Film History

‘Film Editing: The Art of the Expressive’ by Valerie Orpen is a highly theoretical examination of editing as an essential but greatly misunderstood aspect of motion picture production.

Since its premiere 60 years ago in September 1948, ‘The Red Shoes’ has been a part of our lives and is the ‘Gone with the Wind’ of dance films.

Dr. Strangelove was a confirmation of my growing belief about adults in positions of authority.

Da Capo has given us ‘The B List’ with film critics’ picks and observations about “low-budget beauties, genre-bending mavericks and cult classics.”

 ‘Dr. T’ reveals––as few others of its era did––the dysfunctional cracks in the post-war little box subdivisions that exploded in the 1960s

On the Waterfront represented a whole new style of picture-making to me. Filmed on the actual locations, it grabbed its audience and never let go.

Looking back at ‘Discreet Charm’, the time manipulation feels precious.

The book is a thorough, precise, comprehensive and deeply revealing analysis of its subject.

A fluffy musical with an innocuous title, Gold Diggers of 1933, contains a mother lode of social comment from characters who are thinly disguised call girls.

Though Leni Riefenstahl always denied she was a Nazi propagandist. Two recent biographies have unearthed damning evidence that she was a narcissist Nazi diva who legitimized the Nazi ideals of …