2016-03-19 18:53
Jorgen Leth's 1967 mock-serious film study of the human animal, The Perfect Human, is just one of those things that delights me and makes me giggle irrepressively. Somehow it manages to be b… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
Not really. That's just the tagline for A Woman's Face. Today is Joan Crawford's birthday and in honor of that fact what could be better than a film that pairs her with Conrad Veidt? Direc… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
I love Halloween. Especially the iconic images of Halloween: the gypsy fortune teller driving her cart through a forest at night, lit by a solitary lamp; ghostly women in diaphanous gowns wh… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Two giants of mid-century European cinema died this past week. Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni were responsible, in their own highly individualistic ways, for creating films that… Read More
2007-07-20 21:14
Looking for something to write about (I seem to be temporarily out of ideas) I checked my favorite celebrity birthday site and realized that it was Hume Cronyn's birthday on July 18. A grea… Read More
2007-07-10 14:23
It took a long time, but KDOC has finally realized that their success as an all-reruns all the time station lies in its ability to tap the retro/vintage crowd. Their programming is still ec… Read More
2007-07-05 15:07
Last Christmas my mother gave me the Marlene Dietrich Glamour Collection DVD box set from Universal. Pleasantly surprised that my mother, unlike some, pays enough attention to realize that… Read More
2007-06-04 21:36
Though I am probably in the minority here, I am excited about the recent release of Season One of Banacek on DVD. A cop drama from the early 1970s, Banacek starred George Peppard as a Polis… Read More
2007-05-12 21:16
Is it your fondest dream to watch the greatest American comedy on the big screen and in the presence of an appreciative audience? If it is, you're in luck because Wednesday night Some Like… Read More
2007-05-09 18:41
The semester is finally over and I have finished college. Audible sigh. This year has been the hardest of the four (actually more like five) that I've spent in college and I feel as though… Read More
2007-04-18 23:44
The Noir Festival at the Egyptian Theatre is back again and LA noir is dukin' it out with New York. Though they're showing a great collection of films, my prejudice leans to the films set… Read More
2007-03-20 02:58
A great example of British kitchen sink realism, Tony Richardson's 1962 "angry young man" film, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, has just been released on DVD. Colin Smith (Tom C… Read More
2007-03-13 04:56
Paul Leni's 1924 film Waxworks (Das Wachsfigurenkabinett) stars Emil Jannings as The Caliph, Conrad Veidt as Ivan the Terrible, and Werner Krauss as Jack the Ripper in a story about a young… Read More
2007-03-04 02:31
Imitation of Life, All I Desire, Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows, melodrama never got any better than in the hands of "weepies" master Douglas Sirk. In celebration of Sirk's "… Read More
2007-03-03 15:16
Contraband (1940) was the first movie Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger fully collaborated on after making The Spy in Black the year before. A comic thriller set in a London blackout, Co… Read More
2007-02-18 01:32
All Through the Night (1941) is a delightful romp through wartime propaganda. A comedy thriller with Bogart as a wisec… Read More
2007-02-18 01:27
From March 2 to April 7 LACMA will be showing new 35 mm prints of 23 of Janus Films' essential art house collection. All your favorites from film studies are here: Rashomon, The 400 Blows… Read More
2007-02-07 16:08
In answer to your question...No, I haven't tired of Conrad Veidt yet. I'm still enthralled. My most recent experience was the 1921 epic The Indian Tomb written by Fritz Lang, but directed… Read More
2007-01-31 17:04
I love a theme and apparently the folks at Kino Video do, too. In order to celebrate the "romance and heartbreak" of Valentine's Day they're taking 30% off their series of "Love Gone Wrong"… Read More
2007-01-26 16:16
In an attempt to deny the fact that school has started again I have provided myself with a pointless obsession, the films of Conrad Veidt. Between those crazy kids at netflix and the used V… Read More
2007-01-15 16:36
If you’re like me, you’ve only seen Conrad Veidt in a couple of films: as the sleepwalker in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), as the mean, nasty Major Strasser in Casablanca… Read More
2006-09-27 15:44
Dayna Goldfine and David Geller’s 2005 documentary about Colonel de Basil’s Ballet Russes de Monte Carlo and the subsequent “ballet wars” is out on DVD. Good news fo… Read More
2006-09-22 15:43
Feeling nostalgic? Longing to go back and revisit your punk rock past? Well, pull the docs out of the closet and head on over to the Arc Light because American Hardcore is showing tonight… Read More
2006-09-22 15:41
On Saturday, September 23 at 7:30pm, American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre will be showing a group of film shorts that deal with life in the near future. While I have not seen the m… Read More
2006-09-18 14:52
"I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is a whole world of difference."With her breathtaking beauty and enigmatic persona, Greta Garbo remains the… Read More
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