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In September of 1935 Paramount Pictures released a nine-minute movie remarkable in several ways. Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life is one of the earliest cinematic explorations of African-American culture for a mass audience.

Back during the 1920s, Claude Friese-Greene, an early British pioneer of film, shot The Open Road, a series of ten-minute travelogues of Britain, which.

A little over a year ago, we brought you a roundup of great Science Fiction & Fantasy classics available on the web.

Streaming de la bande originale du prochain film de Sofia Coppola, The Bling Ring avec notamment Phoenix, Frank Ocean, M.I.A., Kanye West (La B.O du film The Bling Ring de Sofia Coppola avec Kanye West, Phoenix, Frank Ocean...

Merkel reveals politically explosive favorite film Deutsche Welle But the explosive power of the work was evident even before the premiere of the film from screenwriter Ulrich Plenzdorf and director Heiner Carow in Berlin's Kosmos Kino on March 29,...

Spain's Recession Calls for Creative Film Financing
Variety
“Spain has directors who are valued internationally, who can make films in English produced out of Spain but financed from all over the world,” adds Madrid-based Morena Films' Juan Gordon.

Here's a little nugget for you. The great inventor Thomas Edison visited the home of Mark Twain in 1909, and captured footage of 'the father of American literature' (says Faulkner) walking around his estate and playing cards with his daughters,...

The short film “The Magic Box” tells the tale of a magic box that a grandfather passes down to his grandson. The film was written and directed by magician R. Paul Wilson. via The Awesomer. email ...

The Guardian
Jewellery heist hits Cannes film festival
The Guardian
A million dollars' worth of jewellery to be worn by celebrities at the Cannes film festival has been stolen, according to French police.

William Faulkner, 1949: Nobel said in his will, 'the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction.' Many of the greatest writers of the past 112 years have received the Nobel Prize in...

Massive Greenland glacier collapses as video rolls
NBCNews.com (blog)
... in response to climate.

Polish Film Institute Opens Industry To New Filmmakers
Variety
Most Poles agree that their national cinema has been rejuvenated and the credit should go, in part, to the Polish Film Institute.

The Guardian
Cannes film festival 2013 diary: day two
The Guardian
Up the Croisette come the Troma film crew – a parade of zombies and street punks, posing for tourists and enraging the traffic.

The painter describes how his early painting, and experiences in Philadelphia, translated over time into his uniquely surreal style of filmmaking.

In our enlightened times, film directing has become a reasonably open profession, admitting men, women, and — given the plummeting cost of production equipment — children alike.