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-Natalie Portman will receive the Hollywood Actress Award for her role as Jacqueline Kennedy in “Jackie” at the annual Hollywood Film Awards. Comedian James Corden will host the event, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year and takes place in Beverly Hills on November 6. Also being honored at the awards are actress Janelle Monáe, who will receive the Hollywood Spotlight Award for her breakout role in “Hidden Figures,” and the cast of the film “Gold,” including Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey, Golden Globe Award-nominated actress Bryce Dallas Howard, Golden Globe Award-nominated actor Edgar Ramirez and Golden Globe Award-winning actress Stacy Keach, all of whom will receive the Hollywood Ensemble Award.

-The African American Film Critics Association will honor Oscar-Nominated producer-director Lee Daniels with the Aafca Cinema Vanguard award at its Special Achievement Awards ceremony...

New York City’s brand-new Metrograph theater will present the world premiere of “Gems Unseen: Early Apparatus Films from Christine Vachon, Todd Haynes & Barry Ellsworth,” a two-part retrospective consisting of ten films assembled and digitally restored by IndieCollect. Vachon, Haynes, and Ellsworth will attend the premiere in early December.

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Some of the films shown in the series include “Tommy’s” by Barry Ellsworth and “Days Are Numbered” by Christine Vachon, both featuring a young Steve Buscemi; “He Was Once,” which features a special cameo performance by Todd Haynes; and “Anemone Me” by Pulitzer Prize-winner Suzan-Lori Parks.

Along with films by Apparatus Productions founders Vachon, Haynes, and Ellsworth, the series will also include a selection of films by directors they mentored, like Mary Bradford, Larry Carty, Brooke Dammkoehler, Susan Delson, Evan Dunsky, Mary Hestand, and Bruce Hainley. All the...

Last month, we shared the news that IndieCollect, an organization dedicated to improving access to the full history of independent film, had started a crowdfunding campaign to help save a handful of early Todd Haynes and Christine Vachon films. News from the campaign intensified two weeks ago when one of those Vachon titles, 1984’s “A Man in Your Room” was found as part of the campaign’s early efforts.

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The latest twist in this preservation saga features a heavy dose of Steve Buscemi, courtesy of director Barry Ellsworth. IndieCollect announced yesterday that Ellsworth recently discovered a print of “Tommy’s” an early short film of his starring a 27-year-old Buscemi. This latest addition now brings the total number of targeted films in the preservation effort to ten.

At this point, the campaign has passed its halfway mark,...

Back in June, IndieCollect, an organization which advocates for conservation of, and access to, the entire field of independent cinema, created a Kickstarter campaign to restore early Christine Vachon and Todd Haynes films and find two “lost” movies from the duo.

Now, IndieCollect has announced the they have found Vachon’s 1984 picture “A Man In Your Room.”

“Inspired by our efforts and your enthusiasm, Killer Films scoured its deep archive and – lo and behold! – discovered the prints of three films directed by Christine: ‘Days are Numbered,’ ‘The Way of the Wicked’ and a film we all thought was lost, ‘A Man In Your Room,'” Sandra Schulberg of IndieCollect said in a statement. “This means every backer getting the complete collection will be getting 9 films!”

The second film they still need to find is Haynes’ “Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud” (1985), which depicts the poet as a homosexual outlaw.

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Led by Ifp founder Sandra Schulberg, who serves as its president, the nonprofit IndieCollect is working to conserve independent cinema. In just two years, the company has rescued and archived more than 3,500 film negatives, according to Schulberg, the president of IndieCollect. IndieCollect recently located the master picture and sound elements for eight of the shorts Vachon and Haynes produced in the ’80s and ’90s with Barry Ellsworth under their non-profit Apparatus banner. Apparatus backed a number of other directors, including Suzan-Lori Parks, Mary Hestand, Susan Delson, Brooke Dammkoehler, Larry Carty, and Evan Dunsky. Now the company has launched a Kickstarter campaign with hopes of raising […]...

For as beloved as his features may be, Todd Haynes boasts a repertoire of short films no less deserving of attention — attention they might receive if they were more readily accessible. One has long been able to find Superstar and Dottie Gets Spanked with little effort, but some pieces were only recently discovered — e.g. The Suicide, found on Criterion’s Safe release; in terms of emotional effect, it makes Carol feel like an episode of Night Court — or have yet to be given a proper restoration.

Which brings us to (drum roll) a Kickstarter campaign to extensively restore and properly release eight shorts from Apparatus, a now-defunct creative house founded by Haynes and longtime creative partner Christine Vachon. Although the former’s work is not immediately on display therein, part of the $30,000 effort is to locate his 1985 Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud, “in which he depicts the poet as...

A new Kickstarter campaign has been started to revive early films from Christine Vachon and Todd Haynes. Created by IndieCollect, the campaign hopes to scan and restore the projects produced from the duo’s Apparatus banner. They are also in search for two more productions that are “lost” that they would like to find and scan. The films are Christine Vachon’s “A Man In Your Room” (1984), about a priest haunted by his desire for an impish young man and Haynes’ first film “Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud” (1985), which depicts the poet as a homosexual outlaw.

IndieCollect, which advocates for conservation of, and access to, the entire field of independent cinema, has found the master picture and sound elements for eight of the shorts Vachon and Haynes produced in the ‘80s and ‘90s with Barry Ellsworth. A couple titles that are in the collection include “Anemone Me,” “La Divina,” “Oreos With Attitude...