What happened to the classical heritage in our films?
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There was a time when Hindi cinema repeatedly returned to the classical music and dance heritage for sustenance.
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Cold, dark shadows cast by stone buildings that have stood for hundreds of years are everywhere in this corner of the world where history is measured in centuries, not decades. From out of these shadows have come legendary sagas of despair and tragedy, one of which inspired William Shakespeare.
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A quiz on movie titles inspired from old songs.
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Blade Runner. 2001: A Space Odyssey. Star Wars Those were the days. Whatever happened to intellectually challenging science-fiction flicks? By Jason Silverman.
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What used to matter isn't so critical anymore.
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When everything gets an API then everything you can imagine will be possible if you can write a script.  And sometimes, to give you an idea, all that has to happen is that a wall come down. The latest, most intriguing such wall was the paywall at the NY Times. Now all of a sudden we find the wealth of information published by the NY Times over many decades is available without tariff. More important, we can point into the archive. We've gotten so accustomed to the wall, that you actually have to think when it may be possible to go in there, as if it left behind a wall in our minds, even after the wall on the web is gone. For example, the first episode of Ken Burns's The War, an epic series about World War II from the American perspective, cited several NY Times articles. If you looked carefully you could see the dates, and the actual headlines, and then if you have a browser handy, as I do (I have an iPhone) you can actually read the article while the narrative continues. Today this is mostly a gimick, but I suspect as we get used to having history so available (like having a library microfilm machine, which I used to spend whole days playing with when I was a kid) it will change our sense of information, perhaps as much as anything else that's ever been on the web. Take movie reviews for example. What a thrill to be able to read a review of a movie that I love that came out in 1932! The reviewers back then were more forgiving, less sarcasting, more enthusiastic. Consider their review of the Hollywood Revue of 1929, a favorite of mine that I've only seen once (I'd pay for a DVD, if it were available). They loved audible movies (that's what they called them) as if the term "talkie" was as elusive as "podcast" was in the summer of 2004. Again, we've just scratched the surface. Wouldn't you like to have NY Times movie reviews integrated with Netflix? Or have Yahoo's movie rating service available on the NY Times site. And I have to wonder whether they really have gone all the way. You can't see the reviews unless you're logged in. Can Google's robots, therefore, see the movie reviews? Unless the've made some special arrangements, it seems not.  It would be helpful to get a technical guide to the newly hatched NY Times on the Web, or (as in the old days of software) a reviewer's guide, so we get some ideas of what to look at. Clearly a lot of work went into opening up the Times archive. I'm going to be in NY the week of October 8 and will have some time toward the end of the week. If anyone at the Times would be willing to spend some time with me reviewing what's now open, that would be helpful. In any case, at least the Times today is somewhat more available to be integrated into the fabric of the web. That's some progress. How much, remains to be seen. Postscript: Kottke did a great job of skimming the surface of the newly opened Times when it first came online, just one week ago today.
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Blog: The question of whether upcoming documentary was helped or hurt by bootleg copies that cropped up online may soon be answered.
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âAn Affair to Remember,â reissued in a beautifully remastered two-disc 50th-anniversary edition, is one of the best and best-loved films of classical Hollywood.
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Director's cuts of  films, which generally are made available as premium DVDs,  typically are presented as the last word in a film's life  cycle. They're the archival editions, the longer, beefier cuts  that present the director's true artistic vision rather than  the shorter theatrical cuts.
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English composers were once mere imitators. Then came a renaissance.
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Positiva la detassazione della produzione cinematografica
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But the film does not have most of the answers.
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Is it a film made outside the Hollywood system, or is it a style?
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Arts & entertainment: Rock music had always played a crucial role in Sean O'Hagan's life. As his passion for the genre faded, could classical music fill the void?
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Seeing motion pictures exhibited in film projection theatres is a dying tradition which we will one day tell our grandchildren about in order to bore them.    The causes of this death are obvious to many consumers, but mystify movie studios and exhibitors alike.    What follows is an open letter to the proprietors of Cineplex Entertainment LP, carbon copied here to you, the K5 community, in order that you may share in my vitriol.
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Through the murk and gloom of âThe Abandoned,â a mystery emerges: Why didnât this go straight to DVD?
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This course explores the history, culture and society of Classical Athens, and points out many inconsistencies in the popular idea of what Classical Athens was.