Serge Bromberg’s Retour de Flamme: A Presentation of Wondrous New Discoveries.

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Held on Sat, Nov 15, 2014, 5:00 p.m.

Introduced by Serge Bromberg

MoMA, Floor T2, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

Tit for Tat!. 1906. France. Directed by Gaston Velle. In Serge Bromberg’s Retour de Flamme. Courtesy Lobster Films

Serge Bromberg’s Retour de Flamme: A Presentation of Wondrous New Discoveries. 70 min.

Serge Bromberg, the founder of Lobster Films in Paris, is a true impresario: a huntsman who salvages lost classics and curiosities of cinema from attics, flea markets, and other serendipitous places; a conservator who collaborates with archives, foundations, studios, and festivals worldwide to restore these films; and a born showman who, through his now-famous Retour de Flamme (Saved from the flames) presentations, makes moviegoing a thing of wonder and excitement again. This year’s program, which Bromberg also accompanies on piano, features discoveries that he and other dogged film enthusiasts have recently made, including a previously unknown version of Buster Keaton’s The Blacksmith (1922) that the archivist and historian Fernando Martin Peña unearthed in Argentina. Special thanks to the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

This film accompanies To Save and Project: The 12th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation.

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