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In 1985, after seventeen New York publishers had rejected City of Glass, the lead novella in The New York Trilogy, it was published by Sun and Moon Press in San Francisco. The other two novellas, Ghosts and The Locked Room, came out the next year. Paul Auster was thirty-eight. Al...
In 'Raymond Griffith: The Silk Hat Comedian', the two clever silent films 'Paths to Paradise' and 'You'd Be Surprised', make a working-class hero out of a toff in a top hat.
Ben Model has dedicated himself to creating music scores to bring silent films back to glorious life. He discusses the process to creating these scores and his passion to save these films and share them with new audiences.
During the 1920s, Raymond Griffith was one of the most popular comic actors in movies. Today, he is mostly forgotten since most of his films are lost – but two films that survived are being presented for the first time on DVD and Blu-ray.
All Quiet on the Western Front, American war film, released in 1930 and set during World War I, that is regarded as one of the most effective antiwar movies ever made. It won great praise in the United States but was banned in several other countries, including Germany, because of its pacifist message. The movie, which was based on a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, earned the Academy Award for best picture (then called most outstanding production). The movie begins in a small German town in 1914. As a military parade takes place outside a school, a group of students,