Since it's Carrie Nation day here at LGM, let's look at the 1901 Edwin S. Porter film mocking her actions, Kansas Saloon Smashers. Surprisingly lengthy Wikipedia entry about it. https://www.youtube.com/embed/S5iYtpNSG2c
Edwin Edwards died the other day and we shouldn't let the loss of such an august champion of clean government pass without discussing it. Here's the first part of the.
Photo of a dust storm in Tyrone, Okla., taken on April 14, 1935. The Dust Bowl of the 1930s sent more than a million residents of the area to California..
Last night, I watched Masaki Kobayashi's astounding 1967 film Samurai Rebellion, about a lord forcing a vassal to marry an exiled mistress, only to see them fall in love and.
I confess to not being the biggest Marx Brothers fan. Chaos as comedy is something that has a fairly short shelf life for me. But I have to also confess.
I recently watched the fascinating 1934 film Dos Monjes, directed by Juan Bustillo Oro. A few things that make this film notable. First, it's the oldest Mexican film I've seen..
While I'm not sure that Robert Altman's 1984 adaptation of the Donald Freed and Arnold Stone play where a drunk Richard Nixon rants into a tape recorder is a great.
In the aftermath of Triumph of the Will, the German military was mad that Leni Riefenstahl didn't pay it enough attention. It wanted its own film. And so she made.
