Today marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of The Lusitania. After the phenomenal success of Gertie the Dinosaur (1914), cartoonist Winsor McCay realized that he had found his passion in animation, and he was eager […]
Thomas Hardy’s 19th century novel of class distinction, gender inequality, romantic love and practical application has been beautifully rendered in the film Far From the Madding Crowd. Recently released to favorable reviews starring Cary Mulligan, […]
Yes, there’s Citizen Kane, and The Third Man, and F is For Fake, yada yada yada — but here, distilled in this little clip, is the very essence of the man, the myth, the Welles. […]
As one of the films made before his disastrous, life- and career-altering testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee in April 1952, Elia Kazan ’s Boomerang! (1947) has long been treated as a footnote in the […]
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