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The last month of pure, unadulterated movie watching!  It’s been fun, but at least I went out with a bang!  I watched fewer movies than I did in July, but I reviewed quite a few of them as part of my Summer Under the Stars series.  As always, if you missed one of my reviews you can click the read more

Lastly, and perhaps most obviously in a string of Madonna videos with musical touches, Madonna’s “Express Yourself” not only draws its inspiration from Metropolis but also is directed by David Fincher, who started in the music video trade before transitioning to feature films. read more

Introduction Enumerating how many artistic disciplines exist is not the purview of this series. Rather the idea of this series is to briefly explore an iteration, an instance, of another artform in the world of cinema. In an upcoming series of posts I will state that I believe that cinema is the ult read more

Prudence, the Pirate (1916) Status: Unknown Gladys Hulette gets another adorable vehicle in the form of Prudence, the Pirate. The plot involves a pirate-obsessed young lady who gets out of an arranged marriage by hiring a ship (complete with crew) and proclaiming herself a pirate captain. She then read more

Just a quick note for film and Precode lovers. The Media History Project is a wonderful source for an abundance of fan magazines from 1911 to 1963. They can be downloaded or viewed online for free depending on your internet capabilities. The element I love the best is that the website includes an ex read more

Just a quick note for film and Precode lovers. The Media History Project is a wonderful source for an abundance of fan magazines from 1911 to 1963. They can be downloaded or viewed online for free depending on your internet capabilities. The element I love the best is that the website includes an ex read more

With the third edition of the Festival de cinéma de la Ville de Québec coming September 19th to the 29th, it was recently released that the opening film this year will be Peter Landesman’s Parkland starring Paul Giamatti, Zac Efron, Billy Bob Thornton and Jacki Weaver. It is the first time read more

The Best Film You’ve Never Seen: 35 Directors Champion the Forgotten or the Critically Savaged Movies They Love (Robert K. Elder, 2013) Published June 1st 2013, this series of lesser known or underground films gives even a path that even the initiated of movies haven’t taken. It is al read more

Pamela Green and Jarik van Sluijs are founding partners at PIC Agency, an audio-visual communications studio focused on entertainment and motion design based in Los Angeles, California. For more than two years Green and van Sluijs have worked on a documentary that tells the story of Alice Guy-Blaché read more

Check out the UPDATE page for current info.  Hear ye, Hear ye! The Great Imaginary Film Blogathon is coming to Silver Scenes!   As the hosts of Silver Scenes, Diana and I ( Constance ), thought it might be a good idea to start a blogathon. Why? Because we'd like to get to know our reader read more

Check out the UPDATE page for current info.  Hear ye, Hear ye! The Great Imaginary Film Blogathon is coming to Silver Scenes!   As the hosts of Silver Scenes, Diana and I ( Constance ), thought it might be a good idea to start a blogathon. Why? Because we'd like to get to know our reader read more

Hear ye, Hear ye! The Great Imaginary Film Blogathon is coming to Silver Scenes!   As the hosts of Silver Scenes, Diana and I ( Constance ), thought it might be a good idea to start a blogathon. Why? Because we'd like to get to know our readers - stray wanderers included. And what better way t read more

Check out the UPDATE page for current info.  Hear ye, Hear ye! The Great Imaginary Film Blogathon is coming to Silver Scenes!   As the hosts of Silver Scenes, Diana and I ( Constance ), thought it might be a good idea to start a blogathon. Why? Because we'd like to get to know our reader read more

Bebe Daniels stars as a hypochondriac heiress who is threatened with a move to a ranch in Texas. She flees to what she thinks is a convalescent home but finds herself trapped on an island with a gang of rum runners– led by a pre-fame William Powell. Bebe doesn’t realize the danger she i read more

Here Madonna again (the theme started here) not only gets cinematic with many of the visuals emulating the halcyon days of Hollywood both on film and in promotionals stills but there are also references to many of the biggest stars of yesteryear in the lyrics. More specifically with regards to the p read more

Hey there, Recyclers! As part of the countdown to Robert Redford’s return to cinema (at least in front of the camera), The Film Experience is doing a series on our favorite fair-haired American legend. I contributed an article on my second or third favorite baseball movie, The Natural, yesterd read more

(Image: donherron.com) “This is an entirely imaginary story about the writer Samuel Dashiell Hammett, who… in the words of one of his most gifted contemporaries… helped get murder out of the Vicar’s rose garden and back to the people who are really good at it. The detective s read more

Film Studies for Free is a great resource for those interested in learning more about films and movies. In this post, they highlight some great listening opportunities and sites to download podcasts focusing on the history and study of film. Personally, I’ve listened to a few episodes of ̶ read more

So, speaking of different ways to study film and particularly whether someone who wants to be a writer and/or director should or needs to attend film school. here’s Kevin Smith’s take on the subject during a recent question and answer session: (***Fair warning: like pretty much everythin read more

Turner Classic Movies launched the TCM Classic Film Tour in New York City today, with a ribbon cutting ceremony featuring on-air host Robert Osborne and legendary actress Jane Powell, star of LUXURY LINER (1948), ROYAL WEDDING (1951) and SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS (1954). Afterward, Osborne and read more