![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kehr graciously agreed to answer my questions about Fox Film, MoMA’s nitrate holdings, the museum’s new streaming platform, and what it takes to get films on there.įirst off, tell me a little about MoMA’s Virtual Cinema streaming platform.ĭave Kehr: Well, this was something we started in response to the pandemic. After watching these wonderful films, streaming until May 20, I wanted to know more. Even better, the beauty and sophistication of these films shine in 4K digital reproductions of MoMA’s own nitrate prints. It was a heartening sign for cinephiles when Dave Kehr, a curator in MoMA’s Department of Film, announced that a trio of pre-Code Fox rarities would be streaming on MoMA’s Virtual Cinema (available to MoMA members in the U.S.). Would our niche dollars matter to a corporate behemoth? Like many classic film fans, I was concerned about what the merger would mean for Fox’s vibrant swath of film history and our access to it. In 2019 a massive merger gave Disney control over Fox’s library. Comparatively few have made it to DVD or Blu-ray. ![]() However, movies made by Fox in the early 1930s rarely turn up on TCM. Rare Fox films-ranging from the bizarrely poignant sci-fi diplomatic thriller Six Hours to Live to the silly yet sultry tropical melodrama The Painted Woman to the pert, frothy Lillian Harvey musical My Weakness-top my personal list of “I sure wish I could see that again.”įox pre-Codes pushed the envelope with a panache and inventiveness that matched and often surpassed what other studios were doing at the time. As I’ve attended film festivals over the years, Fox movies from the early 1930s have surprised and intrigued me. ![]()
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