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On January 1, 2025, we celebrate published works from 1929 and published sound recordings from 1924 entering the public domain! The passage of these works into the public domain celebrates our shared cultural heritage. The ability to breathe new life into long forgotten works, remix the most popular and enduring works of the time, and to better circulate the oddities we find in thrift stores, attics, and on random pockets of the internet are now freely available for us all.

While not at the same blockbuster level as 2024 with Steamboat Willie’s passage into the public domain, works from 1929 still inhabit strong cultural significance today. The works of 1929 continue to capture the Lost Generation’s voice, the rise of sound film, and the emerging modern moment of the 1920s.

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Last year Mickey Mouse made a splash with Steamboat Willie cruising into the public domain. This year TWELVE more Mickey shorts join to flesh out the notable events of Mickey’s young career. He spea

Je parle pas de films nazes à la Love Actually, hein. Je parle de vrais bons films avec de l'amour dedans.

C'est totalement un poste pour parler de Comrades, almost a love story que j'ai découvert il y a quelques mois et qui m'obsède depuis.

L'histoire d'un chinois qui va a Hong Kong et qui rencontre une nana qui l'aide à s'adapter à la vie à Hong Kong. Le film s'étale sur plus d'une dizaine d'années. La narration est très asiatique de l'est, plutôt lente sans conflits grandiloquents, plein d'humour, juste la vie des gens.

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