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When naming the key filmmakers who have emerged in the past 50 years, there are too few names associated with comedy. Woody Allen is...
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When naming the key filmmakers who have emerged in the past 50 years, there are too few names associated with comedy. Woody Allen is...
The comedy of Charlie Chaplin was really my introduction to the world of silent film, and the rich history of film produced during those...
One of the most prolific show business figures, Bob Hope is mainly remembered today for his work with the USO tours and his NBC...
As a performer, writer and director, Jacques Tati holds a very special place in the pantheon of great screen comedians. Though he made only...
Cecil B. DeMille’s name is still widely known more than 60 years after his death, and his reputation for historical and biblical dramas on...
Of all fictional characters in film and literature, perhaps the one that has endured the longest is that of Arthur Conan Doyle’s famed supersleuth,...
William Cameron Menzies was the movies’ first production designer. Although there had been art directors and set designers working on films since its earliest...
I finally had a chance to see Paramount’s restoration of the studio’s 1927 silent classic, WINGS, on DVD – which is most famous today...
In the annals of classic screen comedy, there are perhaps no more hotly debated yet enduring comedians than the Three Stooges. A vaudeville, and...
When naming the great screen comedians of the Golden Age of Hollywood, two names that are all too frequently absent are those of Bert...
With the news of the big-screen showing of Abel Gance’s 1927 silent masterpiece Napoleon at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival coming up, I...
Today, the idea of multiple directors working on a film is almost unheard of. Since the rise of the “auteur theory” in the 1960s,...
Before Charlie Chaplin, before Buster Keaton and before Harold Lloyd, there was Max Linder. Chaplin called him his “professor”, and Linder’s comedies contain sequences...
Before CGI spectacles filled movie screens, the realm of wondrous and delightful special effects drew on a variety of creative techniques to bring new...
There is perhaps no more frequently yet unfairly maligned genre than the movie musical. Like many genres, it had a strong heyday during the...
As a fan of genre movies, one of the genres I find myself returning to the most is the horror film. Perhaps because it’s...
One of the most durable of all genres in American film, the Western has had a long and often complicated history as part of...
UCLA has announced an exciting new effort to preserve some of the most beloved comedies of all time. News of preservation efforts are always...
During the golden age of Hollywood, a staple of Saturday morning matinees was the movie serial. Over the course of 12 or 13 weeks,...
Mel Brooks is one of America’s most beloved comedians and directors. Since 1968, he has been creating a succession of comic works that have...
We all have our favorite films by our favorite directors, whether it’s Hitchcock films like North by Northwest and Psycho, or Kubrick with 2001:...
Produced by Morgan Spurlock, Jeremy Chilnick, Abbie Hurewitz, Keith Calder, Jessica Wu Directed by Morgan Spurlock Morgan Spurlock’s documentaries always begin with an incredible...
The fantasy film has proven to be one of the most durable of all genres. It started in full at the end of the...
One of the most beloved groups of films in American comedy is the “early, funny” work of Woody Allen – the five films he...