It's nice to feel wanted. Quite a few organazizations have requested that I participate in their year-end polls, post best-of-year lists on their websites, and so on. It's kind of…
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Now's the time that I'd normally be steering you all over to The Auteurs' Notebook for the Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report, but a frankly worrying communications glitch has…
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FYI, that Popular Mechanics piece on High-Def DVD that I alluded to a few times over the summer is finally in print, and on the web. The web manifestation contains…
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...or so he seemed, both as an actor and as a goodwill ambassador for show business in general and Tinseltown in particular. Van Johnson, seen above in 1949's In The Good…
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Harry Carey and Elmer Booth, The Musketeers of Pig Alley, directed by D.W. Griffith, shot by G.W. "Billy" Bitzer, 1912The above image never ceases to startle me. I mean, just…
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Zasu Pitts in Lazybones, Borzage, 1925Watch a sufficient number of silent films—particularly in a block—and you do get a renewed sense of how silent cinema represents an art form that's…
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