silent films Articles

Oscar Ceremony 2012 According to common wisdom, the Oscar ceremony attracts the most viewers only if there’s at least one major box-office blockbuster in the running for Best Picture. The source for that assumption is the 1998 Oscar ceremony, when James Cameron’s Titanic won the Best Picture Oscar — in addition to Academy Awards in ten other categories — and Oscarcast television ratings soared: 57.25 [...]

Christopher Plummer’s gay father in Beginners While researching the life of Ramon Novarro, one line that kept popping up whenever old-timers reminisced about the good old days of the silent era was, and I’m paraphrasing here, "We created a universal language that could be understood anywhere on the planet." That might — or might not — explain how the French-made The Artist managed to win [...]

Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy took a well-deserved swipe at Fox News while taking part at a press conference at London’s May Fair Hotel this past January 26. Please scroll down to check out the video. A little while ago, Fox Business Channel’s Eric Bolling said the following: "The Muppets are back and being terrorized by an evil oil executive in their new movie. [...]

Georges Méliès‘ A Trip to the Moon MELANCHOLIA, A SEPARATION Screenplay, Runner-Up Jeannie Berlin: National Society of Film Critics’ Surprises Two interesting omissions from the NSFC roster: critics’ fave Michelle Williams (for portraying Marilyn Monroe in Simon Curtis‘ My Week with Marilyn) and George Clooney (for his stressed out father in Alexander Payne’s The Descendants) weren’t among the critics’ top three actresses/actors. Dunst and Yun [...]