by Dale Dalenberg | Jan 25, 2020 | Amazing Discoveries, Reviews
This is one of those films that starts as one thing and then morphs into something completely different. As the layers of the onion are stripped away one by one, you end up somewhere that you had no idea you were heading for when you started out. I think of Robert...
by Dale Dalenberg | Jan 10, 2020 | 100 Years, 100 Films
1909 in “100 Years, 100 Films” sees the advent of the one director who is responsible for more films in this series than any other, D.W. Griffith. Looking back at film history in chronological order, it is very obvious that there be a B.G. and an A.G....
by Dale Dalenberg | Jan 6, 2020 | Reviews
The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard) hit their stride in their third short feature for Columbia Pictures, Men in Black. The title is a play on “men in white,” referring to hospital staff doctors in white coats. The Stooges play...
by Dale Dalenberg | Dec 27, 2019 | 100 Years, 100 Films
Acquiring the Lumière patents, the French company Pathé quickly rose to dominate the film industry in the early days of cinema. Around this time (1908), Pathé invented the newsreel, which came to supplant the actuality films as the leading form of documentary on...
by Dale Dalenberg | Nov 30, 2019 | Reviews
In his book The Great Movies (2002), Roger Ebert speaks disparagingly of those who follow the conventional wisdom that Fellini was better in his early, neo-realist films than in his later visions of personal fantasy and excess. Ebert flat out writes “This...
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