Revisiting the Sundance Kid as Robert Redford Announces His Retirement from Movie Acting.
With the release of what has been announced as Robert Redford’s final film – the pleasant-but-unremarkable “Old Man With a Gun” – it...
Kino Lorber celebrates the First Women Filmmakers
In anticipation of a major blu ray release, Kino Lorber, along with the Library of Congress has scheduled two theatrical presentations...
Olive Thomas – A Talent Silenced Too Soon
In the January 6, 1920 issue of Exhibitor’s Trade Review, screen actress Olive Thomas gleefully announced during an interview that she...
Remembering Tim Moore, the beloved Kingfish
There is an unfortunate stigma attached to the Amos N Andy television series, being dismissed as insulting stereotypes misrepresenting an...
Humphrey Bogart - looking at a true cinema icon
“.... this is Duke Mantee...and he's hungry." Such is actor Humphrey Bogart's introduction in "The Petrified Forest" (1936), his entrance...
D.W. Griffith and the birth of cinema
David Wark Griffith helped give cinema its syntax. His importance to the medium's basics is beyond measure. Griffith’s gradual discovery...
A TRIBUTE TO JERRY LEWIS
Jerry Lewis was my personal friend for the last 25 years of his life. The last time I talked to him was on what turned out to be his...
Remembering HARRY LANGDON and my book on his silent films
Back in 2012, I did a book on Harry Langdon’s silent movies, and it turned to be a rather significant project at several levels. As to...
Remembering John Lennon on the anniversary of his passing
“Do you remember where you were and what you were doing when you heard John Lennon was murdered?” It is a question I am sometimes asked...
Women in silent comedies: Dorothy Devore
Often those who have only a rudimentary understanding of silent screen comedy will believe that it is, for the most part, a lot of...