We haven't done a Melies film in awhile, so let's do that. Here's 1896's The Nightmare. Doesn't get much older than that! Hmmm....turns out blackface was a thing in France too.....
LGM film club
Tonight's Film Club entry builds on the last one and looks at another early 30s film of Constance Bennett. Gregory LaCava directed Bed of Roses, which was released in 1933..
In one way, George Cukor's 1932's What Price Hollywood? is a ridiculous film that reinforced stereotypes of Hollywood. Constance Bennett stars as a waitress who gets discovered in a diner.
The 1954 film Human Desire is hardly Fritz Lang's top film; in fact, it's hardly Lang's top Hollywood film. But it makes for an OK film noir. Glenn Ford is a recently returned vet from Korea who gets his job back as a train engineer....
I recently watched Nicholas Spitzer's 1984 film Zydeco, an hour long documentary about the zydeco scene in southwestern Louisiana, with lots of great material. People such as Bois Sec Ardoin.
I don't watch a ton of new Hollywood films, but I heard good enough things about Linklater's Hit Man that I figured I should check it out. And I enjoyed.
I recently watched John Farrow's 1948 film The Big Clock, adapted from the Kenneth Fearing novel, and starring Ray Milland and Charles Laughton. I'd read the novel some years ago, but didn't totally remember the details as it turned out, as I wasn't quite sure...
This silent film of various Boston sites isn't super exciting necessarily and there aren't even title cards to provide a narrative. But films of cities a century ago are pretty.
Silent films can be incredibly entertaining and not just the classic comedies. A great starting point is Victor Fleming's 1926 film Mantrap, starring Clara Bow as a woman on the.
I just loved Celine Song's debut film from last year. Widely acclaimed, one can easily see why. Two young Koreans have a crush on each other. But her family of artists immigrates to Canada when they are 12. Years later, she is a writer in...
Agnieszka Holland's Green Border is a brilliant film and very difficult to watch, in the same way that the greatest films about the Holocaust are. Holland has never shied away.
This fascinating 1943 film, surprisingly out of MGM, is a great 10 minute introduction in the midcentury American art scene. It focuses on a few painters, some of which don't.