December 19, 1909: The first use of freeze frame for dramatic effect is employed by D.W. Griffith for the film A Corner in Wheat. December 24, 1906: Considered to be the first feature-length (70 minutes) motion picture, the Australian drama…
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The Weird Worlds of Jean-Pierre Jeunet
The state of foreign cinema in the United States appears so dire, that unless a film imported over the last few years featured a girl with a dragon tattoo, it is unlikely American audiences saw it. Name directors from foreign…
Read more →All Good Things An Interview With Director Andrew Jarecki
It seems that wherever Andrew Jarecki goes, trouble follows. Take the director’s first film, 2004’s Capturing the Friedmans. Jarecki intended to make a documentary about entertainers at children’s parties. While focusing on popular kids’ clown David Freidman, he discovered that…
Read more →Top Ten Christmas Animated Features
It’s Christmas toons time, as guest writer Charles Wiebe counts down his 10 favorite animated Yuletide treats. A Charlie Brown Christmas, Mickey Christmas Carol, and The Polar Express make his “nice” list; see how it stacks up to yours.
Read more →Your Questions On David Niven Favorites And More Answered
Q: I’m still waiting for 55 Days at Peking (1963) starring Charlton Heston to be released. A: You and many others, sadly. The Weinstein Group owns the home video rights, and the library from that company is now being handled…
Read more →Christmas Shocking Stuffers for Horror Movie Fans
Fellow monster fans, there’s a disturbing fact we must face around the same time each year: Few gift buyers immediately associate the post-Halloween holidays with horror movies! The everyday shopper can therefore be forgiven for not realizing that you’d be…
Read more →Deanna Durbin & Christmas Holiday
I became interested in classic film early in my teens. Able to stay up late during summer vacations I passed the time with American Movie Classics. (TCM was still more than a decade away). Despite being weaned in a house…
Read more →IFC Now Stands for “Interrupted Film Channel”
Most of you, I assume, are familiar with the story of the frog and the pot of boiling water. For the uninitiated, it states that your average frog, when placed in an average pot of 212-degree water, will wisely and immediately hop…
Read more →Movie Poll: Who’s your favorite TV/film Ebenezer Scrooge?
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Read more →In This Our Life: A Forward Thinking Film For 1942
In This Our Life: I sought out this movie thanks to an essay by Stanley Crouch, which focuses on the unusually progressive racial politics of the film, and offers it as a counterpoint to Gone With the Wind, which Crouch…
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