In 1955, the great documentarian Albert Maysles traveled around the Soviet Union visiting mental hospitals. It became his first film and here it is for you, albeit not the greatest.
I watched Abbas Kiarostami's brilliant 1990 film Close-Up the other night. I saw this probably 20 years ago and wasn't in a place to get it I guess. I thought.
This 1953 short is an absolutely outstanding satire of early television and the chaos it brought to households and neighborhoods. That's a first rate late film cameo! This was also.
Tonight's film club is the 1931 short Hot News Margie, starring Marjorie Beebe, who was a minor comedic star in the late 20s through the mid 30s. This is a.
I recently rewatched the extraordinary 1961 film The Exiles, directed by Kent MacKenzie. He got to know the Native community living in Los Angeles and shot a film about them,.
Happy Bastille Day you cheese-eating surrender monkeys. Enjoy this film from 1938 about the French military. I think we can all agree that this impressive display of force would be.
Wow, yet another film about work. Shocking I know. This is part of a 1978 BBC series looking at a week in the life of various groups of people in.
Tonight's film is 1893's "Blacksmith Scene," which I believe is the first film recording of work in history. Of course it is staged work, but still. It's an interesting minute.
