Film, television and audiovisual memory — every screen, every era, every format.
Shrinking catalogues, works removed for accounting reasons and an audience buying discs again: the industry is relearning, reluctantly, that an archive is an asset.
Shrinking catalogues, works removed for accounting reasons and an audience buying discs again: the industry is relearning,…
Streaming is access; a disc is ownership. A manifesto for the right to keep the films we love — on VHS, DVD, Blu-ray or vinyl.
Bong Joon-ho’s satire climbs and descends between two families, and nobody comes out unscathed — least of all the audience.
Scanning the original negative at high resolution is not videophile luxury: it is the chance to see films of 50 or 80 years ago as…
Five seasons, a single equation: what happens when an ordinary man decides he deserves more. The answer is still the most rigorous…
In 1990 a single question — who killed Laura Palmer? — took auteur cinema into prime time and opened the door every prestige…
Bong Joon-ho’s satire climbs and descends between two families, and nobody comes out unscathed — least of all the audience.
Hitchcock’s most personal film is a magic trick in reverse: it reveals the secret halfway through and still leaves us with no…
Two decades on, the film by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund is still both a punch and a signature: a new form born of the…
Films from every era and every country: history, analysis, craft, and both Brazilian and international production.
Television taken seriously: history, language and the series that defined each era — in Brazil and worldwide.
Preservation, physical media, collecting, soundtracks, books and the economics of audiovisual memory.
South Korea · Drama, Thriller
United States · Thriller, Romance
Brazil, France · Drama, Crime
United States · Drama, Romance
Japan · Animation, Fantasy
United States, United Kingdom · Science fiction
Brazil, France · Drama
Soviet Union · Drama, Historical
United Kingdom · 1922–1976
United States · 1954–1991
United States · 1935–1991
United States · 1938–1975
Hungary · United States · 1912–1961
United States · 1930–1956
Sweden · 1932–1982
United States · 1951–1999
The archive maps which formats each work exists on — VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, 4K UHD, LaserDisc — and where to find the disc editions.