The Year 1904 in Film: A Watershed Year
A review of significant events and films of the year 1904. Includes a YouTube playlist of over 12 hours.
Author: Dan Willard
The Year 1897 in Film: The Debuts of Vitagraph, Mitchell & Kenyon, Denmark and Venezuela
A review of significant events and principle players in the year 1897 in film. Includes a YouTube playlist of 275 films.
The Year 1905 in Film: The Debuts of Max Linder, China, Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia
A review of significant events in the year 1905 in film and profiles of the principle players behind them. Includes a YouTube playlist of over 13 hours.
The Year 1906 in Film: The Debuts of Éclipse, Feuillade, Bosetti and Finland
A review of significant events in the year 1906 in film and profiles of the principle players behind them. Includes a YouTube playlist of nearly 20 hours.
The Year 1907 in Film: The Debuts of Éclair, Essanay and Kalem
A review of significant events in the year 1907 in film and profiles of the principle players behind them. Includes a YouTube playlist of nearly 18 hours.
The Year 1896 in Film: The Debuts of Georges Méliès, Pathé frères, American Mutoscope, Gaumont and Argentina
A review of significant events and principle players in the year 1896 in film. Includes a YouTube playlist of 256 films.
The Year 1908 in Film: The Debuts of Detective Films, Film d’Art, Peplum, Griffith and the Russian Film Industry
The Year 1908 in Film: The Debuts of Detective Films, Film d’Art, Peplum, Griffith and the Russian Film Industry. Includes a YouTube playlist.
The Birth of Cinema, 1874-1895
The Birth of Cinema: a review of the events and players who contributed to the development of the film industry from 1874-1895. Includes a YouTube playlist.
Seven Days in May (1964)
“Every now and then a man on a white horse rides by, and we appoint him to be our personal god for the duration. For some men it was a Senator McCarthy, for others it was a General Walker, and now it’s a General Scott.”
The Petrified Forest (1936)
I really enjoyed watching this film and looked forward to some scholarly insights on the commentary track by Eric Lax, co-author of a Humphrey Bogart biography and several other books.[…]
