by Dale Dalenberg | Mar 16, 2018 | Dalenberg Library Gallery
Richard Schickel (1933-2017) was a pillar of the community of film critics who rose to dominance in the later half of the 1960’s–he was film critic for Time Magazine from 1965-2010. This is the generation for whom films like Bonnie and Clyde were iconic,...
by Dale Dalenberg | Feb 25, 2018 | Dalenberg Library Gallery
Nowadays, 90 years later, the most neglected period in film history is the transition from silents to talkies. Most people only know anything about this massive upheaval in the film world from the comic spin on it in the 1952 classic Singin’ in the Rain, with...
by Dale Dalenberg | Jan 9, 2018 | Dalenberg Library Gallery
Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) makes the point in a 1966 interview that he didn’t consciously set out to be the master of the macabre. He believed that he gravitated to the macabre because it was a British preoccupation. One thinks of Jack the Ripper, penny dreadfuls,...
by Dale Dalenberg | Dec 5, 2017 | Dalenberg Library Gallery
Wings is a novelization of the screenplay for the movie of the same title. This Grossett & Dunlap edition from 1927 features publicity stills from Paramount Pictures. Therefore, it is a full-fledged movie tie-in edition, as we would call it today. The film, a...
by Dale Dalenberg | Nov 10, 2017 | Dalenberg Library Gallery
Grass, released in 1925, stands as one of the earliest ethnographic documentary films, rivalled in the silent era only by Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922). While Nanook is a fine film, it has come under criticism for not being totally...
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