort of) found

    Feb 27, 2016 · 11:22 am
  • In February, a new private-public partnership to preserve our cinematic heritage

    Jan 09, 2016 · 09:30 am
  • How Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy survived fire, decay and neglect to re-emerge anew

    Feb 25, 2015 · 07:30 am