by Dale Dalenberg | Oct 12, 2019 | 100 Years, 100 Films
The Great Train Robbery always takes me back to Disneyland, which is where I first watched it in the calm darkness you would step into off the hustle and bustle of Main Street, playing in an endless loop all day, available to be viewed over and over again before you...
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 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 | Dec 12, 2018 | 100 Years, 100 Films
In this one film, Fritz Lang lays the groundwork for much of film noir (Lang practically created the genre) AND provides the mold for what would come to be known in the future as supervillains. Comic book supervillains, such as the nemeses of Superman and Batman, ...
by Dale Dalenberg | Sep 20, 2018 | 100 Years, 100 Films
Produced, directed, scored by & starring Charlie Chaplin. The young Jackie Coogan delivers one of the most precious, endearing child performances in film history as he plays the orphan unwittingly adopted by Chaplin in his signature role as The Little Tramp. At...
by Dale Dalenberg | Sep 13, 2018 | 100 Years, 100 Films
Hugely influential psychological thriller introduced German Expressionism in the cinema with major ramifications for horror, film noir, and even modern Tim Burton movies. This surrealistic 75-minute shocker begs for frame by frame dissection to uncover revelations...
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