Goncharov Explained: How The Internet 'Discovered' A 'Lost' 'Martin Scorsese' Film

Paramount Pictures Orson Welles’ “The Other Side of the Wind.” George A. Romero’s “The Amusement Park.” Martin Scorsese’s “Goncharov.” It’s been an incredible few years for film lovers and archivists, as never-before-seen movies from legendary filmmakers have been not only rediscovered but beamed straight into our living rooms on popular streaming platforms. Movies, particularly those made on unstable nitrate film during cinema’s early days, unfortunately, get lost to time more often than we’d like to believe. As only a fraction get rediscovered, restored, or finished posthumously; each time they do, it feels like a rare gift. While you can now catch Welles’ long-unfinished satire on Netflix and Romero’s previously lost thriller on Shudder, you’ll have a much harder time getting your hands on Scorsese’s 1973 recently-found mafia film, despite the fact that everyone’s talking about it this week. That’s because “Goncharov” doesn’t actually exist. The internet has Goncharov fever Warner Bros. While Twitter seems to be to imploding in slow motion and other social networks vie to become its successor, Tumblr, longtime home of the postmodern meme and weirdly enduring inside joke, is busy making up a classic movie — and its expansive accompanying lore — for the hell of it. If
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