Pensao Globo

Daniel Kothenschulte, In: Senses of Cinema, Feb. 2006
Translation: Nick Grindells


“Film is Forever” was a slogan once used by an already ailing Hollywood industry to insist on the everlasting value of its icons. Sooner or later, however, anyone who decides to entrust their art to a chemical product as sensitive as film emulsion will notice that this is not the case. Film fades, changes, disappears. And even if one leading manufacturer now gives a 100-year warranty on its material, this doesn´t alter the fact that films, unlike marble sculptures, but not unlike ourselves, are only granted a limited time on this...