Film History

Recording this week's Oscar Podcast, we touched briefly on Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes. We...

Fast forward through 135 years of film history in 3 minutes.

Steven Spielberg and George Lucas describe dire developments at the unveiling of USC's School Of Cinematic Arts (SCA) Complex (photo...

Is there anything worthwhile left to say in movies? More and more it feels like the end of something beloved...

As we fumble towards some kind of symbolic permanence in our lives we sometimes land where we shouldn’t, in places...

  This week the Supreme Court is hearing arguments on two historic cases that seek to expand the scope and...

Soon after completing Lolita in 1962, Stanley Kubrick, Peter George and Terry Southern took a straight-laced Cold War thriller novel...

Nick James' introduction to the Sight & Sound poll results gives us some insight into their methodology: As a qualification...

Indiewire's Criticwire addressed today this question from a reader: "I mentor a 14-year-old from Harlem and nothing would make me...

Discovered this on Behind the Scenes via David Hayes' Trigger Street Labs Qute a treasure. The video quality is about...

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Check out the background essay at The Playlist Jose Gallegos wrote to accompany his affectionate video tribute to French film...

(clip at criticalpast.com) Take one, take two, take three... ...and take four: "Thank you very much, Miss Fontaine. Very difficult...

If you like the uneasy feeling of ambiguity surrounding the final identity The Thing, then don't watch this fairly convincing...

After the cut, Martin Scorsese and Jim Jarmusch talk about the scene Scorsese's mother improvised in Goodfellas. (via Movies.com and...

All of Alfred Hitchcock's cameo appearances in less than 4 minutes.

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The Film Society of Lincoln Center inaugurates the new Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center with an opening night conversation between...

Lawrence Olivier as Don Corleone? It almost happened. Open Culture explains: During casting, Paramount executives originally pushed for Laurence Olivier....