The History of Independent Cinema Articles
Phil Hall's 25 Most Important Corporate-Sponsored Films
At Film Threat: Phil Hall has posted an excerpt from his book The History of Independent Cinema, listing the 25 most important corporate-sponsored films of all time. Among those listed are: The Yanks Are Coming (1918). "The Dayton-Wright Airplane Co. produced this feature-length film about its de Haviland DH-4 aircraft, which was used by the U.S. Army Air Service in World War I. … [A [...]
Phill Hall on THE HISTORY OF INDEPENDENT CINEMA III
Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Lil Dagover in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Phil Hall Interview: Part I Phil Hall Interview: Part II What have been the top foreign influences on American independent filmmaking? The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and the European avant-garde films of the 1920s were a huge influence on U.S. underground filmmakers. The Italian neo-realism in the post-World War II era had a [...]
Phil Hall Interview II
Mary Pickford, one of the first major independent producers, and screenwriter Frances Marion Phil Hall Interview: Part I The History of Independent Cinema. I'm assuming that refers to US-made films. Even so, that's a lot of ground to cover. What sort of parameters did you have to use in order to condense that very long and very diverse history into one volume? Clearly, I could [...]
THE HISTORY OF INDEPENDENT CINEMA: Q&A with Phil Hall
"Independent film is a vast and varied territory, and Phil Hall's remarkable book explores every inch of it with wit, intelligence, a sympathetic spirit, and a wide-open mind. Fresh discoveries and surprising revelations abound on every topic from Edison to Aronofsky, Anger to Warhol, the silent era to the Internet age. It's hard to imagine a study more keenly in tune with one of cinema's [...]