If you see a classic film on the big screen sometime in Madison over the next few weeks and are amazed that it looks and sounds just as good as the brand-new films at the multiplex, you might have Michael Pogorzelski to thank.
Pogorzelski is a 1996 graduate of UW-Madison who has gone on to be director of the Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles, which preserves tens of thousands of films on behalf of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, particularly those that won or were nominated for Oscars. He has also become a respected film preservationist and film restorer who has worked on dozens of classic films.