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Watch the Film That Invented Cinema: Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory in Lyon (1895)
The brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière are often referred to as pioneers of cinema, and their...
Scenes from Life in Paris During the 1920s, Colorized and Restored: Cafés, Notre Dame, Street Life & More
Few cities have been as romanticized as Paris, and few eras in Paris have been as...
My Conversation with Rebecca F. Kuang - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the audio, video, and transcript, here is the episode summary: Rebecca F. Kuang just...
The Golden Age of Japanese Cinema: Kurosawa, Ozu, Mizoguchi & Beyond
Oliver Hermanus’ latest film Living transplants the story of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru to postwar London. Apart...
Two Ways To Shoot The Same Scene: A Comparison of The Shop Around the Corner (1940) and You’ve Got Mail (1998) Shows How Filmmaking Changed Over the Decades
Some years ago, the Guardian’s Anne T. Donahue recommended, as an alternative Christmas movie, Nora Ephron’s...
Why Abel Gance’s 1927 Napoléon Is “the Most Creative Film Ever Made”
Since it came out this past November, Ridley Scott’s Napoleon has drawn a variety of critical...