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Its lesbian love interest was once modified and a saccharine ending tacked on, but a new controversy arises with G.W. Pabsts silent film classic Pandoras Box.

Restoring old films is both difficult and expensive, but well worth the price.

‘Going to the pictures is nothing to be ashamed of,’ insisted the film writer Iris Barry in 1926. But it certainly wasn’t something to be proud of, either. To the cultural cognoscenti of the 1920s, Barry admitted, the cinema was barely an art at all – about as aesthetically significant as ‘passport photography’. And for

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As x-ray technology becomes more sophisticated, hidden masterpieces are being revealed along with new insights into famous artists.

One hundred years after its original release, Erich von Stroheim’s glitteringly debauched Riviera saga is back on screen in a painstaking restoration. Ahead of its premiere at the BFI London Film Festival, we spoke to Robert Byrne, who led the project.

Letter:<strong> Brigid Peppin </strong>fills in some of the blanks surrounding the relationship between the vorticist artist and his muse Helen Saunders

Researchers discovered a long-lost Vorticist painting by Helen Saunders underneath another painting by her former friend, Wyndham Lewis.

Atlantic City by Helen Saunders discovered under Praxitella by Wyndham Lewis, who may have painted over it on purpose

Our critic’s favorite spots to see new releases (with a cocktail in hand), international revivals and cult classics on 70-millimeter film.