This month, Cinelinx is taking you on a trip back through time. Join us as we examine how movies have changed over the last 100 years. To begin, we are going all the way back to 1917.
1917 was a year of tension and conflict. Europe was war-torn, having been engaged in World War I for 3 years with no hope for peace on the horizon. Several acts by Germany including resuming submarine warfare and the Zimmerman Telegram would cause the United States to reluctantly enter the war and bolster the Allied forces. On the homefront, numerous scientific advances around the turn of the century were proliferating their way through society to modernize cities and improve industrial efficiencies. However, the transition to having more machines and electricity in the workplace was not a smooth one. Industrial accidents were common, working conditions were terrifying, and child labor was the norm. Thus, free time was not...
1917 was a year of tension and conflict. Europe was war-torn, having been engaged in World War I for 3 years with no hope for peace on the horizon. Several acts by Germany including resuming submarine warfare and the Zimmerman Telegram would cause the United States to reluctantly enter the war and bolster the Allied forces. On the homefront, numerous scientific advances around the turn of the century were proliferating their way through society to modernize cities and improve industrial efficiencies. However, the transition to having more machines and electricity in the workplace was not a smooth one. Industrial accidents were common, working conditions were terrifying, and child labor was the norm. Thus, free time was not...
- 1/4/2017
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (G.S. Perno)
- Cinelinx
Above: UK poster for Eno (Alphons Sinniger, UK, 1973). Designer: Blue Egg.
The most popular poster I’ve posted on my Movie Poster of the Day Tumblr in the past quarter—with over 1,000 likes and reblogs—has been this rarity that popped up at Posteritati this Spring. A British Double Crown (10" shorter than a one sheet) for a 24 minute documentary about the experimental music genius Brian Eno, made in 1973 at the start of his post-Roxy solo career, the poster’s popularity is no doubt due as much to the reverence Eno is held in as to its graphic design. But it is still a terrific poster, making simple yet brilliant use of two color printing and showcasing a multitude of Enos in all his glam rock glory. The text in the corner credits Blue Egg Printing and Design Ltd. and if anyone knows anything more about that company I’d love to hear about it.
The most popular poster I’ve posted on my Movie Poster of the Day Tumblr in the past quarter—with over 1,000 likes and reblogs—has been this rarity that popped up at Posteritati this Spring. A British Double Crown (10" shorter than a one sheet) for a 24 minute documentary about the experimental music genius Brian Eno, made in 1973 at the start of his post-Roxy solo career, the poster’s popularity is no doubt due as much to the reverence Eno is held in as to its graphic design. But it is still a terrific poster, making simple yet brilliant use of two color printing and showcasing a multitude of Enos in all his glam rock glory. The text in the corner credits Blue Egg Printing and Design Ltd. and if anyone knows anything more about that company I’d love to hear about it.
- 7/8/2014
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
Anurag Basu has responded to criticism that scenes from Barfi! have been copied. The film features scenes which closely resemble sequences from Singin' in the Rain, Project A, Charlie Chaplin in The Adventurer, Buster Keaton's Cops and The Notebook, while Pritam's music appears to be influenced by Amelie. In an interview on TV show Headlines Today, Ndtv Movies reports that Basu defended his film by saying: "If I would have changed the shot, twisted things around and made it my own it would have been stealing.
"I did shot-to-shot because they are famous iconic shots and scenes from famous masterpieces, every filmmaker knows them." The director described the film as a homage to Chaplin and drew parallels with last year's 'Best Film' Oscar winner The Artist, (more)...
"I did shot-to-shot because they are famous iconic shots and scenes from famous masterpieces, every filmmaker knows them." The director described the film as a homage to Chaplin and drew parallels with last year's 'Best Film' Oscar winner The Artist, (more)...
- 9/28/2012
- by By Priya Joshi
- Digital Spy
Josef von Sternberg, Charles Chaplin, John Ford: Shasta County Silent Film Festival Friday, October 21 6:00 p.m. Angora Love (1929, Laurel & Hardy). Stanley and Oliver are adopted by a runaway goat, whose noise and aroma in turn get the goat of their suspicious landlord. Attempts to bathe the smelly animal result in a waterlogged free-for-all. Pass the Gravy (1928, Max Davidson). Max Davidson plays a widower father who enjoys raising prize flowers. His neighbor, another widower father, raises prize poultry. The two families spat because the chickens are eating Max's flower seeds. In a Romeo and Juliet-like twist, the men's children decide to marry each other, and the fathers decide to hold a celebratory dinner to show no hard feelings. However, the roast chicken on the table looks very suspicious. It's a Gift (1923, Snub Pollard) Along with a Felix the Cat. A group of oil magnates are trying to think of new ways to attract business.
- 10/7/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
How switched on are you when it comes to cinema's leading lights and darkest shades?
Back in 2002 Ikea launched the 60-second ad Lamp as part of its Unböring campaign. Directed by Spike Jonze, Lamp opens with a little red lamp sitting by the sofa. A melancholy piano piece hangs in the air. A woman unplugs the lamp, hoists it over her shoulder, and dumps it on the pavement in the pouring rain. Time passes, and shots of the lonely lamp are cut with others taken from its perspective, peering through the window at its former owner cosying up beside a brand new Ikea model. Then, from nowhere, a man walks into shot and says, "Many of you feel bad for this lamp. That is because you crazy. It has no feelings, and the new one is much better."
Maybe we crazy. Brick loves lamp, after all, and he killed a guy with a trident.
Back in 2002 Ikea launched the 60-second ad Lamp as part of its Unböring campaign. Directed by Spike Jonze, Lamp opens with a little red lamp sitting by the sofa. A melancholy piano piece hangs in the air. A woman unplugs the lamp, hoists it over her shoulder, and dumps it on the pavement in the pouring rain. Time passes, and shots of the lonely lamp are cut with others taken from its perspective, peering through the window at its former owner cosying up beside a brand new Ikea model. Then, from nowhere, a man walks into shot and says, "Many of you feel bad for this lamp. That is because you crazy. It has no feelings, and the new one is much better."
Maybe we crazy. Brick loves lamp, after all, and he killed a guy with a trident.
- 6/1/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
For me, comedy begins with Charlie Chaplin. I know there were screen comedies before he came along, and I appreciate the work of everyone from Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew to Max Linder. But none of them created a persona as unique or indelible as the Little Tramp, and no one could match his worldwide impact. The miracle of the “golden dozen” two-reelers he made for Mutual Film Corporation in 1916-17, just a few years after his motion picture debut, remains unmatched almost a century later: twelve perfectly-formed comedies (The Immigrant, Easy Street, The Adventurer, The Cure, et al), filmed…...
- 12/13/2010
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
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