The Media Funhouse just posted about the unbelievable classic film treasures that enjoy a short, but rich life on YouTube (kinda like the cicada in August). And the two collections he links to are filled with Western and Film Noir gems. I am featuring Ace in the Hole (1951) here because it is [...]
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Ace in the Hole
Published by July 11th, 2009 in YouTube, film, film noir, films and movies. 0 CommentsHigh School Hell Cats, and other assorted mashup learning resources from the Internet Archive
Published by April 7th, 2008 in film, film noir, films, fun, insructional technology and open education. 0 CommentsI find myself constantly going back to the Internet Archive, and constantly being blown away by what I find. Now, maybe I am biased towards video, and obsess over all things film history. I have been registering several people’s interest in mashups from various angles, Doug Symington was wondering about the curricular possibilities here and [...]
No Country for Old Men, or the end of cinema
Published by March 27th, 2008 in film, film noir, films and movies. 21 CommentsLet me ask you something. If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
This is the question I would ask of the Coen Brothers after watching this film. The rule in my mind was the reworking of a narrative logic in their films spanning over twenty years, in particular [...]
Stephen King’s “The Mist”
Published by October 16th, 2007 in YouTube, books, film, film noir and movies. 3 CommentsThrough the latest Fangoria on the stands I discovered that Stephen King’s short story/novella “The Mist” has been made into a film, and is currently in post-production and should be out in theaters November 21st, 2007.
The trailer is a bit underwhelming when I think about just how powerful this story was for me [...]
Who needs Netflix with the Internet Archive around?
Published by July 23rd, 2007 in film, film noir, films and movies. 5 CommentsOver the last month or so I have been scouring the Internet Archive for pubic domain films. Below are 31 of the 38 movies I bookmarked in del.icio.us that are currently available at Internet Archive del.icio.us seems to be balking the feed after 31 entries for some reason). To see all 38 go here. The list [...]
The Killers (1946): What’s the idea?
Published by July 12th, 2007 in YouTube, film, film noir, films and movies. 7 CommentsI posted a little while back about a few of my favorite noirs, and decided to re-visit one of the films from the list: The Killers (1946). I truly love this film, and on yet another go round I’m beginning to understand a bit more as to why. To start with, the movie does [...]
The Big Lebowski: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN
Published by June 15th, 2007 in film, film noir and movies. 6 CommentsWas the writing on the wall? I’m not a numerologist, nor do I necessarily believe in signs. But I noticed a few years back that there was a strange convergence of political, social, and tragic factors in the opening scene of the greatest of all films from the 1990s, The Big Lebowski (1998). [...]
Tales from the Teaching Crypt: American Film Genres syllabus from Summer 2000
Published by June 12th, 2007 in film, film noir, films and movies. 10 CommentsFrom another lifetime, here is class I taught at SUNY Old Westbury that was a total blast. A recent post on Film Noirs inspired me to start putting my old syllabi on bavawiki in order to begin archiving and making available some of the work I have done over the last ten years (has [...]
Living in a small city with little, if nothing, happening has some untold benefits. Especially when you have access to an eclectic film library at your workplace. So, in an attempt to start chronicling one of my passions, I offer up the following list of films I have seen over the past week:
Planet of [...]
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