I read Cormac McCarthy’s The Road during my move from Texas to Washington, DC. I started at the airport and ended one morning in my bed in DC while my girlfriend was sleeping next to me. It scared me. It…
Read more →June 11, 1922: The “father of the documentary film,” Robert Flaherty, releases his greatest achievement, Nanook of the North. June 6, 1933: The first drive-in theater opens on a 10-acre site on Admiral Wilson Boulevard in Camden, N.J. Now Showing:…
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It wasn’t too long ago that writer-director Vincenzo Natali was getting bad vibes about his newest film. Splice, the latest effort from the filmmaker, was a project he worked on for ten years, beginning with a script he had written shortly…
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Question: Will the 1936 Show Boat be put on DVD in the near future? The film was available on Laserdisc several years ago and I consider it the best version of the musical. Answer: Many people share your opinion that…
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Today we pay homage to the film legacy of Will Rogers. He was brilliant at teaching common sense to the common man during the Roaring Twenties and Great Depression; a populist who manipulated the media to educate his fellow citizens…
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Duel at Diablo (1966) is an odd, unique Western, a rare collage of individual desires in a genre that routinely celebrates the successes of partnership and camaraderie. One of the most talked-about aspects of Duel at Diablo is the…
Read more →June 2, 1916: Victor Schertzinger composes the first original film score for an American feature, Thomas H. Ince’s Civilization. June 1, 1943: The plane carrying refined British actor Leslie Howard, 50, is shot down by German fighters over the Bay…
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With Memorial Day ushering in the unofficial start of summer here in the northern climes of the U.S., it is time for us to fire up the barbeque, get the pool ready, pull the lawn chairs out of storage and…
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