Ray Harryhausen is one of the key names in special effects history. Inspired by the creature effects of the original King Kong, Harryhausen developed a process for inserting stop-motion animated ...

Ray Harryhausen is one of the key names in special effects history. Inspired by the creature effects of the original King ...

Eye of Silent Film Classics Silent films from the turn of the 20th century may seem like technological dinosaurs that got wiped out by today’s CGI overkill and off-the-chart volume levels, but in the ...

Martin Scorsese is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, and it’s a testament to his unmatched legacy that even though ...

In this short essay, Walter Metz uses Walter Benjamin’s essay, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction as a ...

Fifty years into his career, Martin Scorsese is still searching, still creating, and still discovering what cinema, and life, ...

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Cinephiles and music lovers should have plenty to enjoy when the French concert-film “Right in the Eye” comes to the Rio Theatre to celebrate the groundbreaking cinematography of ...

In this short essay, Walter Metz analyzes the connections between Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street and Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained.

French filmmaker Georges Méliès may not be a household name for those not schooled in film history, but his work is familiar ...