Films such as those seen in the British Film Institute’s compilation Around China with a Movie Camera offer a magical window into the past.
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Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation trailer: Tom Cruise is back as Ethan Hunt, providing laugh-out-loud falling, fighting and flying stunts.
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First Best Actor Oscar winner Emil Jannings in ‘The Last Command.’ First Best Actor Oscar winner Emil Jannings, first Best Actress Oscar winner Janet Gaynor on TCM First Best Actor…
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Scariest Movies Ever Made: Chicago Critics’ Top 100. Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, tops the list but a number of strange and spooky omissions.
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Fay Wray. Fay Wray movies Actress Fay Wray, best remembered for playing the love interest in the 1933 interspecies romance classic King Kong, would have turned 105 on Sep. 15.…
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J’accuse!: Abel Gance anti-war drama with Séverin-Mars. Released the year after the end of World War I, Abel Gance’s 1919 anti-war French drama was a major hit in France and…
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Land of the Lost Movie: Chaka, Will Ferrell and Arthur Conan Doyle plus Anna Friel and Danny McBride in reboot of cult TV series.
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Jean Parker: Last Surviving Little Women 1933 actress and Lady for a Day ingenue + star of sleeper MGM hit Sequoia and whose husband was Batman actor.
Ray Harryhausen: Visual effects titan. Ray Harryhausen: ‘Jason and the Argonauts’ & ‘One Million Years B.C.’ visual-effects artist has died Long before the computer-generated imagery of Jurassic Park, Avatar, The…
I’ve already mentioned film historian Anthony Slide’s great-looking new book Now Playing, which documents the work of artists who created movie posters for urban movie palaces and neighborhood theaters alike,…