Ep. 257: The Nitrate Picture Show 2024 with David Schwartz

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Nitrate Picture Show takes place every year in Rochester, New York, at the George Eastman Museum, projecting movies from nitrate prints. The resulting super-vivid images create a movie-going experience that can be, in the words of my guest, programmer David Schwartz, “life-changing.” I asked Schwartz about some of his highlights at this increasingly popular festival, including The Good Fairy (directed by William Wyler), Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli), Intolerance (D.W. Griffith), and The Strawberry Blonde (Raoul Walsh). We also talked about films that offered something a little different such as the documentary The Plow That Broke the Plains (Pare Lorentz), the experimental parody Tomato’s Another Day (James Sibley Watson), Homecoming (Hideo Oba), and Rossellini’s Germany Year Zero. Plus: rare Lubitsch (From Mayerling to Sarajevo) and Renoir’s A Day in the Country.

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