A CELEBRATION OF CLASSIC…
This is a great time to be a fan of vintage comedy, from the silent era onward. A brace…
THE LITTLE RASCALS AT…
My, how time flies. It was one hundred years ago that Hal Roach came up with the idea of…
THE AMAZING CHARLEY BOWERS…
In the early 1980s I attended the Ottawa Animation Festival, where I saw a handful of silent shorts that…
MOVIES ABOUT MOVIES: FROM…
With each passing year we see more documentaries about films and filmmakers. Some get only a passing nod while…
SAVING LOST FILMS, SETTING…
There is a bumper crop of interesting documentaries right now. Some of them play the festival circuit, others get…
BEFORE KING KONG: A…
Film buffs and aficionados of stop-motion animation have been frustrated for years because The Lost World, the 1925 feature…
BUSTER KEATON REMEMBERED AND…
A few weeks ago the International Buster Keaton Society (also known as the Damfinos) celebrated the 100th anniversary of…
