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For a long time we have used the video store as one of our main ways to access movies. The next generation it seems will be getting their movies from movie downloads, avoiding any trips to the store. Below is a sample of some of the movies you can find using movie download sites.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Old photographs – their particular grain, their uncanny illumination of both a living moment and the death of time – can possess extraordinary traction. I'm studying a photograph in a new book, Lost London, by Philip Davies, and it's hard to look away.
The Shelf (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A couple of 5-star worthy TCM news items to bring across the bow of the Shelf, and more from around the Shelf neighborhood: You may already know that Turner Classic Movies is hosting their first annual TCM Classic Film Festival April of 2010 in Hollywood, CA. They will be presenting more than 50 classic films, and hosted by Robert Osborne- with many talks and special guests such as Leonard Maltin,...
The Oxford Times | Blogs (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Reviews of Phantom; The Grand Duke's Finances; Sunrise; Seventh Heaven; Street Angel; Lucky Star; Liliom; and The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
News: Through their twitter feed the Masters of Cinema series have announced the February DVD and Blu-ray Disc release of Fritz Lang's M in February 2010. Further details are TBC but we do have the artwork…
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
ATLANTA, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- When Turner Classic Movies (TCM) launches the first-ever TCM Classic Film Festival in April 2010 in Hollywood, the spectacular events will include the world premiere of a newly restored edition of George Cukor's music-filled 1954 drama A Star is Born; the North American premiere of a restored version of Fritz Lang's 1927 science-fiction silent masterpiece Metropolis;...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Film News: 'Star,' 'Metropolis' to be featured at festival -- A restored version of George Cukor's "A Star is Born" and a long-lost print of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" are among the showcase screenings set for Turner Classic Movies' inaugural Classic Film Festival, to be held April 22-25 in Hollywood.
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Bowerbirds play a tiny desk concert at NPR Music. The Guardian profiles comics legend Osamu Tezuka and his creation, Astro Boy. Tezuka's comics look outward to the world, too: his influences are decisively international. Individual frames, as McCarthy points out,...
bloggy (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
All decent people should run away from home. -- Fritz Lang, 1975 I heard this quote in a fascinating interview...
Open Culture (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Two weeks ago, we presented a list of 35 sites where you can watch free movies online. Now, we’ve taken the next step and added 100 high-quality films to our list. Some films are contemporary, but many are classics created by legendary directors, actors & actresses. And they’re frequently made available by the great Internet [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
With two great bodies of work, the first in the German silent era, the other in Hollywood talkies, Lang (1890-1976) bestrides the history of cinema, arguably the most original, innovative and influential figure in film history. He virtually invented several movie genres, including the paranoid conspiracy thriller, and running through his oeuvre over three decades is the mysterious figure of the megalomaniac...
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
L'Atalante (1934) .. Jean Vigo The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) .. Victor Erice Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) .. Robert Bresson Tokyo Story (1953) .. Yasujiro Ozu Man with a Movie Camera (1929) .. Dziga Vertov La Règle du Jeu (1939) .. Jean Renoir Playtime (1967) .. Jacques Tati L'Avventura (1960) .. Michelangelo Antonioni Sunrise (1927) .. F.W. Murnau The Conformist (1970) .. Bernardo Bertolucci...
Film Forno (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Columbia Pictures just released a film noir box set of 5 dvds, all of them classics. There’s Edward Dymytrk’s The Sniper an early serial killer story set in San Francisco and starring Monster On The Campus leading man Arthur Franz. Martin Scorsese adds a commentary. Fritz Lang’s The Big Heat starring Glenn Ford, Lee Marvin and [...]
Open Culture (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Two weeks ago, I posted a collection of 20 sites where you can watch free movies online. Thanks to your help, the page now features 30 Places to Watch Free Movies Online, and I hope to keep it growing. Below, I have featured five of the new additions, which includes many important classics. Please feel [...]
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