Last night, I watched Juno for the first time since I saw it in the theater. I'll be damned if it doesn't hold up incredibly well. What really works now (maybe it did then and maybe it wasn't obvious) is that Jason Bateman's wannabe hipster...
LGM film club
OK, OK, I know what you are saying--yet another Sudanese film! My God I am so sick of watching so much African cinema! Yes, well, it's time to watch Ibrahim.
Promises: Through Congress is a 2021 film by Trevor Tweeden that is a simple concept. Let's play the amazing Pharoah Sanders/Floating Points/London Symphony Orchestra album Promises while spending 40 minutes.
I recently watched the fascinating new Christopher Roth documentary, Europe Endless 1: The Specter of Eurocommunism. This is the first part of a planned trilogy that celebrates the greatest values of modern Europe and the idea of Europe. The obvious influence here is Chris Marker,...
This is the Bowery is a 1941 MGM short designed primarily to make viewers feel that mission work for the homelessness on the Bowery and in other districts in the.
Tonight, we can watch a 1 minute 1939 British Pathé film on how Poland is preparing itself for defense and is a key part of the British-French alliance. Well, about.
We continue our tour of colonization through film footage by looking at this 9 minute 1930s travel piece on Cebu, Philippines, which pretty much consists of lionizing Magellan (who died there) and talking about current industry such as hemp, all under a theme of "Learn...
After all these years here at LGM, I've discovered that what really drives comments is a combination of silent film and logging and so here is some footage of logging.
This is actually a very good Morley Safer piece from 60 Minutes on Chiang Kai-Shek from 1971. It's quite realistic about many issues--Chiang was not and never was any kind.
I need to get back to the film club and one of these ridiculous travel documentaries from the 1950s is a great way to do it. The thing about this kind of film is that it combines some genuinely cool footage with extremely condescending and...
Since we discussed this lovely moment earlier, let's revisit the speech this evening. Good times.
I've gotten back to watching some of the valuable documentaries on American life collected at Folkstreams. I recently watched Ranch Album, a 1987 documentary directed by Gail Steiger about a.