Boogie Nights and TWBB should definitely be preserved in the National Film Registry. Two of the best films in the last 30 years, easily imo

Watching this again, knowing that Zaslav and his team would try to gut this network - and probably already knew it while he was sitting on that stage - grosses me out, man.

Great vid, was not expecting the David Zaslav jump scare.

Steven Spielberg’s my second favorite director; Ishiro Honda’s my first. Ishiro Honda & Akira Ifukube were the Steven Spielberg & John Williams of Japan from 1954-1975. Fun fact: Steven Spielberg cited Ishiro Honda’s original Godzilla film as the main inspiration for the dinosaurs in the original Jurassic Park film. And from 1965-1995, Akira Ifukube and John Williams battled each other (with Williams earning his five Oscar wins and several other nominations in that timespan [see below for list of films]). Another fun fact: John Williams cited Akira Ifukube (amongst others) as inspirations for becoming a composer. And another fun fact: Akira Ifukube died on February 8th 2006 at age 91 (which was on John Williams’ then-74th birthday) 1965 (THE START!): Ifukube scored Frankenstein Conquers the World & Invasion of the Astro-Monster and Williams scored Frank Sinatra’s None But The Brave 1966: Ifukube scored War of the Gargantuas and Williams scored The Rare Breed 1967: Ifukube scored King Kong Escapes and Williams scored Valley of the Dolls (Williams’ first ever Oscar nomination) 1968: Ifukube scored The Snow Woman & Destroy All Monsters and Williams scored Heidi (Williams won his first Emmy) 1969: Ifukube scored Latitude Zero and Williams scored Goodbye Mr. Chips & The Reivers (Williams was Oscar-nominated for both films) 1970: Ifukube scored Space Amoeba and Williams scored Jane Eyre (Williams won his second Emmy) 1972: Ifukube scored Godzilla vs. Gigan and Williams scored The Cowboys & The Poseidon Adventure (Williams was Oscar-nominated for the latter) 1975 (THE BIG YEAR!): Ifukube scored Honda’s Terror of MechaGodzilla [Honda’s final film before retirement, as well as Ifukube’s final film score until 1991] and Williams scored Spielberg’s Jaws (Williams’ second Oscar win [as well as a Golden Globe and a Grammy]) 1991: Ifukube scored Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (his first film score since Terror of MechaGodzilla) and Williams scored Hook & JFK (Williams was Oscar-nominated for both films) 1992: Ifukube scored Godzilla vs. Mothra (Honda visited the set shortly before his 1993 death) and Williams scored Far And Away & Home Alone 2: Lost in New York 1993: Ifukube scored Godzilla vs. MechaGodzilla II (he and Toho Studios dedicated the film to Honda’s memory) and Williams scored Jurassic Park & Schindler’s List (the latter is Williams’ fifth and [so far] final Oscar win [along with both another Golden Globe and Grammy], and Spielberg cited Honda’s original Godzilla film as inspiration for the dinosaurs in the former) 1995 (THE FINALE!): Ifukube scored Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (his final film score before his 2006 death [though Ifukube’s various kaiju themes still continue to be reused by Toho Studios in various Godzilla films]) and Williams scored Sabrina & Nixon (Williams was Oscar-nominated for both films)

I love to see two of the greatest directors ever, Steven Spielberg and Paul Thomas Anderson working hard to keep cinematic history preserved. And I really appreciate that Warner-Discovery CEO David Zaslav is as enthusiastic about the Rescue Operation of Films and specifically all the wonderful films of the Warner Bros library. I really appreciate that this collective party has restored Rio Bravo and East Of Eden, two of my all-time favorite movies. I also appreciate that David Zaslav gave a shout out to some of Warner Bros most courageous films, Black Legion (1937), which starred Humphrey Bogart in a powerful performance, Confessions Of A Nazi Spy (1939), with Edward G. Robinson in a powerful performance, and Gentleman's Agreement, which won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1948 and starred Gregory Peck in a powerful performance. All of these were groundbreaking, socially conscious films and we all appreciate Warner Bros for having the courage to make them. Thanks for the interview, TCM and Ben Mankiewicz.

David Zaslav: I care so much about preserving films, I preserved a $90m movie!

This was great. As a teacher of Film Appreciation, these interviews sure help inspire me when not able to be apart of these events. Keep up the wonderful work. Film does indeed teach us how to be a good person and citizen. ❤

Zaslav's idea of film preservation is to remake them all.

David Zaslav being on a panel about preserving film and then taking off films on HBOmax for tax write-offs is very ironic.

Gotta give him credit, as much flack as Zaslov has taken on since arriving at WB, he comes across very genuine here, and says all the right things. I don't care what his motives are in continuing support of TCM, it's just good to know it's still a priority and won't get axed in the endless corporate restructuring of the WB.

Watching this again while I try to process the horrible news about all the layoffs of vital, long-term TCM staffers.

How refreshing to see a head of a studio nowadays who is actually a movie lover and not just concerned with the bottom line. We need more CEOs like this guy.

PTA: "There's a great Max Ophuls movie called..." He could've named just about any Max Ophuls film. 😉 One of my favorite filmmakers ever, talking about one of my favorite filmmakers ever. _La Ronde, Le Plaisir, The Earrings Of Madame de..._ and _Lola Montes_ are among the greatest of all time.

Has anyone else here seen Gillo Pontecorvo‘s film “Kapo?” I just saw it for the first time yesterday and was very impressed by it.

We don't deserve Paul Thomas Anderson if all we pay to see are superhero movies all the time.

This was encouraging to see. Impressive panel. The fact that they still can restore One Eyed Jacks, and shall, pleased me to no end. Ty.😎👍

I wanted to hate David for the Max shakeup but I actually respect his thought process

Thank God they’re restoring East of Eden. The latest version they had available commercially left a lot to be desired audio and image wise

Isn't it because of Zaslav that we recently lost tcm Underground (easily the best part of tcm) ?

Tarantino and Edgar Wright should be in this

Go down swinging, Kodak.

Hey Paul, Steven, can you ask David to restore and release The Devils (1971)?

The elephant in the room is Christopher Nolan's absence here, who severed his long-time relationship with Warner Bros after they shifted their business model from theatrical presentation to direct-to-streaming. David Zaslav doesn't care about preserving film.

Great but no one mentioned why films should be preserved beyond the obvious reasons that they are historically old and had great stories to show and tell. No one mentioned the equally if not more important reason for film preservation which is that it is DIFFERENT from digital movies. Film has its own character and its own great and unique vibrant beauty on the big screen. A unique canvas for visual artistry. No matter how hard digital technology tries to clone the actual film look using pixels…digital will never be an authentic piece of film. I would be very happy and grateful if these giants of the Hollywood industry start promoting and working on bringing back the business and the practice of traditional movie watching. Which is watching movies shot on film on the big screen using actual film projectors. It was Hollywood who killed this practice and replaced it with digital technology. More than just preserving their film rolls, this great tradition of viewing these films should be revived for modern day audiences.

It's good to see Zaslav there and to hear him speak.

Zaslav should take up acting.

This is highly inspiring but also makes me very sad to see the state of things these days

What better way to preserve warner bros film history then by throwing out old posters and not donating them to film schools or museums.

What’s the name of the one Chris Nolan brought up??

Fun fact : Black legion was directed by Archie Mayo, the guy who directed the great Marx Brothers movie : A night at Casablanca !

A real DVD was never made of Ironweed, with Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep and Tom Waits. It's made from the VHS, and looks it.

Stop the Hate RIP Mike Bloomfield 💔🥀

PTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Remember when George Lucas used to want to honor film history and not add Hayden Christensen and bad 1997 CGI to classics?

I know he runs the corporation that owns TCM, but I’m not sure I’d call David Zaslav a “preservationist” lol EDIT: yeah he very much is not a preservationist it’s like quadruple confirmed. Hoping he’s fired within the next few months

"Please, everyone, save us from going out of business" lol. Maybe try to make better movies and we will. We have to watch TCM to see good films, so who's fault is that?! PTA's last good movie was The Master in 2012, and we won't even mention Spielberg.

Who else is fatigued by superhero movies

A lot of trousers run this

came to see my dude PTA but then this ceo nerd is explaining what movies are

Am I the only one who doesn’t think Fablemans is that great? Don’t get me wrong. There are some amazing scenes but it’s way to long! Spielberg directed some of the best movies of all time. Jaws, Duel, ET, Raiders, and Schindler’s List but his need to constantly direct has rendered such mediocre movies. Especially the second part of his career which starts after private Ryan and begins with A.I. Great sequences but overall kinda a mess. And I love Spielberg

Yeah, I’m not buying Zaslav act in this. I still think he’s full of shit and will continue to screw over cinema in the name of his bottom line

LOL at Zaslav talking about preserving movies when he is tax writing off the movies. In fact Batgirl'd is now a verb and he did it to a Coyote vs Acme again.

This was amazing. Also, here's Caught, the movie PTA was talking about, on KZfaq - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d7eDeciktN3Uf4U.html

PTA did Boogie Nights. Big deal.

I’m torn about Zazlav. He speaks convincingly here but of course he’s single-handedly destroyed so many films/series by removing them from HBO to save on lisencing. But then again, WB was run-in-to-the-ground by Covid and has been hemorrhaging ever since. Maybe it’s worth sacrificing a few vinyls and mrs harris’s to keep Warner brothers alive? Maybe he’s full of shit.

"And it's a way for us to say what's OK and what's not OK." No, it isn't

Rescue? First , get rid of the sjw/woke undertones in movies.

If you want to save it, then get rid of Ben Mankiewicz and the other "Woke" hosts, lose the bright multi-colored backgrounds and bring back the old black and white channel bumpers/station IDs/logo. Also, lose the stupid "Reframed" program. We know that Gone with the Wind had racism in it. We don't need Ben and the others to sit and discuss it or any other film. TCM went "Woke" and now because of it they're unfortunately gonna go broke and my old favorite movie network will soon be no more. So thanks for nothing, Mankiewicz & Crew!

Спилберг, ты понимаешь, что твои фильмы это насилие и жестокость! Ты, что тупой? Вы там в Голливуде совсем, что-ли с ума сошли? Что за фильмы вы делаете? Лукас про Звездные войны, ты про динозавров и подобное. Это что за фильмы у вас? Вы с Лукасом должны закончить создание подобного кино! Это не кино, это призыв к насилию, к убийству, запугивание людей динозаврами, и прочая чушь для дураков. Вы имеете в Америке прекрасных классиков литературы, поэзии, почему вам не делать классические фильмы? Хемингуэй, Фицджеральд, Майн Рида, Джека Лондона? А? Вы считаете, что вы динозаврами себе больше денег заработаете? Да! Но вам сейчас стыдно за эти фильмы.