Shadows," which is to have 11 screenings at Film Forum today through Sunday, is a centerpiece of the theater's nine-film retrospective tribute to the Armenian-born director, which began on Wednesday.

The film was featured at the International Film Festival of India in 2003 as part of a retrospective tribute to its director K.S. Sethu Madhavan.

However, the single-strip 70mm version of the film has been shown in retrospective tributes to co-director Hammid.

She made appearances at the 1998 and 2003 Academy Awards ceremonies as part of special retrospective tributes to past Oscar winners.

With the 25th anniversary of Mr. Donahue's talk show coming up on Nov. 6, they will tape a two-hour retrospective tribute that will be shown on NBC on Nov. 15.

The final program airing on RCTV Sunday was an all day/night retrospective tribute to the network, featuring current and ex workers, artists and staff of RCTV.

"Tarzan's Tonsillitis," Bryce Echenique's 14th published work, is something rather different - an expatriate's novel, a rueful retrospective tribute to the heroic survivors of decades of rebellions and coups and dirty wars.

The Chicago International Documentary Film Festival featured a retrospective tribute to De Putter's work in 2003.

The festival will also present 21 avant-garde films, 14 shorts and a retrospective tribute to the Italian director Pietro Germi.

Such retrospective tributes are a sure sign that the medium has come of age, but they also make one nostalgic for the days of video's wild youth.