One of cinema’s early comediennes, Dorothy Devore: between 1918 and 1930, the Ft. Worth-born actress was seen in nearly 100 movies, both features and shorts. Among them were Salvation Sue,…
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The Audition 2015 poster with Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro. ‘The Audition’ 2015: Martin Scorsese short starring Leonardo DiCaprio & Robert De Niro pulled from Venice Film…
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SFSFF’s ‘Avant-Garde Paris’ movies Ménilmontant and the wholly abstract Emak-Bakia were offered to those willing to take a chance.
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The San Francisco Silent Film Festival program ‘Amazing Tales from the Archives’ discussed the discovery of the 1916 Sherlock Holmes.
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The San Francisco Silent Film Festival’s ‘A Night at the Cinema in 1914’ was the second best thing to a time machine. World War I and Charles Chaplin featured.
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Topics at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival’s Amazing Tales from the Archives included Fred Ott’s seminal ‘sneeze face’ and the technological Charles Chaplin.
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Ann Arbor Film Festival 16mm films at the Los Angeles Filmforum The Los Angeles Filmforum will present the 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival’s 16mm short-film show, featuring recent U.S.-made experimental,…
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Barbara Sukowa as Hildegard von Bingen in Vision Margerethe von Trotta-Barbara Sukowa ‘Vision’: Hildegard von Bingen in L.A. Margarethe von Trotta’s Vision, Official Selection at the Telluride and Toronto film…
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Silvio Orlando and Alba Rohrwacher in Giovanna’s Father. Matteo Garrone’s organized crime drama Gomorrah (above, top photo), based on Roberto Saviano’s polemical book, took top honors at the 2009 David…
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Gay murder – and political life – that rocked California: Milk. The WGA Awards’ Best Original Screenplay pick was Milk, Dustin Lance Black’s narrative about openly gay San Francisco Board…
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy Saturday, August 23, highlights on Turner Classic Movies: There are some who find Laurel & Hardy painfully funny. There are others who find them merely…
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Sex education film The Irresponsibles. The British Film Institute’s “The Joy of Sex Education” – to be presented at London’s bfi Southbank – consists of a series of British-made sex…
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Molly Beck Ferguson sings for homeless man William Fiala, who also happens to be the co-director of Cubicle: The Musicle I’ve known Tibor Szakaly for a couple of years. Each…
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Isabella Rossellini as her mother, Ingrid Bergman, in ‘My Dad Is 100 Years Old’ Guy Maddin’s 2005 16-minute short film My Dad Is 100 Years Old, in which Isabella Rossellini pays “a unique…
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Thomas Edison ‘Frankenstein’ 1910 owner Alois F. Dettlaff found dead Alois F. Dettlaff, the film archivist responsible for preserving the only surviving print of Thomas Edison’s 1910 film adaptation of…
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Documentary or docudrama? Is it possible to pinpoint the line separating fiction from one recent Oscar winner’s extensive use of reenactments?
Best Documentary Short Film: White Earth is a potential Oscar contender. Best Documentary Short Films Oscar: Illness & death are top subjects Eight films – most of them featuring illness and/or…
Famous Children of Famous Parents: Edoardo Ponti and Nastassja Kinski, with Enrico Lo Verso in The Nightshift Belongs to the Stars. Edoardo Ponti & Bryce Dallas Howard live action shorts…
Rashomon effect revisited: Toshiro Mifune and Machiko Kyo in Akira Kurosawa classic. Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 classic Rashomon, which officially introduced Japanese cinema to the world at large, will be the…
Marjoe Gortner, “Evangelism’s answer to Mick Jagger,” as seen in the poster of the 1972 documentary Marjoe. Sarah Kernochan and Howard Smith’s Oscar-winning film about Evangelical Christian scammers shows how…