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Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers — Dr. Shelley Stamp Interview

October 21, 2018 By Leave a Comment

Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers — Dr. Shelley Stamp Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. Shelley Stamp has made musing on the role of gender in film her life’s work. From her fascination with 70s horror films, to the work of pioneering filmmaker Lois Weber, a long-forgotten director working at the same time as D.W. Griffith, and just as popular. And just as… Read More »

Tagged With: Alice Guy Blache, film history, gender studies, Kino Lorber, Lois Weber, Shelley Stamp, silent cinema, women filmmakers

ACTORS OF SOUND

February 28, 2018 By Leave a Comment

ACTORS OF SOUND

One of my favorite cinema stories is about KING KONG and the trouble it ran into with the censors even in that pre-Code time of 1933. It wasn’t Fay Wray in her slinky satin negligee, it wasn’t dinosaurs tearing each other apart. No, the only censored bit of KING KONG was the sound of Kong… Read More »

Tagged With: cinema history, digital sound, film history, foley artist, Foley sound, John Foley, King Kong, movie history, sound effects

Anita Monga on the 2016 San Francisco Silent Film Festival

June 1, 2016 By 1 Comment

Anita Monga on the 2016 San Francisco Silent Film Festival

Few people speak about silent cinema with such authority and such affection as Anita Monga, Artistic Director of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. When we spoke on May 16, 2016, it was to discuss not just the dynamic slate of films at this year’s festival, its 21st, but also the work that the festival… Read More »

Tagged With: Abel Gance, Albatross Studios, Anthony Asquith, BFI, Bryony Dixon, Castro Theatre, cinema history, Cinemateque Francais, Douglas Fairbanks Sr, Emil Jannings, Ernst Lubitsch, film history, film restoration, Guenter Buchwald, Hal Roach, Hayes Code, John Mirsalis, Laurel and Hardy, Louise Brooks, Nanook of the North, Oakland Symphony chorus, Oscar Micheaux, Ozu, pie fight, Pola Negri, Rene Clair, Rob Byrne, San Francisco, silent cinema, silent film, Silent Film Festival, The Battle of the Century, Universal Pictures, Within Our Gates

HOLLYWOOD BEFORE THE CODE: SEX! CRIME! HORROR! with Elliot Lavine, Tourguide

February 23, 2016 By Leave a Comment

HOLLYWOOD BEFORE THE CODE: SEX! CRIME! HORROR! with Elliot Lavine, Tourguide

If you had to sum up what it’s like to talk with Elliot Lavine, cinema programmer extraordinaire, scholar of film history and engaging raconteur, it might be the moment when an emergency vehicle went by the room where I was interviewing him on February 17, 2106. While ruminating on studio policies about film restoration, he… Read More »

Tagged With: African-American, Al Capone, Barbara Stanwyck, Cecil B. DeMille, censorship, cinema history, cultural upheaval, DOWNSTAIRS, economic upheaval, Edward G. Robinson, film history, FREAKS, gambling addiction, GONE WITH THE WIND, Great Depression, Greta Garbo, Howard Hawks, Howard Hughes, Irving Pichel, Joan Blondell, John Gilbert, Lee Garmes, licentiousness, Louis B. Meyer, miscegenation, Paul Muni, pre-code Hollywood, race relations, SAFE IN HELL, SCARFACE, Sessue Hayakawa, sex addiction, Tallulah Bankhead, THE BITTER TEA OF GENERAL YEN, THE CHEAT, THREE ON A MATCH, Todd Browning, TWO SECONDS, WILD BOYS OF THE ROAD, WIlliam Wellman

Kent Jones on HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT

December 8, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Kent Jones on HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT

When Francois Truffaut sat down with Alfred Hitchcock in 1962, the former was in his early 30s with few films to his name, the latter was in his early 60s, and was the undisputed master of suspense. Hitchcock was not, however, given proper respect as an artist, at least not as far as Truffaut, and… Read More »

Tagged With: Alfred Hitchcock, Andrew Sarris, Arnaud Desplechin, camera angles, cinema, film criticism, film history, Francois Truffaut, Helen Scott, Kent Jones, Lew Wasserman, Martin Scorsese, Richard Linklater, suspense, Universal Studio, VERTIGO

FANTASIA/FANTASIA 2000: 2-Movie Collection Special Edition

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

FANTASIA/FANTASIA 2000: 2-Movie Collection Special Edition

Finally together and on both DVD and Blu-Ray format, the deluxe, 4-disc, release of FANTASIA and FANTASIA 2000 is more than the chance to see both features in all their glory. It’’s a chance to marvel that the old-fashioned hand-drawn animation, for all its limitations, has none when it comes to imagination. It is the emotional… Read More »

Tagged With: Disney, Disney archives, film history, lost films, Salvador Dali, Walt Disney

COOK, THE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Take note silent film fans and devotees of comedy, silent or not. Milestone has released a sterling collection of short silent films featuring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle in two of its three selections. Arbuckle had a brilliant and lucrative career as a top box office attraction that ended when he was tried for causing the death… Read More »

Tagged With: anthology, film history, restoration, shorts, silent

Stephen Salmons and The 2003 SAN FRANCISCO SILENT FILM FESTIVAL

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Stephen Salmons and The 2003 SAN FRANCISCO SILENT FILM FESTIVAL

With co-founder Melissa Chittick, Steve Salmons started the San Francisco Silent Film Festival with a dream, excellent organizational skills, and a firm belief that there was a whole new audience just waiting to rediscover this exquisite art form. To judge by the the way the festival always packs the Castro Theater, a vintage silent movie palace seating… Read More »

Tagged With: Buster Keaton, Castro Theater, CLAIRE, Disney cartoon, Eleanor Boardman, film festival, film history, GO WEST, James Murray, King Vidor, Lon Chaney, Melissa Chittick, movie palace, San Francisco, silent film, Steve Salmons, THE CROWD, Thomas Milford, Virginia Davis

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