Episode 02: Mike Pogorzelski

Michael Pogorzelski is the Director of the Academy Film Archive, whose collection now includes nearly 100,000 titles representing 214,000 items. Over 1,100 films have been preserved at the Academy Film Archive including features, documentaries, animated films, avant-garde and experimental films and home movies. Pogorzelski has preserved and restored over 50 films and recently co-supervised the digital restoration of Satyajit Ray’s Apu trilogy, Edgar G. Ulmer’s Detour(1945), Philip Kaufman’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), John Ford’s How Green Was My Valley (1941) and Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon (1950).