by Dale Dalenberg | Sep 29, 2019 | 100 Years, 100 Films
Georges Melies (1961-1938) was a French magician who owned his own theater, designed his own stage magic, and jumped at the first chance to incorporate the new medium of film into his shows. He witnessed a Lumiere Brothers projected film display in 1895 and was...
by Dale Dalenberg | Sep 15, 2019 | Disney, Reviews
The conventional wisdom is that Fantasia (1940) was a box office flop, and that Walt Disney abandoned the idea of having a rotating set of cartoons set to music form the basis for an ever evolving film. However, Fantasia went on to become a beloved classic and did...
by Dale Dalenberg | Sep 14, 2019 | 100 Years, 100 Films
The Dalenberg Library of Antique Popular Literature presents. . .100 Years, 100 Films. A vertical tasting of world cinema. Not always the obvious choices, these films are intended to be somehow representative of their year of release. In each case, for any given...
by Dale Dalenberg | Jul 6, 2019 | Alfred Hitchcock, Movies, Reviews
Here is Hitchcock’s 13th feature film as director, and by now several of his cinematic signatures are beginning to coalesce. We have the trademark cameo as he walks by the scene of the murder early in the film. And we have “the wrong man” plot,...
by Dale Dalenberg | Jul 4, 2019 | Movies, Reviews, Sunday Film Series
On the surface a parody of Jacques Cousteau’s undersea documentaries, but even if you were born too late to grow up on Cousteau on television, this is a brilliant masterpiece of understated droll comedy with a touch of Chaplinesque pathos. Starring Bill Murray,...
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