Our favorite art form is crumbling away at an alarming rate.  The world’s film heritage — barely a century old — is shriveling, disintegrating and turning to vinegar like so much cheap wine.  In a statistic quoted in this short produced by Greg Ferarra of Cinema Styles, fully eighty percent of the films made before [...]

Federico Fellini famously opined that artists have about ten good years in them, that after that, things go down hill.  This proved prophetic about his own career (perhaps it was self-fulfilling), in that his masterpieces, all but one, anyway, appeared from 1954 (La Srada) to 1963 (8½). The exception is 1974’s Amarcord, the bittersweet “reminiscence” [...]