Imagine yourself at the movies in the 1910s. By this point, there are real cinemas. You are going to go there with your family, or your friends, or your girl/boyfriend. The movies are still pretty sho
I may have linked to this film way in the distant past, but I never have since I started the film club, so let’s discuss the 1907 film The Teddy Bears. I had reason to show this to my class this
Like many people, I love Sam Fuller. His movies were so before their time with their focus on violence and the filth of society in a way that was usually impossible during the Hays Code era. ThereR
Tonight let’s watch the excellent 1952 film The Bad and The Beautiful. Directed by Vincente Minnelli, it stars Kirk Douglas as an utterly unscrupulous movie mogul and three of the people he scre
5 Card Stud, from 1968, stars Dean Martin as a professional gambler in the 1880s West. He’s part of a card game. A guy cheats. The other gamblers, outside of Martin, decide to lynch the cheat. T
I haven’t done a logging film in a long time, which considering my long-term interest in the profession and its history seems unlikely. So let’s watch this 1926 film Logging in Idaho, whic
My month is pretty much occupied with watching the Robert Mitchum collection on Criterion Channel. Last night, that was the 1958 film Thunder Road, a real favorite of mine but one I hadn’t seen
This is one of the truly most reprehensible pieces of government propaganda I have ever seen produced by the United States. This is Milton Eisenhower narrating a 1942 film (I know the link says 1943,