Few movies in the history of the medium have been more relegated to the “film school” shelf than Battleship Potemkin:
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Few movies in the history of the medium have been more relegated to the “film school” shelf than Battleship Potemkin:
Phantom of the Opera might be the most adapted horror story this side of Dracula.
It has become a tradition for me to put off writing these Annual Recaps approximately half the following year.
I spent most of 2013 listening to Bruce Springsteen albums, and one thing I noticed is that his earliest records are confessional and immediate even when he’s inventing stories.
Clarence Brown is one of Hollywood’s great success stories you’ve probably never heard of:
The year 2025 was not a particular shining beacon for cinema in my eyes
Has it really been a whole year?
“The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
–W.B. Yeats, “The Second Coming,” 1919
I was a senior in college and a devotee of NBC’s Thursday night programming in September 2009 when Community premiered.
Hey film friends!