Shawn Hall Four years after The Jazz Singer started Hollywood’s rapid shift to talking pictures, Charlie Chaplin stuck...
1930s
Horror has always been a genre tremendously suited for exploring the inner machinations of human desire...
I first watched All Quiet on the Western Front as a college freshman while falling head-first...
Over eighty years after his death, Cecil B. DeMille remains one of the most recognizable classic...
Of the three silent clowns, Lloyd’s sound career is the least discussed. Keaton’s MGM talkies stand...
With only a small handful of Easter related films, DeMille is easily the director most associated...
The canon of the greatest films constantly changes as each generation reevaluates yesteryear’s classics and rediscovers...
Film censorship is almost as old as film itself. By the 1910s in America, several states...
The transition from silent pictures to all-talking and all-talking sound films is often told as a...
This post on early Utah independent filmmaking is the second historical overview in my series...
