Everybody's favorite movie decade: Which ones are the best movies released in the 20th century's second decade? Best Film (Pictured above) Broken Blossoms: Barthelmess and Gish star as ill-fated lovers in D.W. Griffith’s romantic melodrama featuring interethnic love. Check These Out (Pictured below) Cabiria: is considered one of the major landmarks in motion picture history, having inspired the scope and visual grandeur of D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance. Also of note, Pastrone's epic of ancient Rome introduced Maciste, a bulky hero who would be featured in countless movies in the ensuing decades. Best Actor (Pictured below) In the tragic The Italian, George Beban plays an Italian immigrant recently arrived in the United States (Click below for film review). Unfortunately, his American dream quickly becomes a horrendous nightmare of poverty and despair. Best Actress (Pictured below) The movies' super-vamp Theda Bara in A Fool There Was: A little...
- 3/27/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Today marks the 100th birthday of Universal Pictures and to celebrate the studio has released a list of 100 facts based on its first 100 years in existence. I have placed in bold some of the ones I found interesting as well as offered a selection of photo and video accompaniments here and there. 1. Universal Film Manufacturing Company was officially incorporated in New York on April 30, 1912. Company legend says Carl Laemmle was inspired to name his company Universal after seeing "Universal Pipe Fittings" written on a passing delivery wagon. 2. The only physical damage made during the filming of National Lampoon's Animal House was when John Belushi made a hole in the wall with a guitar. The actual Sigma Nu fraternity house (which subbed for the fictitious Delta House) never repaired it, and instead framed the hole in honor of the film. 3. The working title for Et: The Extra Terrestrial was "A Boy's Life.
- 4/30/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Cinematic sleaze has been with us as long as … Well, as long as cinema has been invented. What else are you going to do with a camera except convince some woman to take her clothes off in front of it? The history, trajectory and influence upon mainstream media of the exploitation film circuit is lovingly chronicled in Elijah Drenner‘s fun romp American Grindhouse. However, like the salacious marketing gimmicks and hucksterism that drew in audiences to tawdry theaters that this documentary gleefully covers, could equally apply to the way Drenner has structured his film. (Note: Film is 100% Nsfw.)
American Grindhouse starts off with a bang with aficionados of cinema’s dark underbelly, like directors John Landis, Joe Dante and William Lustig, exuberantly describing the seedy neighborhoods of Hollywood Boulevard and Times Square of the ’70s where one could go see gore, mayhem and nudity for cheap on the big screen.
American Grindhouse starts off with a bang with aficionados of cinema’s dark underbelly, like directors John Landis, Joe Dante and William Lustig, exuberantly describing the seedy neighborhoods of Hollywood Boulevard and Times Square of the ’70s where one could go see gore, mayhem and nudity for cheap on the big screen.
- 2/13/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Traffic in Souls (1913) Direction: George Loane Tucker Screenplay: Walter MacNamara Cast: Ethel Grandin, Matt Moore, Jane Gail, William H. Turner At the time of its release, the scandalous Traffic in Souls, one of the first feature films made in the United States, became a huge moneymaker. This moralistic/sensationalistic melodrama about the white slave trade — immigrant women are forced into prostitution in New York City — remains watchable chiefly because of director George Loane Tucker‘s sure touch. Tucker became a major name in the 1910s — The Miracle Man (1919), starring Thomas Meighan, Betty Compson, and Lon Chaney was another major hit — but he had his career cut short by illness. He died in 1921 at the age of 49. Unfortunately, most of his films are now lost. (Just as unfortunately, only fragments remain from The Miracle Man.) Traffic in Souls stars Ethel Grandin and Matt Moore, both of [...]...
- 8/25/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Fans of weird cinema, and/or those for whom 42nd St. during the '70s means anything, your film is on its way to SXSW. American Grindhouse, a movie that needs no introduction beyond its title, will be showing to the delight of many and the horror of... probably many as well. There's a world of fascination behind the cultural phenomenon, and now you've got your chance to explore it. The feature-length documentary American Grindhouse explores the hidden history of the American Exploitation Film. The movie digs deep into this often overlooked category of U.S. cinema and unearths the shameless and occasionally shocking origins of this popular entertainment. Exploitation Cinema has left an indelible mark on American culture, and this informative and amusing documentary proves that its principles—and popularity—endure to this day. Starting at the turn of the 20th Century, Exploitation Cinema emerged from the tents of carnie sideshows,...
- 3/5/2010
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
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