In 1946, Mr. Wilson (Edward G. Robinson) of the United Nations War Crimes Commission is hunting for Nazi fugitive Franz Kindler (Orson Welles), a war criminal who has erased all evidence which might identify him, with no clue left to his identity except “a hobby that almost amounts to a mania—clocks.” Wilson releases Kindler’s former […]
MORE ...In memory of the master filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni, his 1948 short film Nettezza urbana, aka Dustmen.
MORE ...Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1955 masterpiece Les Diaboliques stars the seductive Simone Signoret and his beautiful wife Vera Clouzot entangled in an intimate, criminal affair. Still gripping even by today’s standards, one wonders who is more diabolical, the characters in the film, or Henri-Georges Clouzot in his artfulness and precision crafting the first and perhaps ultimate psycho-drama. […]
MORE ...Sergei Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible trailer – 1944/1958
MORE ...Day of the Fight shows Irish-American middleweight boxer Walter Cartier during the height of his career, on the day of a fight with middleweight Bobby James, which took place on April 17, 1950. The film opens with a short section on boxing’s history, and then follows Cartier through his day, as he prepares for the […]
MORE ...Edgar Allan Poe’s classic The Tell-Tale Heart, written in 1843, was produced in 1941 and directed by Jules Dassin, a one-time assistant to Alfred Hitchcock. The film explores the visceral guilt a treacherous worker feels after he murders his boss in cold blood. He cannot escape his conscience as the mundane world around him suddenly […]
MORE ...Trip to Where is a propaganda film produced by the US Navy to warn sailors on shore leave about indulging in psychedelics, which were all the rage in the late 1960’s. The opening sequence, a psychoactive, surreal trip that lasts nearly 8 minutes, is enough to consider this an undiscovered masterpiece of psychedelic cinema. The […]
MORE ...Teenage girls … Tantalizing … AND Terrorizing! Gang Leader: There’s a gang … And I’m the boss! Schoolgirl: Oh. I see. HIGH SCHOOL HELLCATS Teacher: Biologically speaking, it’s a primary importance that men should want to mate. Class: Hey, that’s cool! Yeah! Woo hoo! Schoolgirl: What should a girl do? Join up with a gang, […]
MORE ...Magic in the Air, produced in the 1950’s, takes a deeper look at the process of television transmission including the technique and technology that still informs broadcasting in the 21st century. As the sold out, big game is about to begin, you think to yourself, “If I only had a ticket.” Thanks to the miracle […]
MORE ...“Ask Me, Don’t Tell Me,” produced in 1961, promotes the Northern California branch of the Youth for Services program which worked to transform juvenile delinquents in San Francisco into productive members of the community. Written by veteran San Francisco journalist George Dusheck, “Ask Me, Don’t Tell Me” was co-written and directed by esteemed cinematographer David Myers. […]
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