We've talked about the classic early lunatic 1906 film Dream of a Rarebit Fiend earlier in this series. Well, the basis for this was the cartoonist Windsor McCay who started.
In 1955, the great documentarian Albert Maysles traveled around the Soviet Union visiting mental hospitals. It became his first film and here it is for you, albeit not the greatest.
I recently returned to Nabokov for the first time in a decade, reading Ada or Ardor, which is a wonderful and underrated book. In many ways, it is a companion.
This 1953 short is an absolutely outstanding satire of early television and the chaos it brought to households and neighborhoods. That's a first rate late film cameo! This was also.
I honestly know nothing about chess, but I thought this little 1937 news clip about a young British girl totally dominant at chess was a starting point for a conversation.
I recently rewatched the extraordinary 1961 film The Exiles, directed by Kent MacKenzie. He got to know the Native community living in Los Angeles and shot a film about them,.
Today's film is The Bottle and the Throttle, an anti-drunk driving film from 1965. It combines the ridiculous production values of your typical PSA film from the period with a.
Wow, yet another film about work. Shocking I know. This is part of a 1978 BBC series looking at a week in the life of various groups of people in.
