This valentine to silent movies is a sweet romantic comedy, a celebration of the dreams and fantasies, and magic of the movies of every age.
Category: film history
‘Millennium Actress’ – Satoshi Kon’s celebration of cinema free on Hoopla
As loving and perceptive a tribute to the power and legacy of movies as I’ve ever seen, Satoshi Kon’s animated drama Millennium Actress (Japan, 2001) deftly weaves history and film and memory into an imaginative meditation on way the movies become a part of our lives. It’s Not exactly the first thing you’d expect from […]
‘Dawson City: Frozen Time’ – Film/history on Criterion Channel and free on Kanopy
Bill Morrison’s films straddle film history and avant-garde expressionism, mining the wealth of silent film history and exploring the abstract beauty of decaying nitrate film, a particularly volatile medium that breaks down over time. Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016) celebrates the “Dawson Film Find” of 1978, thousands of reels of film buried in the permafrost, […]