When it comes to westerns, 1950 was a banner year. More than 125 features were released that year—a high-water mark the genre would never again see—and many would become emblematic of the genre: John Ford’s Wagon Master, Henry King’s The … Continue reading WINCHESTER ’73
Some people have all the luck, but Jabez Stone is not some people. He’s a New Hampshire farmer with little more to show than the mortgage he owes Miser Stevens. And he’s not the only one: All the farmers in … Continue reading ALL THAT MONEY CAN BUY
From goths to cannibals, TCM to Netflix, there are plenty of place to catch horror this October. Continue reading
England, 1944: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger want to make a movie about an English bomber pilot and an American radio operator falling in love—in this world and the next. They envision a Technicolor fantasia unlike anything seen. The only … Continue reading I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING!
In 1990, Martin Scorsese brought together a band of cinema enthusiasts to protect motion picture history by creating The Film Foundation (TFF)—a bridge between Hollywood studios and archives. Its mission: Preserve America’s visual art form for future generations. Thirty years … Continue reading Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 3
Both born at the end of the 19th century, Arthur Stanley Jefferson (Stan Laurel) and Oliver Norvell Hardy (“Babe” to friends and family) found their way to the silver screen by different means. Laurel came of a theatrical family, first … Continue reading Laurel & Hardy: The Definitive Restorations
Filmmaking is an act of optimism. Setting ideas to paper; convincing others to come and join the party; devoting time, money, blood, sweat, and tears to capture those images on celluloid; believing those images can carry meaning throughout the world; … Continue reading Thelma Schoonmaker and Margaret Bodde on THE TALES OF HOFFMANN
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