Budd Boetticher was not really a great director in the sense of being a visionary. But he was a very solid studio director who could churn out solid film after solid film. Comanche Station, from 1960, is a great example of this. The last of...
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This is a fun little tourist documentary on Greenwich Village's hip bohemian scene in 1960. The folk music scene was just popping at this time, but the Village was well.
In the late 70s, Subaru entered the U.S. market big time and ran this fascinating ad that found Americans with last names of American car makers to admit that Subarus.
Awhile back here, I profiled Marlon Riggs' Tongues Untied, the groundbreaking film about Black gay life that sent Jesse Helms through the roof. Last night, I watched Riggs' UC-Berkeley thesis film, Long Train Running, on the Oakland blues scene of the late 40s and early...
The reason D.W. Griffith was a great filmmaker isn't that he had a great moral message, though he most certainly thought of himself as a liberal. Being a pro-Confederate liberal.
I recently watched the pretty cool 1955 Czech kids film A Journey to the Beginning of Time, which used what were primo special effects for that era to teach children.
cha I had never heard of the 1975 documentary on Charlie Chaplin, The Gentleman Tramp, until today. It seems no one else has either. Somehow, it only has 143 people who have rated it on IMDB, which is about the equivalent of a student film...
I've been really into film essays lately and recently checked this prime example of both it and Black gay cinema of the 1980s with Marlon Riggs' Tongues Untied. Riggs, who.
The Royal Road is a 2015 film essay from the queer filmmaker Jenni Olson. This is a fascinating mediation on both queerness and memory in California, a place where people.
I watched Orson Welles' 1968 adaptation of an Isak Dinesen story for French television. The story is about an old dying European capitalist in China who long ago heard this story about an old man like him who picks up a sailor to sleep with...
Awhile back, I profiled The Onion Field in this series, noting how many 70s movies were failures but interesting failures. Well, that film withers on this point in comparison to.
We haven't touched on Georges Méliès for awhile, so let's consider his 1905 film, The Legend of Rip Van Winkle, or sometimes just called Rip's Dream. One of the most.