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The Bologna beat goes on
Guy Borlée, Festival Coordinator for Cinema Ritrovato, in a pas de deux with Moira Shearer. DB here: Like most film festivals, Cinema Ritrovato is many festivals. There’s so much on offer you can...
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The ten-plus best films of … 1919
KT here, with some help from DB: Two entries are enough to create a tradition. Once again, at a time of year when critics are picking their 10-best lists for 2009, we jump back ninety years and give...
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A serial for the unserious
Please silence your mobile phone during the film! Le Pied qui étreint 1: Le Micro bafouilleur sans fil (1916). DB here, still in Yurrp: Today the Cinémathèque Française will celebrate Bastille Day by...
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How to watch FANTÔMAS, and why
DB here: He is, we’re told in the opening of the first volume, “The Genius of Crime.” Not a genius, the genius. And he doesn’t play nice. “Fantômas.” “What did you say?” “I said: Fantômas.” “And what...
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The ten best films of … 1920
High and Dizzy Kristin here: Three years ago, we saluted the ninetieth anniversary of what was arguably the year when the classical Hollywood cinema emerged in its full form. The stylistic guidelines...
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More riches from Bologna
We’re still catching up with last week’s generous Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna, the world’s premiere festival of restored and rediscovered films from all eras. DB here: O Segredo do corcunda (The...
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Catching up 99%
Clash by Night. DB here: Amplifications, corrections, and updates have been piling up over the last couple of months, and we began to realize that simply appending postscripts to older entries...
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Talks, pictures, and more
Hard though it is to believe, our dear friend and colleague Janet Staiger is retiring this year from her post as the William P. Hobby Centennial Professor of Communication at the University of Texas....
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What’s left to discover today? Plenty.
Der Tunnel (William Wauer, 1915). DB here: Being a cinephile is partly about making discoveries. True, one person’s discovery is another’s war horse. But nobody has seen everything, so you can always...
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