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Zombie myths trace their roots back as far as ancient Greece, and they have a particular infamy in West African culture, but the first portrayal on the silver screen of the reanimated dead ...
It's all about the Great War this weekend at the Landmark Loew's Theatre as two classic films will take over the big screen in honor of the 100th anniversary of WWI. "The Great Dictator" from 1940 ...
Two of the region’s best known silent film composers/accompanists, Peter Krasinski and Jeff Rapsis, will perform at two different venues, providing live accompaniment for classic films that ...
Mark the centennial of WWI at the premiere of "The Manhattan Front," an experimental and historical film about the labor movement in NYC during the war.
WILTON — It was the “Saving Private Ryan” of its time — a movie that took audiences deep into the heart of battle as experienced by a soldier whose life WWI silent film drama screened | A ...
There nothing better than seeing silent films with live music, especially in the cozy confines of Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 E. Lockwood in Webster Groves). This Sunday, February 15 th ...
The film stock that was used to shoot on-the-ground footage during World War I ran through the cameras at 13 frames per second. When it ran back, it either looked "choppy" to the eye or ran ...
A Rare 1914 Silent Film Was Considered Lost Forever. A Professor Rescued It From a Vault. A restored version of ‘The Oath of the Sword’ premieres Sunday in Los Angeles ...
It was called The Great War, and The War to End All Wars. World War I, which began 100 years ago, in July 1914, was many things – an orgy of mass slaughter, the first mechanized war, the first ...
Film production was nationalized following the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, and documentaries and silent films were produced to bolster Lenin’s cause. “The cinema is the greatest medium of ...
How a WWI film from 1919 set the stage for the zombie film genre. By Sarah Sicard ... have been in a French silent film about the horrors of World War I called “J’Accuse” ...