What a pleasure it has been to wallow in the 16-film Fassbinder retrospective this past two weeks. For various reasons it’s not been easy to see his films in the theater, but now that distributers Janus hold this selection of (very nice) subtitled prints, one can hope that they’ll resurface more frequently. The second […]
Film Preservation
A Stupendous Weekend of Fassbinder at The American Cinematheque – More To Come
We’re halfway through the American Cinematheque’s wonderful Fassbinder retrospective, and if it’s demonstrated one thing, it’s that a Fassbinder double bill is a hell of a lot of cinema. His work rate was so prolific that one would assume a film here and there to have been merely tossed off. Some of them were, […]
TCM Classic Film Festival: A Trip To The Moon and Other Trips Through Time, Space, and Color
As Serge Bromberg pointed out, he is engaged not only in the business of restoring films, but also of restoring audiences. The catalogue of his Lobster Films is superb, constantly swelling with newly restored titles, and Bromberg shares them with zeal. He was an entertaining host throughout the TCM Classic Film Festival weekend. The […]
Event: “Academy Returns to A Century Ago” with an evening of films from 1911
For the ninth consecutive year the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences presents an evening of films from 100 years ago in film history. This year’s program, “A Century Ago: The Films of 1911, Heroes and Heroines” will take place on Monday, November 7th at 7:30pm at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. […]
TCM Classic Film Festival: The Tingler (Dir. William Castle, 1959)
In the late 1950s, horror movie schlockmeister William Castle pioneered interactive in-theater gimmicks as a way to drum up audience cash (and buzzy word-of-mouth) at a time when television threatened to steal away the same moviegoers who had made the 1930s and ’40s boom years for the U.S. film industry. Whereas other filmmakers of the […]
