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Fritz Lang

E-Bits: The Sound of Silence

There comes a time when enough is enough. A reminder of the horrors of war that surfaced last month is "The Blood of Dresden," by Kurt Vonnegut, excerpted from posthumously discovered papers in a new book, "Armageddon in...

On Movies: Now she's Princess Screwup

By Steven Rea Inquirer Movie Columnist and Critic TORONTO - Anne Hathaway still doesn't quite get what Jonathan Demme saw in her to make him believe she'd be right for the lead in Rachel Getting Married. "I mean, was it my work...

Jadis: Santa Monica Prop Shop

Need a huge, double-pole, triple-throw knife switch? Well, if you're trying to create a new life form out of a bunch of left over body parts, you really can't do without one. It's the thing you pull before the thunder crack....

The gangster movie goes back to its Italian roots

L ast week we talked about how Hollywood fared in the Great Depression (quite well, surprisingly), and one of the emerging genres that helped the studios through those tough times was the gangster movie.

A film retrospective: Jean-Luc Godard at 50

Oak Street Cinema looks back at the French provocateur. Theater: Oak Street Cinema Godard is one of the most influential, creative, polarizing, infuriating and memorable filmmakers of the past half-century. His first feature,...

European Epic Films of the Early 1920s

Leaves from Satan‘s Notebook, Die Nibelungen, Battleship Potemkin Early in the 1920s, at the beginnings of their lengthy and illustrious careers, directors Carl Theodor Dreyer, Fritz Lang, and Sergei Eisenstein turned to making...

UT Dallas' Centraltrak talk to feature crime, violence and art

“ ‘But here we'll have fun....’: Crime, Violence and Art in Weimar Berlin” When: Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Continuing their series of open-to-the-public classroom discussions, the folks at the University of...

'City of Ember': Post-apocalyptic fantasy

'On the day the world ended, the future of mankind was carried in a small metal box . . ." So goes the voice-over (of Tim Robbins) at the start of City of Ember, a post-apocalyptic parable based on Jeanne Duprau's children's...

Film Notes: Horror reunion in Erie

It should be a moment in horror history. For only the second time since "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" was released in 1974, key cast members will be reunited, for the 2008 Eerie Horror Film Festival at the Warner Theater in...

The Holocaust, Tarantino-style: Jews scalping Nazis...

BERLIN - For weeks, Germany's tabloids and culture pages have been preoccupied with Quentin Tarantino's film "Inglorious Bastards," slated to start filming next week in Germany. While the tabloids are drooling over the movie's...

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