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Scorsese and friends race to save film classics from destruction – CNN.com
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/27/world.cinema.foundation/index.html
Led by Martin Scorsese, these celluloid crusaders are racing to save some of cinema’s masterpieces from the ravages of time.
We are trying to fight “for the existence of a memory,” Brazilian filmmaker and foundation member, Walter Salles told CNN.