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Desolation Row: Five Pictures of the Future in a Paul Ryan/Mitt Romney America

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney, Starvation, Hunger, Fritz Lang, Budget, h.g. Wells, Paul Ryan, Disease, Congress, 2012 Election, Elections 2012, 112th Congress, Paul Ryan Endorsement, Politics News

Economic radical Paul Ryan has endorsed Mitt Romney, Romney's embraced the Ryan budget, and the House Republicans have voted to enact the Romney/Ryan vision of the future into law. Yet an eerie silence has settled over the vision itself.

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Should Hipsters Wear Monocles?

Harmon Leon | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Monocle, Fritz Lang, Monopoly, Headlamp, Comedy News

A monocle has everything a hipster craves. It complements a twirly mustache. Perfect! Using facial muscles to hold a monocle in place causes one to sneer. Excellent! A monocle creates the impression that the person knows everything there is to know. Fantastic!

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On The Artist, The Lure of Nostalgia, and Ten Silent Movies Worth Talking Up

John Farr | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Metropolis, The Academy Awards, King Kong, The Artist, Margin Call, Battleship Potemkin, Martin Scorsese, The New York Times, G.W. Pabst, Best Movies on DVD, Buster Keaton, D.W. Griffith, Silent Film, Best Movies by Farr, Best Movies, Silent Movie, Hugo, Thirteen/WNET, Louise Brooks, F.W. Murnau, Charlie Chaplin, Sergei Eisenstein, Ernst Lubitsch, A.O. Scott, City Lights, Fritz Lang, Hollywood, Entertainment News

Just when you start believing there's no hope for anything daring and original coming out of Movieland, something gets released that surprises you. The Artist is one such movie -- and what's new about it is that it's old.

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Our Cinematic History Is At Stake: Film Archives And Apocalypse In 0's And 1's

Vivian Norris | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Eclai, Metropolis, Film Preservation Digital Film, Film Archives vs. Digital, Anthology Film Archives, Cinemateque De France, Digital, Archives, Digital-Film, Film Preservation, Kodak, Film History, Fritz Lang, Entertainment News

What would it take to wipe out a digital archive? What would it mean when all of our archives of film, books, everything stored in digital form is wiped out during intense solar storm electro-magnetic activity?

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VIDEOS: Hero Swag: 14 Of Film's Most Stylish Characters

Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Leroy Wallace, Mia Farrow, Samuel L. Jackson, Chinatown, Glenn Ford, Academy Awards, Malcolm McDowell, Pulp Fiction, No Country for Old Men, Ryan Gosling, Faye Dunaway, Rosemary's Baby, A Clockwork Orange, Movies, Cinema, Video, Rebel WIthout a Cause, Reggae, Wes Anderson, Alain Delon, Fritz Lang, Jayne-Mansfield, The Royal Tenenbaums, James Dean, Tetsuya Watari, Rockers, Drive, Gwyneth Paltrow, Film, Le Samourai, The Girl Can't Help It, Javier Bardem, Foxy Brown, Tokyo Drifter, Pam Grier, The-Big-Heat, Anton Chigurh, Arts News

From the slick noir of Melvillie's Le Samourai to Drive's homage to new wave, style can be just as important to films as narrative itself—sometimes ...

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Weekend Agenda: 'Metropolis' Jams Out, CycLAvia & More!

| Katie Bain | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Metropolis, BAM Festival 2011, Los Angeles Weekend to Do List, Giorgio Moroder?S Metropolis, Esotouric, Los Angeles Opera, Cyclavia, Los Angeles Central Library, Ulture Collide Festival, I Am Vegetable, Gold Diggers & Snake Handlers, BAM Fest 2011, Cinefamily, Revenge of the LA Opera Costume Shop, Fritz Lang, Los Angeles Weekend Agenda, Los Angeles News

This weekend we’ve got indie music on the Eastside, craft beer on the Westside and the eighties era update of a 1927 film classic in between. Whethe...

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25 Foreign Films Even Subtitle Haters Should See

John Farr | Posted 11.25.2011

Read More: Yasujiro Ozu, Francois Truffaut, Abbas Kiarostami, Academy Awards, Arthouse, The Lives of Others, Gael Garcia Bernal, Leo Tolstoy, Best Movies by Farr, War and Peace, Akira Kurosawa, Alfonso Cuaron, Marcello Mastroianni, Florian Henckel Con Donnersmarck, Jean Renoir, Wong Kar Wai, Claudia Cardinale, Federico Fellini, Foreign Films, Louis Malle, Pedro Almodovar, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Tati, Fritz Lang, Subtitles, Zhang Yimou, Satyajit Ray, Ulrich Muhe, Werner Herzog, Anna Magnani, Walter Salles, Best Movies on DVD, Jean Gabin, Best Movies, Vittorio De Sica, Roberto Rossellini, Peter Lorre, Klaus Kinski, Entertainment News

Reading subtitles is a lot like riding a bicycle. Practice not only makes perfect, soon enough it's second nature so you don't even notice you're doing it. This particularly holds true when you're watching something great.

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PHOTOS: Architecture Of The Future?

Adel Zakout | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Metropolis, Art Meets Science, Urban Planning, Futurism, Paper Architecture, Design, Visionary Architecture, Architecture, Film, Utopia, Superstudio, Archigram, Slidepollajax, Future Cities, Fritz Lang, Arts News

The 1926 sci-fi masterpiece Metropolis by Fritz Lang opens with a stunning sequence of machinery in motion, followed by an anonymous workers' crowd de...

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Am I Dreaming, or Is Christopher Nolan's Inception Overrated?

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ellen Page, Guy Pearce, Metropolis, Science Fiction Movies, Christopher Nolan, Michael Caine, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Batman:the Dark Knight, Memento, Science Fiction, Marion Cotillard, Inception, Heath Ledger, Leonardo Dicaprio, Fritz Lang, Entertainment News

One interesting aspect of waiting to see certain Hollywood blockbusters on DVD is that you hear a lot in advance from the people who plunk down the bi...

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Wrap Party: Freund's The Mummy and Baba Ghanoush

Stefan Beck | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Boris Karloff, The Mummy, Dracula, Baba Ghanoush, Bela Lugosi, Horror, Dinner and a Horror Movie, Karl Freund, Tod Browning, Fritz Lang, Make-Up, Costumes, Hummus, Slidepollajax, Food News

I won't say baba ghanoush is more beguiling and haunting than The Mummy, but it's a close-run race.

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Classic "Under the Radar" Gangster Movies

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gloria Grahame, John Dillinger, Stanley Kubrick, Glenn Ford, Edward G. Robinson, Sterling Hayden, Martin Scorsese, Pulp Fiction, Best Movies by Farr, Marlene Dietrich, Alan Ladd, Jules Dassin, Dick Powell, Underworld, Bonnie and Clyde, Elia Kazan, Fritz Lang, Al Capone, Humphrey Bogart, American Film Institute, James Cagney, Lee Marvin, Veronica Lake, Best Movies on DVD, Mafia, Claire Trevor, Goodfellas Movie, Raymond Chandler, Thirteen/WNET, John Huston, Francis Ford Coppola, Criiterion Collection, Rififi, The Godfather, Angie Dickinson, Quentin Tarantino, Josef Von Sternberg, Richard Widmark, John Garfield, Gangster Movies, Entertainment News

Crime has not just been good to the criminals; it's been awfully good to Hollywood as well.

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G.W. Pabst: A Film Director for All Seasons

Thomas Gladysz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pandora?S Box, F.W. Murnau, Diary of a Lost Girl, G.W. Pabst, Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, Silent Film, Hollywood, Fritz Lang, Entertainment News

G.W. Pabst stands alongside Fritz Lang and F.W. Murnau as one of the three great directors working in Germany during the silent film era. Pabst, however, has not always gotten the attention paid to his more celebrated colleagues.

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15 Reasons to Attend the San Francisco Silent Film Festival

Thomas Gladysz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Louise Brooks, Silent Film Festival, San Francisco, Castro, Hollywood, Movie News, Kevin Brownlow, Fritz Lang, Entertainment News

For the last 15 years, a small group of Bay Area film enthusiasts have screened, promoted, and advocated for a defunct art form for which they are especially passionate.

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Cinefantastique Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction Podcast V1:N11: Langarama! -- The Woman in the Moon and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Violence, Action-Adventure, Justice, Murder, Horror, Emotion, Dr. Mabuse, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, Crime, War, Drama, Controversy, Death, German Expressionism, Woman in the Moon, Acting Legend, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Germany, Explosions, Ghosts, Art, Film Classics, Fritz Lang, Love, Cinefantastique, Cinefantastique Podcast, Cfq, Entertainment News

In anticipation of the release of the almost-fully-restored silent science-fiction classic, Metropolis, the Cinefantastique Horror, Fantasy & Science ...

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Remembering H.A.V. Bulleid, Author and Pioneering Film Historian

Thomas Gladysz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: H.a.V. Bulleid, Books, Metropolis, Famous Library Films, Silent Film, Movies, Fritz Lang, Kevin Brownlow, Film History, Books News

Famous Library Films offers contemporary readers an uncommon perspective: one can read about silent film through the eyes of someone who came of age during the silent era.

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Film Noir, at Its Noirest

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

There are plenty of films out there that make us hopeful about life and living. Film noir is a guilty pleasure where we witness the denizens of society's bottom rungs stamping on each other's feet for a higher, safer position.

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Cinefantastique Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction Podcast V1:N14: Metropolis

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lost Classic, Violence, Action-Adventure, Film, Justice, Repression, Emotion, Activism, Metropolis, Drama, Film Restoration, Movies, Social Drama, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Explosions, Art, Love, Fritz Lang, Cinefantastique, Cinefantastique Podcast, Cfq, Entertainment News

In Volume 1, Episode 14 of the Cinefantastique Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction Podcast, Dan Persons, Lawrence French, and Steve Biodrowski visit the...

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Kitsch With Quality: The Best '50s Sci-Fi Movies

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Georges Melies, Patricia Neal, Robert Wise, Reel 13, Steven Spielberg, Nuclear Age, George Lucas, Best Movies on DVD, Best Movies by Farr, Leslie Nielsen, Science Fiction, Thirteen/WNET, Gene Roddenberry, Howard Hawks, Fritz Lang, Entertainment News

Science fiction movies are like that food you don't eat much but sometimes find yourself in the mood for. Dated as some of these titles are, they're still great fun for those partial to the genre, or game to get acquainted with it.

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Where Is Lee Marvin When We Really Need Him?

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

I look at the new action movies coming out, and I have to wonder: Where's our new Lee Marvin? The manly man, the bad guy turned good guy, the guy who's so ugly he's almost beautiful, the guy who takes no prisoners?

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Movie Review: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marshall Fine Movie Review, Michael Douglas, Fritz Lang, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Movie Review, Entertainment News

This film is so overheated -- even outlandish -- at times that you can't help but laugh at its histrionics.

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