JOSEF VON STERNBERG’S SALVATION
It’s a cultural crime that several of Josef von Sternberg’s films no longer exist. We shouldn’t be cheated out of seeing anything created by the artist responsible for The Blue Angel, Morocco, and The Last Command. Fortunately, one rarity…
THE BEST FILMS AND PERFORMANCES YOU MISSED IN 2016 Pt. 2
How do good movies manage to slip through the cracks? Sometimes a distributor hasn’t spent enough money on advertising and promotion. It may be that the reviews aren’t strong enough. And sometimes people just aren’t attracted to a particular…
THE BEST FILMS AND PERFORMANCES YOU MISSED IN 2016 Pt. 1
Most avid movie fans I know spend January seeing the year-end releases that are being talked up for awards. I propose an alternative: why not seek out good films and great performances that the award-givers have overlooked? Almost all…
SILENT FILM ACTRESS STARS IN A FUND-RAISING VIDEO
That headline is not inaccurate, nor is it an example of hyperbole. 96-year-old Lassie Lou Ahearn is supporting a crowdfunding campaign to restore a 1927 film called Little Mickey Grogan in which she starred with Frankie Darro. As film…
