The Kinetophone was the ancestor of a steady line of emerging technologies-film, recording, reproduction and amplification-that through trial and error would converge to create the technology of optical, monaural sound. […]
Thirty-five years ago, our colleagues at the prestigious film journal Film Comment in New York published a special 24-page section celebrating film editors — “Prime Cut” — which appeared in its March-April 1977 issue. […]
Beyond pure entertainment value, those looking for substance will find it. For audiences in 1938 theaters, ‘The Adventures of Robin Hood’ played as a warning to resist oppressors who were currently taking hold in Europe. […]
Like in the Shangri-la it depicts, ‘Lost Horizon’ has proven ageless––and that is its legacy. […]
By consuming the wine and wafer, we vicariously channel the divinity of Christ, and, by watching ‘Rio Bravo’, I was vicariously channeling the courage of John Wayne. […]
Clowns is a hilarious, startling mix of stage-bound dialogue scenes and wildly inventive montages scored by marches, Dixieland jazz and, occasionally, Jason Robards strumming a ukulele. […]
The Vitagraph Studio was the veritable cradle of the film industry. […]
‘Last Year at Marienbad’ remains one of the most famous films made, perhaps because it is so elegant––and yet so infuriating. […]
This was unlike any movie I had ever seen. The movie unfolded with a slow, measured pace, revealing image after gorgeous image. […]
Though Jack Sullivan won an Oscar for Best Assistant Director for ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’, it is the breathtaking editing by George Amy of the charge that makes the film a classic. […]
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