Guest blogger Will Brownridge writes: Just goes to show that you can’t trust the guy in a tie. – Will After floating in space for over 50 years, Ripley is found and rescued. She also learns that the planet they…
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This Week In Film History, 09.05.10
September 5, 1901: William McKinley, the first U.S. president to be captured on film, is shown at the Pan-American Expo in Buffalo, one day before his assassination. September 5, 1916: In response to the outcry over The Birth of a…
Read more →The Small Back Room (1950): Movie Review
Guest blogger Cam Wilson writes: The Small Back Room is a not-so-well-known but very engaging 1949 film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. After bringing some big-budget movies to the screen, the director-writer duo decided to scale down to a…
Read more →Calling Dr. Kildare! Hollywood’s Take on Medical Science
Guest contributor Victoria Balloon writes: Before there was House and Gray’s Anatomy Americans got their Hollywood medical drama from watching Dr. James Kildare. Not the 1960s television series starring Richard Chamberlain, but a series of MGM short feature films from…
Read more →Going The Distance: An Interview with Director Nanette Burstein
After directing three acclaimed documentaries on boxing (the Oscar-nominated Against the Ropes), film producer Robert Evans (The Kid Stays in the Picture) and teenagers (American Teen), director Nanette Burstein was finally ready to make the leap to helming a feature…
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Guest blogger Joe Malone writes: I like to go to plays. Not Broadway extravaganzas, but community and university theater productions. Unfortunately, my spouse doesn’t share this interest — which cuts back on my dramatical attendance, except when our daughter comes…
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Fifty Years Ago, When Art Was Cool…
Guest blogger Scott Nye writes: A lot has been made about this year being the 50th anniversary of Psycho and Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, especially with the latter embarking on a cross-country tour, courtesy of a newly-struck 35mm print. But two…
Read more →This Week In Film History, 08.29.10
September 1, 1902: A milestone in the evolution of the cinema is marked with the release of George Méliès‘ fantastic Voyage to the Moon. September 1, 1919: The first United Artists film, His Majesty, the American with Douglas Fairbanks, opens…
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