The Film Museum in Wien begins the new year with political thrillers from the 1970s,

The Film Museum begins the new year with political thrillers from the 1970s, the oeuvre of Gillo Pontecorvo, and an impressive new film from Egypt. Concurrently, January will see the launch of various activities to commemorate a very special anniversary:
 
In 2014, the Austrian Film Museum celebrates 50 years of existence. Throughout the year, roughly 20 “Special Projects” will relate to this anniversary: in-house programs; large and small "co-productions" with renowned Austrian and foreign institutions; numerous book, DVD, and online publications; the premiere of a new film initiated by the Film Museum; and much more. The various projects will reflect not only upon the history, the collections, and the founders of the institution, but also on the cultural moment of the museum's “birth”, as well as questions of future historiography and the importance of a museum dedicated to cinematographic film. All of these activities will be presented in detail at a press conference, and on our website, on January 24, 2014.
 
The first two projects – a year-long fundraising and support program relating to the museum collection and an evening of film and music at the Vienna Konzerthaus – already demonstrate the breadth of the anniversary celebrations. Under the headline Fifty Years of Film Preservation – Fifty New Acquisitions, we endeavor to complete 50 purchases and restorations with the help of the Austrian film community and all those who are interested in the preservation of this medium for future generations. The 50 works – desiderata in the truest sense – represent the entire spectrum of the film medium, from Hollywood classics to avant-garde films, from Early Cinema up to outstanding contemporary examples. We invite cinephile individuals and companies to support the project through (co)-financing and sponsorship of one of these 50 films.
 
The first “anniversary event” will take place on January 29, 2014 at the Vienna Konzerthaus and is dedicated to Dziga Vertov's classic Čelovek s kinoapparatom(Man With a Movie Camera, 1929), an iconic work for the Film Museum – and for film history as such: in Sight & Sound's global 2012 poll, Man With a Movie Camera was for the first time included among the ten most important movies of all time. We will screen the version reconstructed by the EYE Film Institute and the Austrian Film Museum, which returns Vertov's film to its full splendor, with the original structure and in the original screen ratio. The Konzerthaus, in cooperation with the Mozarteum Foundation, the Philharmonie Luxembourg and musician Wolfgang Mitterer, have commissioned a new “musical dialogue” with the film. On January 29, Mitterer will perform this composition for the first time. For press tickets, please contact the Konzerthaus or the Film Museum.