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A Couple of Keaton Kinos: The General and Three Ages

Jan 10, 2018 Andy Ross 0

Kino Lorber has released two notable films by the great Buster Keaton to blu-ray in the same package. This two-disc set brings together Keaton’s first starring feature, 1923’s Three Ages with his masterpiece, 1926’s The […]

Lois Weber
Opinion

Dame in the Game: Lois Weber

Apr 20, 2017 Maureen Lenker 2

Film historian Maureen Lee Lenker returns with the latest edition of her column, Dame in the Game: an in-depth look at groundbreaking women in film. Though she is little known today, Lois Weber was one […]

Judith of Bethulia
Movies

B-Roll: D. W. Griffith’s JUDITH OF BETHULIA (1914)

Feb 2, 2016 Nathanael Hood 0

Few directors are burdened with a more troubling legacy than D. W. Griffith. Though undeniable in importance and influence as one of the great innovators of the first few decades of the cinema’s existence, his […]

Frank Capra, D.W. Griffith, Jean Hersholt, Henry B. Walthall, Frank Lloyd, Cecil B. DeMille and Donald Crisp
Opinion

The Oscar Ceremony That Almost Wasn’t

Feb 18, 2015 Jon Mullich 1

The red carpet, the secret envelopes, and the after-party glitz and glam have become so ingrained in how we perceive the Oscar ceremony, that it’s hard to imagine a time when they weren’t anything like […]

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