John M. Stahl’s superior melodrama is a focus point for the study of African-Americans in Hollywood. Businesswoman Claudette Colbert a housekeeper Louise Beavers raise their daughters together for a story that expresses the racial divide in simple terms. Determined to pass for white, Beavers’ daughter Fredi Washington rejects her mother outright. The tale of motherly sacrifice is in some ways more honest than later ‘social justice’ films about race, yet it sticks closely to Hollywood’s segregationist rules.
Imitation of Life
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1167
1934 / B&W / 1:37 Academy / 110 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date January 10, 2023 / 39.95
Starring: Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Louise Beavers, Fredi Washington, Rochelle Hudson, Ned Sparks, Juanita Quigley, Alan Hale, Henry Armetta, Hattie McDaniel, Paul Porcasi, Teru Shimada, Madame Sul-Te-Wan, Jane Withers, Dorothy Black.
Cinematography: Merrit Gerstad
Costumes: Travis Banton
Art Director: Charles D. Hall
Film Editor: Philip Cahn, Maurice Wright
Original Music: Heinz Roemheld...
Imitation of Life
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1167
1934 / B&W / 1:37 Academy / 110 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date January 10, 2023 / 39.95
Starring: Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Louise Beavers, Fredi Washington, Rochelle Hudson, Ned Sparks, Juanita Quigley, Alan Hale, Henry Armetta, Hattie McDaniel, Paul Porcasi, Teru Shimada, Madame Sul-Te-Wan, Jane Withers, Dorothy Black.
Cinematography: Merrit Gerstad
Costumes: Travis Banton
Art Director: Charles D. Hall
Film Editor: Philip Cahn, Maurice Wright
Original Music: Heinz Roemheld...
- 1/17/2023
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Two weeks ago, it was announced that Joel Kinnaman (The Suicide Squad) will be starring in The Silent Hour, an action thriller that’s set to be directed by Brad Anderson (The Call). Now Variety has broken the news that Kinnaman has been joined in the cast by Mark Strong (Zero Dark Thirty).
Anderson will be directing The Silent Hour from a screenplay by Dan Hall. When Kinnaman’s casting was announced, we were told he’ll be playing a Boston Police Detective who suffers an on-the-job accident that leaves him hearing impaired. Sixteen months later, he is now an interpreter for the department and must battle a team of corrupt cops attempting to eliminate a deaf murder witness in an apartment building.
Which made it sound like Kinnaman’s character will be taking on the team of corrupt cops by himself. Apparently that’s not the case, as Variety...
Anderson will be directing The Silent Hour from a screenplay by Dan Hall. When Kinnaman’s casting was announced, we were told he’ll be playing a Boston Police Detective who suffers an on-the-job accident that leaves him hearing impaired. Sixteen months later, he is now an interpreter for the department and must battle a team of corrupt cops attempting to eliminate a deaf murder witness in an apartment building.
Which made it sound like Kinnaman’s character will be taking on the team of corrupt cops by himself. Apparently that’s not the case, as Variety...
- 11/2/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Production start scheduled for early 2023.
Mark Strong has joined Joel Kinnaman on AGC Studios’ action thriller and AFM sales hour The Silent Hour.
AGC will finance and produce with producer Eric Paquette’s Meridian Pictures the story of a Boston Police detective (Kinnaman) who suffers an on-the-job accident which leaves him hearing-impaired.
Sixteen months later he is an interpreter for the department and with his friend and partner (Strong) must battle a team of corrupt cops attempting to eliminate a deaf murder witness in the apartment building where she lives.
Brad Anderson from an original screenplay by Dan Hall. Paquette...
Mark Strong has joined Joel Kinnaman on AGC Studios’ action thriller and AFM sales hour The Silent Hour.
AGC will finance and produce with producer Eric Paquette’s Meridian Pictures the story of a Boston Police detective (Kinnaman) who suffers an on-the-job accident which leaves him hearing-impaired.
Sixteen months later he is an interpreter for the department and with his friend and partner (Strong) must battle a team of corrupt cops attempting to eliminate a deaf murder witness in the apartment building where she lives.
Brad Anderson from an original screenplay by Dan Hall. Paquette...
- 11/2/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
BAFTA nominated British actor Mark Strong will star alongside the previously announced Joel Kinnaman in Boston-set crime thriller “The Silent Hour,” to be directed by Brad Anderson (“Beirut”).
Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios will finance and produce with producer Eric Paquette’s Meridian Pictures, and the project is being sold at the ongoing American Film Market.
Strong can currently be seen in the critically acclaimed Venice-winning film “Tár,” and is known for “1917,” “Cruella,” the Kingsman franchise and “Zero Dark Thirty.”
The film, based on an original screenplay by Dan Hall, follows Kinnaman (“Suicide Squad”), who plays a Boston Police detective who suffers an on-the-job accident which leaves him hearing impaired. Sixteen months later, he is now an interpreter for the department and with his friend and partner (Strong) must battle a team of corrupt cops attempting to eliminate a deaf murder witness in the apartment building where she lives.
Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios will finance and produce with producer Eric Paquette’s Meridian Pictures, and the project is being sold at the ongoing American Film Market.
Strong can currently be seen in the critically acclaimed Venice-winning film “Tár,” and is known for “1917,” “Cruella,” the Kingsman franchise and “Zero Dark Thirty.”
The film, based on an original screenplay by Dan Hall, follows Kinnaman (“Suicide Squad”), who plays a Boston Police detective who suffers an on-the-job accident which leaves him hearing impaired. Sixteen months later, he is now an interpreter for the department and with his friend and partner (Strong) must battle a team of corrupt cops attempting to eliminate a deaf murder witness in the apartment building where she lives.
- 11/2/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
British actor Mark Strong (Kingsman) has signed on to star opposite Joel Kinnaman in the action thriller The Silent Hour for AGC Studios and Meridian Pictures.
The film is set to start production in early 2023. Brad Anderson (The Machinist) will direct from an original screenplay by Dan Hall. Eric Paquette of Meridian Pictures will produce the Boston-set crime thriller along with AGC, who are presenting the film to buyers at AFM this week. Additional casting is ongoing.
In the pic, Kinnaman plays a Boston police detective who suffers an on-the-job accident that leaves him hearing impaired. Sixteen months later, he is now an interpreter for the department and with his friend and partner (Strong) must battle a team of corrupt cops attempting to eliminate a deaf murder witness in the apartment building where she lives.
The deal was negotiated by Jessica Kovacevic and Jordan Naftalis at WME on behalf of...
The film is set to start production in early 2023. Brad Anderson (The Machinist) will direct from an original screenplay by Dan Hall. Eric Paquette of Meridian Pictures will produce the Boston-set crime thriller along with AGC, who are presenting the film to buyers at AFM this week. Additional casting is ongoing.
In the pic, Kinnaman plays a Boston police detective who suffers an on-the-job accident that leaves him hearing impaired. Sixteen months later, he is now an interpreter for the department and with his friend and partner (Strong) must battle a team of corrupt cops attempting to eliminate a deaf murder witness in the apartment building where she lives.
The deal was negotiated by Jessica Kovacevic and Jordan Naftalis at WME on behalf of...
- 11/2/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Click here to read the full article.
Mark Strong (The Kingsman, Shazam!) will join Joel Kinnaman in The Silent Hour, a Boston-set action thriller from director Brad Anderson (Beirut, The Machinist).
Suicide Squad star Kinnaman will play a Boston Police Detective who suffers an on-the-job accident which leaves him hearing impaired. Working as an interpreter for the cops, together with his friend and former partner (Strong), he has to battle a team of corrupt police officers who want to eliminate a deaf murder witness in the apartment building where she lives.
Anderson will direct The Silent Hour from an original screenplay by Dan Hall. Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios will finance and produce the movie with producer Eric Paquette’s Meridian Pictures.
The Silent Hour is set to go into production in early 2023. Further casting is underway. AGC Studios is pre-selling the film at AFM this week.
Strong appears in the critically acclaimed Tár,...
Mark Strong (The Kingsman, Shazam!) will join Joel Kinnaman in The Silent Hour, a Boston-set action thriller from director Brad Anderson (Beirut, The Machinist).
Suicide Squad star Kinnaman will play a Boston Police Detective who suffers an on-the-job accident which leaves him hearing impaired. Working as an interpreter for the cops, together with his friend and former partner (Strong), he has to battle a team of corrupt police officers who want to eliminate a deaf murder witness in the apartment building where she lives.
Anderson will direct The Silent Hour from an original screenplay by Dan Hall. Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios will finance and produce the movie with producer Eric Paquette’s Meridian Pictures.
The Silent Hour is set to go into production in early 2023. Further casting is underway. AGC Studios is pre-selling the film at AFM this week.
Strong appears in the critically acclaimed Tár,...
- 11/2/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Screen is rounding up the key projects launched before and during this year’s American Film Market.
Screen International is rounding up the key projects launched before and during this year’s American Film Market.
Refresh the page for latest updates.
From the US
The Pack
Alexander Skarsgard marks his feature directing debut with this psychological thriller starring Florence Pugh. Production begins in March 2023. CAA Media Finance and 30West jointly represent US rights.
International sales: The Veterans
Immaculate
Sydney Sweeney produces (with Fifty-Fifty films) and stars in this psychological horror set in the Italian countryside. Michael Mohen will direct with...
Screen International is rounding up the key projects launched before and during this year’s American Film Market.
Refresh the page for latest updates.
From the US
The Pack
Alexander Skarsgard marks his feature directing debut with this psychological thriller starring Florence Pugh. Production begins in March 2023. CAA Media Finance and 30West jointly represent US rights.
International sales: The Veterans
Immaculate
Sydney Sweeney produces (with Fifty-Fifty films) and stars in this psychological horror set in the Italian countryside. Michael Mohen will direct with...
- 10/31/2022
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Click here to read the full article.
Paramount’s Smile, in theaters Sept. 30, is the latest fright flick to benefit from a sinister grin. But the granddaddy of all scary smile films dates back to 1928, when Universal Pictures released The Man Who Laughs, an adaptation of the 1869 Victor Hugo novel.
The studio had success with another Hugo novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which it had adapted into a Lon Chaney showcase in 1923. Chaney would physically transform once again into a deformed gothic antihero — this time, Gwynplaine, a nobleman’s son who is hideously disfigured when the king orders a permanent smile carved into his face. But the project was sidelined because of a rights issue, and Chaney instead made 1925’s The Phantom of the Opera, based on the 1910 Gaston Leroux novel. That film was a hit, too, so Universal chief Carl Laemmle resurrected Laughs for its next “super-production.”
To direct,...
Paramount’s Smile, in theaters Sept. 30, is the latest fright flick to benefit from a sinister grin. But the granddaddy of all scary smile films dates back to 1928, when Universal Pictures released The Man Who Laughs, an adaptation of the 1869 Victor Hugo novel.
The studio had success with another Hugo novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which it had adapted into a Lon Chaney showcase in 1923. Chaney would physically transform once again into a deformed gothic antihero — this time, Gwynplaine, a nobleman’s son who is hideously disfigured when the king orders a permanent smile carved into his face. But the project was sidelined because of a rights issue, and Chaney instead made 1925’s The Phantom of the Opera, based on the 1910 Gaston Leroux novel. That film was a hit, too, so Universal chief Carl Laemmle resurrected Laughs for its next “super-production.”
To direct,...
- 9/30/2022
- by Seth Abramovitch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Kiss Before the Mirror
Blu ray
Kino Lorber
1933 / 1.33:1 / 69 min.
Starring Nancy Carroll, Frank Morgan, Gloria Stuart
Cinematography by Karl Freund
Directed by James Whale
James Whale’s The Kiss Before the Mirror opens on familiar terrain for the director of Frankenstein—a moon-lit backroad littered with crooked trees and clutching branches. A figure tip-toes out of the darkness toward her destination—not a mad scientist’s castle but a swanky post-modern bungalow where her lover waits. The woman catches the moonlight quite well, thank you—she’s played by an incandescent Gloria Stuart and she has just escaped her husband for a rendezvous with a self-impressed roué played by the blankly handsome Walter Pidgeon. The two engage in pre-sex small talk that is so coy, so ear-grating, that it’s clear Whale is preparing them (and the audience) for some awful comeuppance.
Produced in 1933, The Kiss Before the...
Blu ray
Kino Lorber
1933 / 1.33:1 / 69 min.
Starring Nancy Carroll, Frank Morgan, Gloria Stuart
Cinematography by Karl Freund
Directed by James Whale
James Whale’s The Kiss Before the Mirror opens on familiar terrain for the director of Frankenstein—a moon-lit backroad littered with crooked trees and clutching branches. A figure tip-toes out of the darkness toward her destination—not a mad scientist’s castle but a swanky post-modern bungalow where her lover waits. The woman catches the moonlight quite well, thank you—she’s played by an incandescent Gloria Stuart and she has just escaped her husband for a rendezvous with a self-impressed roué played by the blankly handsome Walter Pidgeon. The two engage in pre-sex small talk that is so coy, so ear-grating, that it’s clear Whale is preparing them (and the audience) for some awful comeuppance.
Produced in 1933, The Kiss Before the...
- 1/23/2021
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
One of the quirks of Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna's annual jamboree celebrating restored or rediscovered movies, is that expensive products of the Hollywood studio system can be just as obscure and hard-to-see as low-budget oddities, foreign arthouse affairs and forgotten silents from a hundred years ago. Dave Kehr's retrospective of neglected items from Universal's vaults demonstrates this clearly.James Whale always liked to say By Candlelight was his favorite of his own films, bypassing the more celebrated Frankenstein films. It's a romantic comedy of confused identities and it's no surprise that P.G. Wodehouse had a hand in the stage source.But in this movie, when a butler impersonates his master in order to seduce a wealthy lady who turns out to be a maid impersonating her mistress, all the irony of Wodehouse's inversion of traditional ideas about class has gone. All right, so George Orwell argued persuasively that Wodehouse...
- 7/6/2017
- MUBI
Edgar G. Ulmer movies on TCM: 'The Black Cat' & 'Detour' Turner Classic Movies' June 2017 Star of the Month is Audrey Hepburn, but Edgar G. Ulmer is its film personality of the evening on June 6. TCM will be presenting seven Ulmer movies from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s, including his two best-known efforts: The Black Cat (1934) and Detour (1945). The Black Cat was released shortly before the officialization of the Christian-inspired Production Code, which would castrate American filmmaking – with a few clever exceptions – for the next quarter of a century. Hence, audiences in spring 1934 were able to witness satanism in action, in addition to other bizarre happenings in an art deco mansion located in an isolated area of Hungary. Sporting a David Bowie hairdo, Boris Karloff is at his sinister best in The Black Cat (“Do you hear that, Vitus? The phone is dead. Even the phone is dead”), ailurophobic (a.
- 6/7/2017
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
A striking contrast in the outset: an abundance of glass walls and virtual images (monitors, mobile screens) in a modern office building is cut to an aerial shot of solid, glacial mountains. Immediately after arriving at the main location where Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) meets his hi-tech tycoon employer Nathan (Oscar Isaac), Ex Machina's production designer Mark Digby sets the tone for what follows in a series of spatial and design contrasts between virtual and real, organic and artificial. Every window in the film, whether an architectural one or a computer window, opens to new images, to landscapes, physical and mental. Set almost entirely in one house, in Ex Machina the space of the film is also a parallel narrative supporting the main storyline. This is, among other things, a post-digital variation on the theme of “mad scientist.” There’s the eventual dysfunction of the scientist's over-designed laboratory, his competition with God,...
- 10/3/2016
- MUBI
The 911 call to Tyler, Texas, police early in the morning of Jan. 26 first reported a car crash - and then, a witness nearby told police he'd heard gunshots. Officers responding to the scene at 2:26 a.m. discovered a red Toyota Camry that had jumped the curb just shy of hitting a utility pole. The lone person inside, in the driver's seat, appeared to be female. The victim had been shot "several times," according to a criminal affidavit - and it was the shots, Officer Don Martin tells People, that caused the victim to lose control of the car. Declared...
- 2/11/2015
- by Jeff Truesdell, @jhtruesdell
- PEOPLE.com
Comic book characters are always dying and coming back to life. Whomever said “The only certainties in life are death and taxes” clearly didn’t have mutant healing factors and clones in mind when they said it. There are however a scant few comic book characters that have managed to stay dead. In honor of memorial day, here are eight such characters that we salute for having the decency to resist the temptation of resurrection (so far).
1.Ultimate Peter Parker – Death : Ultimate Spider-man #160
From it’s very inception the Ultimate Marvel Universe was a platform to tell stories free from mainstream Marvel continuity. Brian Michael Bendis took that to the extreme when he killed off Peter Parker in The Death Of Spider-man story arc and had Miles Morales take up the mantel of Spider Man. Peter died during a brutal fight with the Green Goblin in which he saved...
1.Ultimate Peter Parker – Death : Ultimate Spider-man #160
From it’s very inception the Ultimate Marvel Universe was a platform to tell stories free from mainstream Marvel continuity. Brian Michael Bendis took that to the extreme when he killed off Peter Parker in The Death Of Spider-man story arc and had Miles Morales take up the mantel of Spider Man. Peter died during a brutal fight with the Green Goblin in which he saved...
- 5/27/2014
- by Zachary Zagranis
- SoundOnSight
In celebration of the October 2nd Blu-ray release of the Universal Classic Monsters: The Essential Collection from Universal Studios Home Entertainment, veteran horror historian Scott Essman has prepared a truly monstrous trip back through time for you classic horror fans!
It’s a quiet dusty morning in the summer of 1916 and all but a small eastern region of the San Fernando Valley is largely undeveloped, to say nothing of unpopulated. For the past year, inside of an unassuming front gate just over the hill from Los Angeles proper, two men are trying to forge their path in the fledgling motion picture business: Lon Chaney and Jack Pierce. Nascent actors Chaney, 33, and Pierce, 27, were completely unknown, but each had an angle; they could both work magic out of a simple makeup case, fully transforming their faces and even parts of their bodies to put themselves into a better position to be cast in a role.
It’s a quiet dusty morning in the summer of 1916 and all but a small eastern region of the San Fernando Valley is largely undeveloped, to say nothing of unpopulated. For the past year, inside of an unassuming front gate just over the hill from Los Angeles proper, two men are trying to forge their path in the fledgling motion picture business: Lon Chaney and Jack Pierce. Nascent actors Chaney, 33, and Pierce, 27, were completely unknown, but each had an angle; they could both work magic out of a simple makeup case, fully transforming their faces and even parts of their bodies to put themselves into a better position to be cast in a role.
- 9/25/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
The 2012 TCM Classic Film Festival has unveiled another spectacular lineup of special guests and events for this year’s four-day gathering in Hollywood. Among the newly announced participants for this year’s festival are five-time Emmy® winner Dick Van Dyke, Oscar® winner Shirley Jones, two-time Golden Globe® winner Angie Dickinson, six-time Golden Globe nominee Robert Wagner, seven-time Oscar nominee Norman Jewison, longtime producer A.C. Lyles and three-time Oscar-winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker. In addition, the festival will feature a special three-film tribute to director/choreographer Stanley Donen, who will be on-hand for the celebration.
As part of its overall Style and the Movies theme, the festival has added several films featuring the work of pioneering costume designer Travis Banton. Oscar-nominated costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis will introduce the six-movie slate, with actress and former Essentials co-host Rose McGowan joining her for one of the screenings.
Other festival additions include a screening...
As part of its overall Style and the Movies theme, the festival has added several films featuring the work of pioneering costume designer Travis Banton. Oscar-nominated costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis will introduce the six-movie slate, with actress and former Essentials co-host Rose McGowan joining her for one of the screenings.
Other festival additions include a screening...
- 3/9/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
It was on this day, April 22 1935, that the Bride was born…
One of the most iconic images in all of horror cinema, the Bride has haunted our nightmares for 75 years now, an eerily beautiful, hissing figure covered in gauze from head-to-toe, draped in a brilliant but inelegant white shroud, and with flaming white streaks shooting up a jazzed, Nefertiti hairdo.
The Bride’s part in the 1935 Universal classic The Bride of Frankenstein is a small one, but it burns instantly and indelibly into one’s psyche, as the radiant Elsa Lanchester and the immortal Boris Karloff enact the ultimate nightmare version of a blind date.
The Bride of Frankenstein has endured for 75 years, its reputation as one of the great touchstones of early horror movies – and of Hollywood’s Golden Age — only looming larger as the decades tick past. The absolute zenith of the original Universal Horror cycle, Bride effortlessly combines everything: ghoulish chills,...
One of the most iconic images in all of horror cinema, the Bride has haunted our nightmares for 75 years now, an eerily beautiful, hissing figure covered in gauze from head-to-toe, draped in a brilliant but inelegant white shroud, and with flaming white streaks shooting up a jazzed, Nefertiti hairdo.
The Bride’s part in the 1935 Universal classic The Bride of Frankenstein is a small one, but it burns instantly and indelibly into one’s psyche, as the radiant Elsa Lanchester and the immortal Boris Karloff enact the ultimate nightmare version of a blind date.
The Bride of Frankenstein has endured for 75 years, its reputation as one of the great touchstones of early horror movies – and of Hollywood’s Golden Age — only looming larger as the decades tick past. The absolute zenith of the original Universal Horror cycle, Bride effortlessly combines everything: ghoulish chills,...
- 4/23/2010
- by Jesse
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
It’s an especially exciting weekend to be living in Los Angeles, as Turner Classic Movies comes to Hollywood for its first ever Classic Film Festival, a four day celebration of classic film, with 35mm screenings of some of the best films ever made, including the premieres of several notable restorations.
The screenings will take place across the Grauman’s Chinese, Mann’s Chinese and the neighboring Egyptian theatres. As part of the festival, the Roosevelt Hotel will play host to several panel discussions and celebrations, including a welcome party this evening at 4:30 pm.
Taking a glance at the schedule, fans of Famous Monsters have plenty to scream about — here’s an overview of the genre offerings that the festival will host:
Friday, April 23rd
2001: A Space Odyssey — Egyptian Theatre at 9:00 am.
Stanely Kubrick’s groundbreaking science fiction achievement, presented in full 70mm. With a screenplay co-written...
The screenings will take place across the Grauman’s Chinese, Mann’s Chinese and the neighboring Egyptian theatres. As part of the festival, the Roosevelt Hotel will play host to several panel discussions and celebrations, including a welcome party this evening at 4:30 pm.
Taking a glance at the schedule, fans of Famous Monsters have plenty to scream about — here’s an overview of the genre offerings that the festival will host:
Friday, April 23rd
2001: A Space Odyssey — Egyptian Theatre at 9:00 am.
Stanely Kubrick’s groundbreaking science fiction achievement, presented in full 70mm. With a screenplay co-written...
- 4/22/2010
- by Jesse
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
The title says it all. The year's almost over and...well, why shouldn't I do this list?
Here's how I went about it. I looked through all of this year's Ee columns (including those that came before the hiatus) and well, just looked. And the ranking doesn't really matter, except for my number one. Oh, and the top five. Because I rule this joint. And that's all.
Happy New Year!
20. What frigging help is it to the narrative for me to find out that some dude is riding an Otis elevator? As opposed to ... well, whatever other company makes elevators? --eddie
Not sure if you get them in other countries, but I occasionally come across elevators made by a company called Schindler. Which, of course, leads to me giggling out loud every time I enter one, before pointing at the Schindler logo and saying "Schindler's Lift!" to anyone else who...
Here's how I went about it. I looked through all of this year's Ee columns (including those that came before the hiatus) and well, just looked. And the ranking doesn't really matter, except for my number one. Oh, and the top five. Because I rule this joint. And that's all.
Happy New Year!
20. What frigging help is it to the narrative for me to find out that some dude is riding an Otis elevator? As opposed to ... well, whatever other company makes elevators? --eddie
Not sure if you get them in other countries, but I occasionally come across elevators made by a company called Schindler. Which, of course, leads to me giggling out loud every time I enter one, before pointing at the Schindler logo and saying "Schindler's Lift!" to anyone else who...
- 12/31/2009
- by Dustin Rowles
Apple has never done particularly well in Greenpeace's quarterly Guide to Greener Electronics. In the most recent guide it ranked near the bottom, at number 11 out of 18 electronics manufacturers. The company has taken some steps towards sustainability in recent years--most significantly by eliminating toxic chemicals like polyvinyl chloride (Pvc) and brominated flame retardant (Bfr) from its laptops. But Apple took its biggest step last Friday with the introduction of its Apple and the Environment website, which reveals all the dirty details of the company's environmental practices, including its overall carbon emissions (10.2 million metric tons, more than 2 million metric tons over Hp's and Dell's reported emissions).
The website features a lifecycle analysis of Apple products, information on packaging, material use, CO2 emissions per hour of product use, individual product environmental reports, and a timeline of Apple's environmental achievements.
Apple's disclosures seem likely to boost its rankings in the Guide to Greener...
The website features a lifecycle analysis of Apple products, information on packaging, material use, CO2 emissions per hour of product use, individual product environmental reports, and a timeline of Apple's environmental achievements.
Apple's disclosures seem likely to boost its rankings in the Guide to Greener...
- 9/29/2009
- by Ariel Schwartz
- Fast Company
Awareness about sustainably-farmed paper is relatively new among most corporations. Even the most progressive office supply companies, such as FedEx Office and Office Depot, only have environmental paper policies dating back to 2002. But that awareness is growing rapidly, thanks in large part to ForestEthics and the Dogwood Alliance's Green Grades Report Card. In the third annual report card, ForestEthics praises both FedEx Office and Office Depot for their paper policies, while Amazon.com and PaperlinX are called out for their lack of progress in the sector.
FedEx and Office Depot have been working with ForestEthics for years, which explains their high grades of A- and B. FedEx, for example, takes pains to avoid sourcing paper from endangered forests, and the company recently announced that the majority of paper in its Us copy centers will be Forest Stewardship Council (Fsc) certified. And Office Depot has the most detailed paper policy out of all the companies surveyed.
FedEx and Office Depot have been working with ForestEthics for years, which explains their high grades of A- and B. FedEx, for example, takes pains to avoid sourcing paper from endangered forests, and the company recently announced that the majority of paper in its Us copy centers will be Forest Stewardship Council (Fsc) certified. And Office Depot has the most detailed paper policy out of all the companies surveyed.
- 9/11/2009
- by Ariel Schwartz
- Fast Company
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