On the twentieth anniversary of Victor Mature passing, his only child Victoria Mature asked fans to honor his memory. I share an amazing quote from Victor’s third wife Dorothy Stanford Berry.
On the twentieth anniversary of Victor Mature passing, his only child Victoria Mature asked fans to honor his memory. I share an amazing quote from Victor’s third wife Dorothy Stanford Berry.
Dita Von Teese tells how Technicolor movies influenced her look.
Mark Gatiss places horror within the collective dream of cinema.
For International Women’s Day, let’s take a moment to remember a woman of words, Anita Loos. She started screenwriting in the silent era, and she’s credited for elevating the intertitle beyond the functional into an art form. A wordsmith, wit, and satirist, her intertitles had zing. Yes, they had “It.” It’s likely her exposure to the family tabloid…
“Silent cinema can become like an hypnotic experience. I think you can get entranced. It’s almost like a voodoo experience. At least it has happened to me, and I really believe that some of film viewers, they have to give a chance to silent cinema because they have to be brave, because I have a…
“One of the things that Scorsese said right from the beginning was that I want silence, silence, as much silence as possible. Of course the instinct of the sound editors is always to put tons of sounds in–things echoing, footsteps echoing, dripping water, and all of those things. When I first went in to do…