This Quarter in Film History

There was a small group of women who had exceptionally successful editing careers that started almost at the birth of cinema and continued for much of the 20th century.

Why ‘Sweet Smell’ Succeeded

I grew up in a Long Island suburb  among people about whom a friend once said, “If they can’t eat it or wear it, they don’t want it.”

“It was possible to create a Mexican cinema with our own actors and our own stories, without having to photograph gringos.”

Since making his first independent film, “The Return of the Secaucus Seven,” Sayles has established a unique relationship with the industry.

By the time film pioneer Georges Méliès made this only slightly exaggerated claim, the making and exhibition of narrative film was establishing itself as a business separate from the variety …

Prisons are not visually attractive. That may be why prison movies were not a significant genre during the silent era. But after the introduction of talking pictures and as sound …

Kurt Vonnegut dedicated his 1976 novel ‘Slapstick’ “to the memory of Arthur Stanley Jefferson and Norvell Hardy” — better known as Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. In the novel’s prologue, …

Over the decade leading to 1973, with the progress achieved by the civil rights movement, a greater awareness emerged in the African-American community of its own history and culture. Despite …

From the age of six, Ada McGrath refuses to speak, yet film audiences first saw and heard how clearly she communicates on May 15, 1993, when Jane Campion’s ‘The Piano’ …