Film historian Anthony Slide discusses his new anthology book The Truth at Twenty-Four Frames per Second. Topics range from Lillian Gish to Betty White.
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Lillian Gish: The Birth of a Nation actress enmeshed in Bowling Green University controversy. Should Lillian Gish be labeled a racist because at age 21 she had one of the…
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However well-intentioned, Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal’s skillfull Detroit movie is unsatisfying as both drama and history. Will Poulter and John Boyega star.
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Amazing Tales from the Archives: SFSFF spotlights unusual movie audio system, pioneering female documentarian and memorably inventive comedy fantasies.
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American military movies: Besides depicting the Civil War, D.W. Griffith’s landmark 1915 feature The Birth of a Nation had the Ku Klux Klan saving heroine Lillian Gish. From ‘The Birth…
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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”…
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Marion 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…
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Judy Garland in A Star Is Born: Restored Classics. Turner Classic Movies’ first-ever TCM Classic Film Festival, which will be held on April 22–25 in Hollywood, will feature the world…
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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…
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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…
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Griffith Movies: Mandatory Viewing + Excellent Carol Dempster and the American Kay Hammond while Orson Welles remembers W.C. Fields.
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Griffith Cinema: Abraham Lincoln Biopic and the dangers of alcoholism + climactic ice-floe river rescue honoring father of American film.
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Author and film historian Anthony Slide has another book out, (politically) Incorrect Entertainment or Trash from the Past: A history of political incorrectness and bad taste in 20th century American…
Godzilla 1954 a.k.a. Gojira, with Takashi Shimura and Momoko Kôchi. Somewhat surprisingly, Ishirô Honda’s monster movie tackles the sociocultural upheavals in post-World War II Japan, as the young daughter (Kôchi)…
Jean-Luc Godard. Jean-Luc Godard, Eli Wallach (right), Kevin Brownlow, and Francis Ford Coppola have been chosen as the recipients of the 2010 special Academy Awards. Godard, Brownlow, and Wallach will…
Douglas Fairbanks in Wild and Woolly (top) and Don Q. Son of Zorro (bottom). Below right, the silent era superstar can be seen in The Matrimaniac. The exhibition “Douglas Fairbanks:…
Ramon 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…