Godzilla 1954. 'Godzilla' 1954 & giant black ants + Fascists & Mickey Rooney: Eclectic Packard movies in May Godzilla 1954, Mickey Rooney, military fascists, deadly giant ants, racing car drivers, and The Mishaps of Musty Suffer, a super-rare slapstick comedy…
D.W. Griffith
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Lillian Gish and her Ku Klux Klan saviors in The Birth of a Nation From 'The Birth of a Nation' to 'Iron Man': The love affair between Hollywood and the Pentagon In TomDispatch.com's excellent March 2008 article “The Golden Age…
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'Broken Blossoms': Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess star in D.W. Griffith's 1919 melodrama about doomed interethnic love and dysfunctional family relationships – one of the best movies of the 1910s BEST FILM Broken Blossoms The Hoodlum The Italian Little Pal…
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D.W. Griffith Father of Film, controversial figure. To say that the movies wouldn't be what they are today without D.W. Griffith is probably inaccurate. I mean, someone – or “someones” – would have received credit for turning filmmaking into a…
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MGM Files for Bankruptcy + the History of Hollywood & 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'
by Andre SoaresMarion Davies in King Vidor's Show People Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which decades ago was the most financially stable of the Hollywood studios, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Wednesday. MGM – initially Metro-Goldwyn – was formed through the amalgamation of Metro Pictures,…
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Ann Blyth. Ann Blyth, who received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for the film noir Mildred Pierce (1945), is pictured above during a discussion following a screening of the Joan Crawford classic at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in…
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Los Angeles Filmforum will present “D.W. Griffith in California,” on Sunday, Nov. 15, at 7:30 pm. at the Echo Park Film Center. At the screening, film scholar Tom Gunning will discuss D.W. Griffith and his early Californian films. Six of…
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Under Full Sail. Under Full Sail - Silent Cinema on the High Seas Flicker Alley (website) in association with the Blackhawk Film Collection has announced the release of “Under Full Sail – Silent Cinema on the High Seas,” a new…
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'Sold for Marriage': Lillian Gish in Remarkably Modern Socially Conscious Silent Film
by Andre Soares'Sold for Marriage': Remarkably modern early silent film Though all but completely forgotten today, Christy Cabanne (at times billed as William Christy Cabanne) was a respected name in the 1910s and 1920s. Among his credits are the1916 Douglas Fairbanks vehicle…
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Griffith Movies: Mandatory Viewing + Excellent Carol Dempster & the American Kay Hammond
by Dan ErdmanGriffith movies: Sally of the Sawdust with Carol Dempster and W.C. Fields. Once D.W. Griffith and Lillian Gish parted ways after Orphans of the Storm (1921), Carol Dempster became the filmmaker's on-screen muse (e.g., Dream Street, America) – and off-screen…
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Way Down East with Richard Barthelmess and Lillian Gish: Griffith Cinema. One of the movies included in Kino's second D.W. Griffith cinema box set, Way Down East was one of the Broken Blossoms and The Birth of a Nation filmmaker's…
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Movies to Watch: Ramon Novarro 'The Red Lily' & Claude Rains 'The Clairvoyant' + Restoring 1 of Most Influential Films
by Andre SoaresRamon Novarro and Enid Bennett in The Red Lily. Generally, I post my “Can't Miss” warnings days after the must-see movies have been shown on television. I've decided to try something different this time around. I'm sending this “Can't Miss” warning…