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Where can you find films from directors like Chantal Akerman and Ida Lupino, paired off with masterworks from the likes of Jackie Chan and Rainer Werner Fassbinder? No, I’m not talking about your local library, instead that just happens to be four of the names attached to this year’s edition of To Save And Project, MoMA’s long running festival of newly preserved motion pictures.

Now in its 15th and arguably one of its strongest season, To Save and Project returns with a lineup that spans genres, decades and subjects. Running January 18-February 1, the festival focuses on newly restored films, with restorations come from MoMA themselves all the way to major studios like Paramount. Split between two theaters and running just about half a month, this lineup is dense and features some truly startling discoveries.

One of those discoveries comes from The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project...

Brewviews Cinema Pub in Salt Lake City was just fined $1,627 by Utah's liquor-control commissioners for screening "The Hangover: Part II" inside the bar. The crime was showing a film that contains sex acts and full frontal nudity. The penalty was $400 more than a penalty a restaurant would receive for serving alcohol to a minor. The decision to fine the bar was based on a complaint by a strip club that it had been cited for sexually explicit violations while Brewvies was getting away with showing equally explicit films. "We had no choice but to cite Brewvies because liquor is served there," said liquor enforcement spokesperson Dwayne Baird.Assistant Attorney General Sheila Page acknowledged that regular Salt Lake City theaters played the film during its theatrical run, but those theaters are alcohol-free and do not fall under Utah.s liquor statutes. Meanwhile the newly appointed commissioner is having trouble justifying the law.