Film
Celebrating the Nicholas Brothers
A compilation tribute to the extraordinary dance team of Fayard and Harold Nicholas
September 16, 2011 |
By Daniel Eagan
Remembering Robert Breer and Donald Krim
Looking at the careers of an avant-garde animator and a crucial film distributor
September 14, 2011 |
By Daniel Eagan
Lost and Found: HBO and Ernst Lubitsch
A periodic update of film preservation projects.
September 09, 2011 |
By Daniel Eagan
Using Movies to Debate Sign Language
A 1913 film mirrors contemporary conflicts over how best to teach the deaf
September 07, 2011 |
By Daniel Eagan
A Trip to the Moon as You’ve Never Seen it Before
One of the landmark films in cinema can now be seen in color
September 02, 2011 |
By Daniel Eagan
Where to Find Old Films Online, Streamed Legally and for Free
Thousands of fascinating films are available for free streaming and download, if you know where to look
August 31, 2011 |
By Daniel Eagan
Screening “I Have a Dream”
It may be difficult to view the entire 17-minute speech online, but two noteworthy films were made about the March on Washington that highlight that momentous day
August 26, 2011 |
By Daniel Eagan
Paradise Lost’s Joe Berlinger on the Roots of his West Memphis Three Films
The director of the award-winning documentary reflects on what it was like to film a "real-life Salem Witch Trial"
August 24, 2011 |
By Daniel Eagan
Behind the Lost Hitchcock Film
Found in a New Zealand archive, the White Shadow offers a glimpse into early film history that extends beyond the famous director
August 19, 2011 |
By Daniel Eagan
Ken Kesey’s Pranksters Take to the Big Screen
It took an Oscar-winning director to make sense of the drug-addled footage shot by the author and his Merry Pranksters
August 05, 2011 |
By Daniel Eagan
Luna: A Whale to Watch
The true story of a lonely orca leaps from printed page to silver screen, with a boost from new technology
August 2011 |
By Michael Parfit
The Saddest Movie in the World
How do you make someone cry for the sake of science? The answer lies in a young Ricky Schroder
July 21, 2011 |
By Richard Chin
Agatha Christie on the Big and Small Screen
Even though Dame Agatha may not have enjoyed adaptations of her mysteries, audiences have been loving them for decades
May 16, 2011 |
By Daniel Eagan
Dinosaur Drive-In: Triassic Attack
The most telling moment in SyFy's latest installment of Saturday night schlock - Triassic Attack - comes fairly early on in the film. Dismayed and angered by the expansion of a nearby college, a Native American protester named Dakota (played by Raoul Trujil...
December 03, 2010 |
By Brian Switek
Dino B-Movie Alert: Triassic Attack
Regular readers know that I can't resist cheesy dinosaur movies, and a new SyFy feature set to debut late next month will be the latest stinker to be heaped on the pile of bad dino cinema.Called Triassic Attack, this direct-to-video schlock features the reanimated skeletons of a pterosaur and a Tyr...
October 19, 2010 |
By Brian Switek
Dinosaur Drive-In: When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
If paleontologists have said it once, they have said it a hundred times: non-avian dinosaurs and humans never coexisted. Most people who insist otherwise are creationist cranks who believe that evidence of a living dinosaur would somehow undermine evolutionary theory, but I understand that Hollywoo...
September 21, 2010 |
By Brian Switek
Dinosaur Drive-In: The Crater Lake Monster
Ah, The Crater Lake Monster, a film that repeatedly made me wonder, "why the heck am I still watching this movie?"Like the last Dinosaur Drive-In film featured here, Crater Lake Monster contains no actual dinosaurs (no matter how many times the scientists in the film call it one). Instead our mons...
August 25, 2010 |
By Brian Switek
Dinosaur Drive-In: Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds
When you get right down to it, most dinosaur movies are missing something. "Good special effects" might be one answer, and "a plot" is an even better one, but if "a trippy jazz-disco musical score" was your reply, then 1977's Japanese monster flick Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds may be just ...
August 03, 2010 |
By Brian Switek
James Cameron on the Future of Cinema
The director of Avatar and Terminator talks about future sequels, 3-D television and Hollywood in 2050
August 2010 |
By Lorenza Muñoz
Orphan Films - Recapturing Lost Snippets of History
Buffs gather from around the world to watch newly uncovered films by the likes of Orson Welles, Henri Cartier-Bresson and others
July 15, 2010 |
By Daniel Eagan
