This silent film of various Boston sites isn't super exciting necessarily and there aren't even title cards to provide a narrative. But films of cities a century ago are pretty cool and a lot of you know Boston well, so have fun with it.
LGM film club
Silent films can be incredibly entertaining and not just the classic comedies. A great starting point is Victor Fleming's 1926 film Mantrap, starring Clara Bow as a woman on the.
I just loved Celine Song's debut film from last year. Widely acclaimed, one can easily see why. Two young Koreans have a crush on each other. But her family of.
Agnieszka Holland's Green Border is a brilliant film and very difficult to watch, in the same way that the greatest films about the Holocaust are. Holland has never shied away from Poland's difficult history and is happy to challenge the government, channeling other Polish directors...
This fascinating 1943 film, surprisingly out of MGM, is a great 10 minute introduction in the midcentury American art scene. It focuses on a few painters, some of which don't.
This 1938 animation is technically an advertisement for a toothpaste company, but it's not like tooth care comes up more than a couple of times in this 9 1/2 minutes..
Yesterday is history and so let's have tonight's film club be the highlights from last night's glorious game. Just inject it into my veins.
I need to run downstairs to watch my Oregon Ducks, but around here, why not just discuss one of the great movies that presumably all have seen. That's High Noon..
What could be more 70s than Kris Kristofferson singing "Help Me Make It Through the Night" with Miss Piggy? Nothing.
Watching Antonioni's Blow-Up continues two recent themes--checking off films I should have seen years ago and films from the counterculture era that are shockingly sexist. As a general rule, I am not a big Antonioni guy, especially after the mid 60s. The early Italian films...
I watched MASH the other night and it's interesting to compare it to The Graduate. The films both are huge male gaze activities, one more slapstick, the other supposedly more.
I decided to watch The Graduate for the first time since....college? Like, it might have been close to 30 years. A couple of things happen when rewatching classic films from.