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Top 300 Films of the 20th Century by AMC Filmsite 100 Essential Films by National Society of Film Critics WGA 101 Greatest Screenplays Greatest Films by TIME Magazine Rolling Stone’s 100 Maverick Films 100 Greatest Films by Entertainment Weekly Village Voice Top 100 Great Films by The Guardian read more

Abbas Kiarostami Agnes Varda Alain Resnais Andrei Tarkovsky Andrzej Wajda Ang Lee Bernardo Bertolucci Carl Theodor Dreyer Claude Chabrol The Dardenne Brothers Eric Rohmer Fritz Lang F.W. Murnau Hayao Miyazaki Hou Hsiao-Hsien Isao Takahata Jacques Becker Jacques Demy Jacques Tati Jean Cocteau Jean Pi read more

Internet Movie Database: Site for movie ratings, lists and short synopses Rotten Tomatoes: Site for simple movie ratings and reviews (Fresh or Rotten) Roger Ebert’s Website: Site for numerous eloquent and thoughtful reviews from one of the greats Metacritic: Site for simple movie ratings based read more

Historically, I feel there is a major discrepancy when it comes to watching films. Audiences flock to theaters across the country and all over the world to see the next big movie in order to be entertained for two and a half hours.  Then, in their own way film critics and theorists look at the art read more

Historically, I feel there is a major discrepancy when it comes to watching films. Audiences flock to theaters across the country and all over the world to see the next big movie in order to be entertained for two and a half hours.  Then, in their own way film critics and theorists look at the art read more

My favourite film soundtracks of all time! I feel very strongly about film soundtracks, especially if that film is a musical. A soundtrack can make or break a film and if it's a particularly stellar soundtrack, it can make me love a movie I'd otherwise pass off as a lackluster picture. Here a read more

In a 2006 article for L.A. Weekly, French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier called Pitfall (1948) "a film to rank among the best, the sharpest and the most original of noirs." I'm not sure I'd rank Pitfall with the genre's finest, but it's nonetheless a highly-effective drama that breaks free of the read more

By Fritzi Kramer on July 27, 2014 in Blog, Feature, Silent Movie Review, Silents vs Talkies One of the finest, best-acted and most beautiful mega-epics ever made, Michael Strogoff has catapulted to the top of my favorites list. The compliment is not given lightly. Jules Verne’s red-blooded Siberian read more

This is another short that’s part of a series. This time it’s a series of sports shorts. This title features a structure familiar to fans of Disney, the zaniness of Looney Tunes and a modern sensibility to pop culture references. Enjoy! LOVE SPORT: LOVE FENCING from STUDIO AKA on Vimeo read more

Publisher: Laurence King Publishing Release Date: November 9, 2011 Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design is the first book dedicated to one of the greatest American designers of the 20th century. Saul Bass created some of the most compelling images of American postwar visual culture. Having extend read more

I’ve been trying to get my sisters into classic movies for a couple decades now. I have failed utterly. Their objections are: I have to give some share of the blame to my mother, who has a weakness for Hayley Mills Disney flicks and insisted the three of us view them as kids; Pollyanna, That Darn read more

I’ve been trying to get my sisters into classic movies for a couple decades now. I have failed utterly. Their objections are: I have to give some share of the blame to my mother, who has a weakness for Hayley Mills Disney flicks and insisted the three of us view them as kids; Pollyanna, That Darn read more

There is so much sadness and turmoil in the world lately that it is sometimes hard not to despair. No matter how much we try, the enormity of the state of the globe can be scary and downright depressing. Watching the global mess on TV only adds to the sense of helplessness. When I am feeling overwhe read more

By Fritzi Kramer on July 20, 2014 in Blog, Feature, Silent Movie Review Sessue Hayakawa heads up this tale of Chinatown, opium smuggling and the Tong. He is a gangland assassin who is sent to kill a rival drug dealer. But wouldn’t you know it? His target has a beautiful daughter and Hayakawa has fa read more

San Diego Comic-Con has grown over the years from a sleepy exchange of comic books in a hotel basement to a massive pop culture Event, attracting hundreds of thousands of people to the San Diego area. There’s a lot beyond the blockbuster movie panels that seem to grab most of the headlines now read more

Hugh Allan, AKA Hugh Allen, it is difficult to ascertain exactly when Allan was born, he listed his birth date differently throughout his life (hum, it’s as though this is a recurring theme in movie-land?), keeping the same date of November 5, but changing the year, as suited him, I guess? On diffe read more

Hugh Allan, AKA Hugh Allen, it is difficult to ascertain exactly when Allan was born, he listed his birth date differently throughout his life (hum, it’s as though this is a recurring theme in movie-land?), keeping the same date of November 5, but changing the year, as suited him, I guess? On diffe read more

What is often overlooked when the discussion of the end of the silent era is had, or colorization for that matter, is that experiments with both color and sound occurred quite often before technology progressed such that it became a more practical feat. Many know that quite a few silents were hand read more