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Rabbi Israel Seymour Dresner

Rabbi Israel Seymour Dresner

I have written Milestone blogs about many of my mentors during my 43 years in film, including Don Krim, Grant Munro, Charles Silver, Giulio Scaling...

Black Euphoria

Save the Video, Enter the Beyond — by Rai Terry

When I first became a Pathways fellow through the Association of Moving Image Archivists, I wasn’t aware of the precarity of videotape. Extremely ...

African American filmmaking

“40 Years and 19,979,520 Feet from Stardom or, the Perils of Being (Re)Discovered…” — by Fronza Woods

In late January of 2017, I got a call from a friend in London, breathless with excitement, asking me if I’d seen that day’s New York Times, because...

African American filmmaking

It’s easy to spell TRANSMAGNIFICAN DAMBAMUALITY if you know its origins!

NYU’s Dan Streible discovers the history behind Milestone’s film by Ronald Gray, Transmagnifican Dambamuality!

Alice Guy-Blaché

On the Trail of Alice Guy-Blaché in Flushing (by Joe Kennedy)

(We are thrilled to share this great dive into film history by our dear friend, Joe Kennedy) Alice Guy-Blaché, the first woman film director, an...

Brooklyn

Watching Filibus on Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal (By Tanya Goldman)

(Our pal Tanya Goldman canoed on the Gowanus Canal and sent back this wonderful blog!) A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending a singula...

Challenging the Canon as a Way to Connect to a Wider World

In 2019, Milestone co-founders Dennis Doros and Amy Heller spoke at length with New York Times writer Reggie Ugwu for a piece he was working on ab...

I know what you did Last Summer — by Faith Blackinton

Summer break is a time to go outside and enjoy the warm weather; to leave the technology alone and experience nature at its peak performance. What...

D.A. Pennebaker (1925-2019)

We didn't really know Penny and Chris (and Frazer) that well, but we loved seeing them around and working with them on Project Shirley. They were...

Araya

Instead of Smashing Icons, Film Restoration F*cks with the Canon

Courtesy of the Walker Art CenterInstead of Smashing Icons, Film Restoration F*cks with the Canon When I was 12, I discovered the word “icon...

Amy Heller

What do we do, here at Milestone?

Well, we release films, of course... but for us, distribution is a process that also entails rediscovery, restoration, and a whole lot of researc...

American Indians

Apache Skateboard’s Doug Miles brings his art and activism to the screen

More than a decade ago — shortly after Milestone released The Exiles, the great independent documentary about the lives of Native Americans in Los ...