So much began and changed with Toland's eye and his camera. This film is short but remarkably comprehensive. The sequence rehearsing the low-angle shot in "Citizen Kane" is invaluable, even though I knew by reading how it was done. This…
Thanks for the link to Jana J. Monji.
Joan Chandos Baez, born January 9, 1941.
Each year, as film critics publish their top 10 lists, I can't help but feel a pang of genuine empathy for those who go unheralded - all those hard working wannabes and former television stars who'd poured their heart and…
Two foreign exchange students got me started. They gave me a big cardboard box of sci-fi mags they'd accumulated. They lived in a quonset hut behind Jim Moore's dad's heating oil company across the street, and were on my Champaign-Urbana…
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We showed this inspired film at Ebertfest 2009. It ran into copyright trouble involving the old records it used. Nina Paley then sidestepped copyright laws by making the film a gift under Wikipedia's Creative Commons. It has found so many…
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