Why Husbands Flirt is a recently recovered 1918 film. It was part of the haul of undiscovered film found in New Zealand a few years back. I wouldn't call this a great film, but it is an amusing comedy about a playboy who can't deal...
LGM film club
I've been rereading N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn, a fantastic novel about a Jemez man dealing with life in postwar America. It made me wonder what historical visions.
We started the day with Poe, let's end the day the same, with this wild 1928 version of The Fall of the House of Usher, from a live performance in.
This little 3 minute cartoon from 1916 is a harsh look at poverty in the early twentieth century, focusing on a guy so hungry that he tries to get in an accident so he can cash in on his insurance plan. Harry Palmer, the creator...
Activist with the Dallas Peace Center stand by a statue of General Robert E. Lee during a protest at Lee Park Tuesday, June 30, 2015, in Dallas. John Fullinwider, the.
Slade Gorton died today. Despite the Times obit saying he was a moderate, ol'Slade was not a moderate. He was a mean, nasty racist who especially hated Native Americans. In.
In the 1980s, the CIA realized that the only way to get Reagan to pay attention to what they were saying was to make movies for him. So they did. This is a film, I think from 1984 or 1985, that is an analysis of...
After United Fruit and the Dulles Brothers overthrew the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala, the company came under a lot of criticism. After all, the fruit companies.
The few opportunities we have to see Django Reinhardt's hands in action are well worth including in this series, even more so when he is playing with Stéphane Grappelli. Enjoy.
I just finished reading Arturo Fontaine's remarkable novel La Vida Doble, a story of a Chilean underground fighter in the 1980s who gets captured and tortured and then totally turns on her old comrades and not only works with the Pinochet torturers but becomes one...
The Criterion Channel presently is streaming the 1981 Ron Mann documentary Imagine the Sound, probably the foremost film ever made on the free jazz scene. It features four greats--Cecil Taylor,.
Today is the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. So tonight's film club is what exists on YouTube of the powerful, angry, and wonderful 1952 Hideo Sekigawa film Hiroshima. Paul's.