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Flickchart Film School: 1926
27, Mar 2013
by Ross Bonaime
1926, seemingly by coincidence, became a gigantic year of firsts – not only for some of the biggest filmmakers of all time, but also for the technology and growth of film.
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- Tags: 1926, 3 Bad Men, Alfred Hitchcock, Barbara Stanwyck, Battling Butler, Blue Eagle, Brown of Harvard, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chan, Clara Bow, Don Juan, Douglas Fairbanks, F.W. Murnau, Faust: A German Folk Legend, Flesh and the Devil, Greta Garbo, Jean Renoir, John Ford, John Wayne, Moana, Nana, Nanook of the North, Robert J. Flaherty, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, The Black Pirate, The General, The House Without a Key, The Lodger, The Pleasure Garden, The Temptress, Torrent, Warner Oland
by Ryan Stuckey
Truly one of the more unloved inclusions of Flickchart are short films. So unloved, that many people refuse to include them on their lists. It’s not too hard to see why, as they often aren’t that extraordinary and can be much harder to remember in the long-term. With significantly less content, they are often much tougher to rank against features, and many people will debate on whether they should actually be considered movies or not. Despite having my own problems with trying to rank them properly, I include them in my list, mostly for vain reasons. Read the rest of this entry »
Reel Rumbles #37: “WALL·E” vs. “Up”
14, Jun 2011
by Nigel Druitt
Almost everybody has their favorite film from Pixar Animation Studios. And it’s not surprising; no other studio has enjoyed Pixar’s mind-boggling brand of success. Of eleven feature films, every single one has been a hit. The master storytellers at Pixar have an uncanny knack for appealing to every demographic, and all of their films are true visual marvels. While at least half of their movies could be considered genuine masterpieces, all of them are at least above average (even Cars, which many might consider their most derivative and predictable work).
For me, the pick of the Pixar crop is Finding Nemo, the first movie I think of when I think of beautiful animation (an art form I’ve always loved, even in its current CGI phase), and a story that resonates for me personally, as a father. But there are two other Pixar masterpieces that vie for second place on my personal chart of the Best Pixar Animation Studios Films, and they are two of the studio’s most daring. Step into the Reel Rumbles ring for a journey into gorgeous visuals, thrilling adventure and powerful emotion as we pit WALL·E vs. Up.
Flickchart Film School: 1924
28, Apr 2011by Ross Bonaime
In 1924, two of cinema’s most famous film studios were created. Three companies, Marcus Loew’s Metro Pictures Corporation, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Picutres Company combined to form MGM. The first film under the MGM banner was Lon Chaney’s He Who Gets Slapped, which would also be the first film to begin with the infamous lion roar that would be the logo for MGM for decades after. In the same year, brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and Joseph Brandt would change their C.B.C. Film Sales Company into the Columbia Film Corporation.
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- Tags: 1924, 1925, Aelita: Queen of Mars, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Columbia, Douglas Fairbanks, Eisenstein, Erich von Stroheim, Ethel Barrymore, F.W. Murnau, Greed, He Who Gets Slapped, Karl Freund, Lita Grey, Lon Chaney, MGM, Sherlock Jr, Strike, The Gold Rush, The Last Laugh, The Navigator, The Thief of Baghdad, Thomas Ince, Time Magazine, Ward Crane, William Randolph Hearst
Flickchart Film School: 1923
22, Mar 2011by Ross Bonaime
In 1923, one of Hollywood’s most famous landmarks was created. The HOLLYWOOD sign, which originally said HOLLYWOODLAND, was built for only $21,000 over the Hollywood Hills. The famous sign was originally created to help raise home sales in Beachwood Canyon.
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- Tags: A Woman of Paris, Buster Keaton, Cecil B. Demille, Charlie Chaplin, Charlton Heston, Dave and Max Fleischer, Fred C. Newmeyer, Harold Lloyd, Lee de Forest, Lon Chaney, Mildred Davis, Our Hospitality, Safety Last!, Sam Taylor, Sherlock Jr, The Covered Wagon, The Einstein Theory of Relativity, The Gold Diggers, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Pilgrim, The Ten Commandments, Warner Bros.