Yet another set of pointless thoughts about film on my side blog. I wouldn't read it either. Recently viewed films, with one phrase reviews here, are: Paris is Burning, Livingston, 1990 (excellent documentary on gay and transsexual men in New York just as AIDS is...
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It seems a good Monday evening tradition here would be to show a Georges Méliès film. After all, he only directed 553 films, according to IMDB. Plus, their weirdness and.
Why do I spend my time watching French cigarette commercials from the 30s? I do it for you of course.
D.W. Griffith's 1909 film about how much it sucked when Progressive Era women with gargantuan hats sat in front of you at the theater.
Edward Bland’s 1959 documentary The Cry of Jazz is one of the most remarkable films I’ve ever seen. An early statement of the black nationalism that would become famous in.
Stanley Kauffmann, the dean of American film criticism and one of the greatest film critics in history, has passed. He worked for decades at The New Republic, including in the.
Rithy Pahn's documentary about the millions of forgotten people killed in Khmer Rouge death camps with scenes largely constructed with clay figurines looks amazing. In related news, the 20th century was horrible. Luckily, all the secular fundamentalist* ideologies that led to the killing of so...
I just realized that somehow I never posted The Teddy Bears here before. Imagine a silent movie version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears with Teddy Roosevelt coming in at.
I can't see how this isn't the greatest endorsement of the Democratic Party ever: “Saturday Night Live” alumnus and “Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo” actor Rob Schneider appeared in a short.
Anyone who can write awesome scenes like this needs to be remembered upon his death.
Warner Brothers is trying to sign Leonardo DiCaprio up for a biopic on Woodrow Wilson. Why do we need a biopic on Woodrow Wilson? I have no idea. Maybe it.
It seems to me that one of the tragedies of film in the last twenty years was Robert DeNiro deciding he still wanted to work a lot but he had.