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"Forgotten Silver"
1996
Directed by Peter Jackson / Costa Botes
In this insidiously
funny yet utterly believable mockumentary, director Peter Jackson (Heavenly
Creatures) discovers a cache of ancient nitrate in a neighbor's shed
and realizes it is an extraordinary collection of films directed by Colin
McKenzie, film pioneer and inventor extraordinaire in early 1900's New
Zealand. Combining interviews with real people like actor Sam Neill, film
critic Leonard Maltin and Miramax Chairman Harvey Weinstein, Forgotten
Silver is "a gleeful, charming, tongue-in-cheek jest that is cleverly
conceived and exceptionally well executed" (Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles
Times).
70 minutes.
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