Warner Bros. Discovery CEO and President David Zaslav joined Steven Spielberg and Paul Thomas Anderson to tout another area close to his heart of the studio, the importance of restoring and preserving Warner Bros. rich legacy of film classics
“I’m a fan just like you. If I wasn’t here, I would be sitting with you,” he told the packed audience at the TCL Chinese IMAX theatre. “I watch Turner Classic Movies all the time. It’s the history of our country, the motion pictures. There’s no other medium where you come together. Most of the things we do, we do alone, but you go to the theater with a friend. There are people around you. The lights go out. And it’s magic.
Spielberg and Anderson are both on the board of The Film Foundation, the organization founded by Martin Scorsese that is dedicated to the restoration and preservation of movies. In conjunction with TFF and TCM, Warners is restoring ten of their classics includingthe 1959 Howard Hawks western which opened the TCM Fest last night with the world premiere of its 4K restoration . There is also Elia Kazan’s 1955with James Dean in the first of his three films for Warner Bros.
Anderson took it a step further and put it in even a more personal way. “Sometimes it goes even beyond the history of the business… it starts to end up being the protection of memories, like very, very important memories that we each individually have. ‘Where was I when I saw?’ I remember very well, and I remember the friends I was with, and I remember who I took to see that film as much as I remember the film,” he said. “Yes, it’s the preservation of our work.
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