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16 articles from 2009
D.W. Griffith in California
10 November 2009 5:00 PM, PST | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »
Los Angeles Filmforum will present "D.W. Griffith in California," on Sunday, Nov. 15, at 7:30 pm. at the Echo Park Film Center. At the screening, film scholar Tom Gunning will discuss D. W. Griffith and his early Californian films. Six of those Griffith productions will be screened: Man’s Genesis (1912, 17 min); The New Dress (1911, 17 min.); The Massacre (1914, 20 min); The Unchanging Sea (below right, 1910, 14 min.); The Sands of Dee (1912, 17 min); and The Female of the Species (1912, 17 min). All in 16mm, with live musical accompaniment by Cliff Retallick. Among the early stars featured in those shorts are Blanche Sweet, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Arthur Johnson, Wilfred Lucas, and, [...] »
- Andre Soares
India Picks Surprise Oscar Submission: Harishchandrachi Factory
8 October 2009 5:30 PM, PDT | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
Only three Indian films have been nominated for the best foreign film Oscar: 1957’s Mother India, Mira Nair’s Salaam Bombay in 1988, and Lagaan, in 2001. This year’s choice was a surprise, from 40-year-old rookie director Paresh Mokashi: Harishchandrachi Factory, the story of India’s first feature film. Made in 1913, Raja Harishchandra was directed by Dadasaheb Phalke, the D.W. Griffith of Indian cinema. Wrapped in January, the film has not been … »
'Ninja Assassin' Director James McTeigue Looks To Edgar Allen Poe For 'The Raven'
5 August 2009 11:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Edgar Allan Poe is no stranger to the movies. His literature has been adapted to film as early as 1908 and he was first portrayed onscreen in a D.W. Griffith short a year later. So it’s not always that exciting to hear about another Poe project in the works. However, I am very intrigued by this new movie coming from “V for Vendetta” director James McTeigue, which will fictionalize the writer’s mysterious final days.
/Film got the scoop on this project while interviewing McTeigue at San Diego Comic-Con. His latest, the upcoming “Ninja Assassin,” was screened at Sdcc and it opens this November. The Poe project is titled “The Raven,” though it’s not exactly based on the writer’s avian-centric poem. McTeigue claims it’s like a cross between Poe’s “The Raven” and the David Fincher film “Se7en.” Scripted by Hannah Shakespeare (Kevin Bacon’s “Loverboy”) and Ben Livingston, »
- Christopher Campbell
Scoring the Silents
13 July 2009 10:16 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Undertones: Volume 3 From the beginning of cinema theatre owners tried a variety of methods in which to add sound to film. Initially the reasons for the addition of sound varied from people being weirded out by seeing mute folks onscreen to utilizing it as a means in which to mask the noise made by the crude projectors playing the film. It soon became obvious to film exhibitors however that sound actually enhanced the tone and interpretation by the audience of the film. When the Lumiere brothers first demonstrated their films in 1895 in Paris, they had a piano player accompany the action on screen. The pianist would watch the screen and capture the changes of mood. When the first theatres opened in 1902 in the USA, methods such as using someone to create sound effects and/or dialogue as well as Thomas Edison’s synchronised disc (not always guaranteed to synchronise) proved »
- Ricky
2009 San Francisco Silent Film Festival—Line-up Preview
7 July 2009 8:17 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
[Our thanks to Michael Hawley for this write-up.]
July is here—which means it’s time to jump aboard the time machine and set the dial for 1920s San Francisco. The Sf Silent Film Festival (Sfsff) returns for its 14th glorious edition this weekend, and lucky Bay Area filmgoers (and scores of devoted out-of-towners) will get to relive the magnificent era of silent movies once more.
Sfsff is a first-rate act, which explains why it’s become the most prestigious annual event of its kind in the Americas. How so? First, you begin with a venue like the built-in-‘22 Castro Theater, perhaps the nation’s most beloved extant movie palace. Next you program an eclectic, challenging and fun group of films and exhibit them with the best possible 35mm prints. Then you hire the cream of internationally renowned silent movie musicians to accompany the films. Throw in a printed program of scholarly essays, informative slideshows before each screening, »
- Michael Guillen
Racist-movie 'Remix'
22 June 2009 12:00 AM, PDT | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »
President Woodrow Wilson famously described D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation" as "history written in lightning." Others have had less flattering things to say about this racist classic, even if it did virtually invent the modern feature film.
The latest chapter in the 94-year debate over the film is "Rebirth of a Nation," a "remix" by Paul D. Miller (better known as DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid), which is getting a weeklong run, alongside Griffith's original, at the Museum of Modern Art.
Performed for years as a multimedia piece, »
- By LOU LUMENICK
TCM Unveils Their List of Top 15 Most Influential Films of All-Time
13 April 2009 12:08 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) has just released their official list of top 15 most influential classic films of all time, the latest element in the network's 15th anniversary celebration and the launching point for a new feature at TCM.com in which the network says it will post a fresh list of movie favorites each day (although it actually looks like it is only going to be a weekly feature). The feature will be called TCM Dailies and will usually highlight five films, with a constantly changing theme. The lists will run from serious to silly, such as TCM's favorite car-chase movies, best slap scenes and top sequels. Perhaps the most unfortunate thing is that TCM will just be listing the films and not necessarily showing them. This would have been even bigger news had I been able to tell you the 15 films featured will be shown on TCM over »
- Brad Brevet
400 Screens, 400 Blows - Godard Told Me To
2 April 2009 6:03 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
400 Screens, 400 Blows is a weekly column that takes an in-depth look at the films playing below the radar, beneath the top ten, and on 400 screens or less.
Should you see Jean-Luc Godard's color, widescreen Made in U.S.A. (1 screen), which has recently been brought back from oblivion, restored and re-released by the great Rialto Pictures? Every film buff worth his salt knows that Godard re-wrote the rules of cinema and that he may be the most culturally and historically important filmmaker after D.W. Griffith, but what is he worth today? To be honest, he's worth everything. His films still provoke, and though some of the details of his arguments are stuck in the 1960s, the main thrust is still highly relevant. And no one has come along since that has accomplished anything close.Filed under: Columns, 400 Screens, 400 Blows
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- Jeffrey M. Anderson
David Chase Returns to HBO for New Miniseries
16 March 2009 10:27 PM, PDT | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »
Sopranos mastermind David Chase is returning to HBO for a new miniseries about the evolution of the Hollywood film industry during the past century. He’s developing the project with Sopranos executive producer Brad Grey. The series will be titled A Ribbon of Dreams, after Orson Welles' quote, "A film is a ribbon of dreams." Chase is writing the project and will executive produce with Grey. The mini starts off in 1913 and will follow two men -- a college-educated mechanical engineer and a cowboy with a violent past -- who form an unlikely producing partnership. The duo begin as employees of D.W. Griffith, then cross career paths with such Hollywood greats as John Ford, John Wayne, Raoul Walsh, Bette Davis and Billy Wilder. Through the eyes of the two main characters, as well as their children and successors, the mini will chronicle the growth of the film industry from »
- James Cook
HBO Sign 'The Sopranos' Creator for a New Mini-Series
16 March 2009 8:15 PM, PDT | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »
Having a household name after belting "The Sopranos", creator David Chase is lauded to return to TV shows by penning a brand new one. HBO were the one anticipating it by signing Chase to write and produce a mini-series called "Ribbon of Dreams" that would focus on Hollywood movie-making history from early 20th Century to the present day.
"We couldn't be more excited to be back in business with the master," said Richard Plepler, an HBO co-president. Chase who will direct the first episode of the mini, in return said "It gives me pleasure to think of working, together with Brad (Grey), with HBO again. These are all people who, obviously, occupy a special place in my heart."
Kicked off in 1913, two fictional characters, a cowboy with a violent past and a college-educated mechanical engineer, will appear working for famous filmmaker D.W. Griffith. They then bond an unlikely partnership that »
- AceShowbiz.com
Sopranos Mastermind Chase Reflects On The Birth Of Hollywood
16 March 2009 6:35 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
The Sopranos creator David Chase is developing a new TV miniseries about the birth of Hollywood.
The TV mogul is the brains behind Ribbon of Dreams, which will track the earliest filmmaking in California, beginning in 1913.
Chase will write and executive produce the miniseries, as well as direct the first episodes. Paramount Pictures chairman and CEO Brad Grey, who executive produced The Sopranos, will also serve as executive producer on the new miniseries.
The miniseries will feature actors portraying movie mogul D.W. Griffith, John Ford, John Wayne, Bette Davis and others.
The title of the HBO movie takes its name from movie legend Orson Welles’ description, "A film is a ribbon of dreams." »
Sopranos Godfather Taking Whack at Hollywood
16 March 2009 11:56 AM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Look who's muscling into the business. David Chase, the Emmy-winning mastermind behind The Sopranos, is returning to HBO for the first time since his groundbreaking mob drama ended in 2007 to write and produce an epic miniseries about the birth of Hollywood. No timetable has been set for its launch, but the project is titled A Ribbon of Dreams, after Orson Welles' description of the movies. It will chronicle the story of a mechanical engineer and a haunted cowboy who meet while toiling for D.W. Griffith in 1913 and decide to make movies together. Their partnership spans the silent era through the introduction of the talkies and also includes the dawn of television and... »
'Sopranos' creator back in business with HBO
16 March 2009 10:50 AM, PDT | The Watcher | See recent The Watcher news »
David Chase, the creator of "The Sopranos," is back in business with HBO. Not with a "Sopranos"-related project, but with "Ribbon of Dreams," a miniseries about the invention of cinema and the growth of Hollywood. The project, which doesn't have a release date yet, will follow two characters, a college-educated engineer and a cowboy with a violent past as they work together to produce films at the dawn of the motion-picture industry. "The miniseries will follow the two main characters as they begin as employees of D.W. Griffith, and then cross career paths with John Ford, John Wayne, Raoul Walsh,... »
- Tempo
Sopranos Creator David Chase To Make HBO Miniseries A Ribbon Of Dreams, a History of the Hollywood Film Industry -- So yeah, this could be the greatest thing ever.
16 March 2009 | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
David Chase, creator of "The Sopranos", universally acclaimed as one of the greatest TV series of all-time if not The greatest (to say anything different will have you cast out as a pariah in American society, you terrorist), is now set to create an HBO miniseries called "A Ribbon of Dreams" which chronicles the history of the American film industry. Yeah, every film journalist just climaxed a little at that news. To get more specific, The Hollywood Reporter says that " The mini, whose title comes from Orson Welles' "A film is a ribbon of dreams," will begin in 1913 and follow two men, one a college-educated mechanical engineer, the other a cowboy with a violent past, who form an unlikely producing partnership. The duo will start off as employees of D.W. Griffith, and then cross career paths with such Hollywood greats as John Ford, John ... »
On DVD: "Moving Midway," "The Midnight Meat Train"
17 February 2009 6:59 AM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
By Michael Atkinson
Say it again -- there's a film inside every family, and all you need is the head and heart to find it. (That is, you don't need to be the cursed Great Neck residents of "Capturing the Friedmans" or "Tarnation"'s Jonathan Caouette, and in some ways, it'd better for us all if you aren't.) Film journalist Godfrey Cheshire's "Moving Midway" (2007) has a deep ditch of historical soil to dig, but it's not a personal-regional family doc that focuses on dysfunction or tragedy; rather, its position is ironic and aciduously nostalgic. Originally from North Carolina, Cheshire may well be the most universally liked personage in contemporary New York movie critic culture (notoriously a small pond with mean fish; disclosure-wise, he is a friend), and his film comes both bearing an enormous amount of good will and receiving the same. I can't untie the extra-cinematic humanity from the film's threads, »
- Michael Atkinson
A Film Critic Digs Into His Family's Slave-Holding Past
16 February 2009 4:39 PM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
Say it again -- there's a film inside every family, and all you need is the head and heart to find it. (That is, you don't need to be the cursed Great Neck residents of "Capturing the Friedmans" or "Tarnation"'s Jonathan Caouette, and in some ways, it'd better for us all if you aren't.) Film journalist Godfrey Cheshire's "Moving Midway" (2007) has a deep ditch of historical soil to dig, but it's not a personal-regional family doc that focuses on dysfunction or tragedy; rather, its position is ironic and aciduously nostalgic. Originally from North Carolina, Cheshire may well be the most universally liked personage in contemporary New York movie critic culture (notoriously a small pond with mean fish; disclosure-wise, he is a friend), and his film comes both bearing an enormous amount of good will and receiving the same. I can't untie the extra-cinematic humanity from the film's threads, »
- Michael Atkinson
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