MOSCOW -- Campaigners fighting to preserve Moscow's world-renowned cinema museum -- which is being forced to close Dec. 1 -- have issued an open letter calling on President Vladimir Putin to intervene. The Society of Friends of the Cinema Museum -- a group set up to defend the museum -- said that unless urgent government action is taken to provide suitable new accommodation, a cinematic resource of international importance could be Lost Forever. The closure of the museum -- which has been based at Moscow's KinoCenter cinema for the past 15 years -- threatens to destroy the city's reputation as a "European film capital equal to Paris and Berlin," stated the letter addressed to President Putin and federal culture and cinematography agency head Mikhail Svidkoi, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, and other senior culture officials.
- 11/24/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MOSCOW -- Campaigners fighting to preserve Moscow's world-renowned cinema museum -- which is being forced to close Dec. 1 -- have issued an open letter calling on President Vladimir Putin to intervene. The Society of Friends of the Cinema Museum -- a group set up to defend the museum -- said that unless urgent government action is taken to provide suitable new accommodation, a cinematic resource of international importance could be lost forever. The closure of the museum -- which has been based at Moscow's KinoCenter cinema for the past 15 years -- threatens to destroy the city's reputation as a "European film capital equal to Paris and Berlin," stated the letter addressed to President Putin and signed by federal culture and cinematography agency head Mikhail Svidkoi, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, and other senior culture officials.
- 11/22/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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