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’ with Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt. ‘Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation’ trailer: Movie stunt combo “Desperate times. Desperate measures,” says Tom Cruise a.k.a. Ethan Hunt…
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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: Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’ with Janet Leigh, John Gavin and Vera Miles. Scariest movies ever made: The top 100 horror films according to the Chicago Film Critics I tend…
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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 with Will Ferrell. ‘Last of the Lost’ movie images with Anna Friel & Will Ferrell Will Ferrell, Anna Friel, and Danny McBride star as, respectively, has-been scientist…
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Jean Parker as one of the Little Women, with Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, and Frances Dee. A Best Picture Academy Award nominee, George Cukor’s Little Women helped to boost the…
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,…