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Depending on whom you talk to, anywhere between 75 and 90% of all silent film is lost forever. The vast majority of everything produced between the advent of moving images in 1894 to the proliferation of synchronized sound in 1929 … Continue reading DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME
Elsa Dorfman isn’t interested in your soul; your surface is more than enough. And since the 1960s, Dorfman has photographed those surfaces with love and care from her studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts. And in Errol Morris’ documentary, The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s … Continue reading THE B-SIDE: ELSA DORFMAN’S PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY
Scientific people know very well that time is only a kind of space. We can move forward and backward in time just as we can move forward and backward in space. —H.G. Wells, The Time Machine Like most, this story begins … Continue reading HOW TO BUILD A TIME MACHINE
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. —Robert Frost Buster (Rami Malek) just looks like he was born tired. Stuck working nights at a last-option hotel … Continue reading BUSTER’S MAL HEART
It’s only a paper moon. Sailing over a cardboard sea. But it wouldn’t be make believe if you believe in me. —Billy Rose and Yip Harburg “Paper Moon” The names Harold and Lillian Michelson are not synonymous with cinema, but … Continue reading HAROLD AND LILLIAN: A HOLLYWOOD LOVE STORY
manifesto, noun: a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer What we need is works of art that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding,” intones the magnificent Cate Blanchett from behind a funeral … Continue reading MANIFESTO
Speed. I am speed. Faster than fast, quicker than quick. I am Lightning. You are until you’re not. When racecar Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson) showed up on the Piston Cup circuit, he was the rookie hotshot. Faster than … Continue reading CARS 3
Though the name Emily Dickinson may be well known—most can identify her as one of the greatest American poets—not many can recite the Belle of Amherst, a play about her life, line-by-line. That same disparity can be found in the oeuvre … Continue reading A QUIET PASSION
Another summer is upon us, and that means it’s time for another season of silent film at Chautauqua. For those unfamiliar with the silent era, a quick primer: Movies didn’t always talk. True, we now call them silent movies, but … Continue reading Send in the Clowns: Chautauqua Silent Film Series (2017)
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