BPS 331: Can Martin Scorsese Save Cinema? with Margaret Bodde

Margaret Bodde is the executive director of The Film Foundation,
the non-profit organization created by Martin Scorsese in 1990
dedicated to the preservation and protection of motion pictures.
Working in partnership with the archives and studios, TFF has
preserved and restored over 925 films, including 49 restorations
from 28 countries as part of the World Cinema Project.

TFF educates young people about the visual language of film through
its cinema literacy program, The Story of Movies. In addition,
Bodde is the award-winning producer of several of Scorsese’s
documentaries."Our American artistic heritage has to be preserved
and shared by all of us. Just as we’ve learned to take pride in our
poets and writers, in jazz and the blues, we need to take pride in
our cinema, our great American art form.” - Martin Scorsese,
Founder and Chair The Film Foundation, the non-profit organization
created by Martin Scorsese to preserve cinema, invites you to come
together for a series of beautifully restored films in the
Restoration Screening Room, our new virtual theater, available
through any web browser.

Presentations will take place within a 24-hour window on the second
Monday of each month, along with Special Features about the films
and their restoration process. Monthly programming will encompass a
broad array of restorations, including classic and independent
films, documentaries, and silent films from around the world.The
next free screening is August 8th. They will be playing an amazing
Film Noir double feature.

Arthur Ripley's 1946 classic The Chase and Edgar G. Ulmer's 1945
masterpiece Detour. Margaret is also a producer, known for Rolling
Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019), The 50
Year Argument (2014), Public Speaking (2010), George Harrison:
Living in the Material World (2011), No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
(2005), and the PBS 7-part series The Blues (2003).


Please enjoy my conversation with Margaret Bodde.

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