We are AMIA!
By Dennis Doros, Co-owner of Milestone and President of AMIA My first trip to the Association of Moving Image Archivists was in Bethesda, Maryland...
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bernie sanders
Six years later — All employers should still “Pay up!”
Way back in May 2012 I wrote and posted a blog on this website entitled “Pay Up!” In that essay I argued that people should get paid for working. ...
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Austin Renna
Recreating titles for a 1915 film — Milestone intern, Austin Renna reports
Milestone summer interns Luyao Ma and Austin Renna Having just graduated college and completed internships at The Criterion Collection, Janus Film...
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adventures of prince achmed
Journalist Susan Stone on learning A LOT about Lotte Reiniger
I’d heard about Lotte Reiniger and seen stills and clips from her films, but I didn’t know the whole story of this fantastic animation pioneer. So...
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commentary track
Film scholar Linda Ehrlich on creating a commentary track for Maborosi
Linda Ehrlich with Milestone designer and former intern, Lauren Caddick You have to love a film to watch it more than 10 times while writing and r...
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Design
Artist and Designer Lauren Caddick on creating the original artwork for the re-release of “Rocco and His Brothers”
When Milestone called and asked me to design the poster for Rocco and His Brothers, I was humbled and excited. The opportunity to work on a fil...
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Amy Heller
Friends and Films, Old and New in Ashland!
Last month, Dennis and I were excited to be invited to the Ashland Independent Film Festival in southern Oregon. Neither of us had ...
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Americorps
Maia’s Quarter-Life Crisis
[Note from Milestone: This blog is by the our dear friend and intern, the inimitable Maia Krivoruk. We first met Maia when she was a five-year-ol...
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American Indians
“Legacy of Exiled NDNZ” and the film that inspired my work — a guest blog by Pamela J. Peters
In 2008, I first saw Kent Mackenzie’s film The Exiles (1961). It is a neorealist film that showcases a true depiction of American Indians living i...
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Sherman Alexie
“Thing is, I don’t believe in ghosts. But I see them all the time.”
We first “met” Sherman Alexie in 2007 — on the Milestone office answering machine. We had been preparing the press kit for Kent Mackenzie’s Nat...
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Aaron Payne
Celebrating our rich and surprising history in George Chauncey’s groundbreaking “GAY NEW YORK”
As Milestone audiences probably know, when we prepare to restore and/or release a film, we really “do our homework.” Frankly, research is one of t...
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Bainbridge Island
A wonderful guest post from Tova Gannana on Losing Ground
We are delighted to share this essay from Tova Gannana, poet, film curator and essayist. Her poem “Rabin” was published in the Israeli National New...
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An article on Project Shirley for Il Cinema Ritrovato DVD Awards
From Il Cinema Ritrovato's website We have been submitting our releases to Il Cinema Ritrovato DVD Awards for many years. Milestone is a company...
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