In the beginning…there was Fort Lee, New Jersey. Situated on the top of the Palisades cliffs, it was a natural fortress during the Revolutionary War, and where, in the start of the 1900s, the early cinema revolution rooted and shot up in and all around the New York/New Jersey landscape. One of the first cinema […]
Archive | April, 2012
Dorothy Gibson: a Reel Jersey Girl
04/15/2012
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Dorothy Gibson was a 22 year old silent film star, having found a place in a lifeboat dressed in a sweater and coat over an evening gown on the night of April 14, 1912, the night Titanic sank. Lifeboat 7 was launched at 12:45 a.m. and remained near the sinking ship so it could be […]
Lessons Learned in Monsieur Lazhar
04/12/2012
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Quiet control in storytelling, Philippe Falardeau chose a situation in the first continuous scene when a beloved teacher is discovered having hanged herself in the classroom. Not wanting the students’ backgrounds to become an issue in a story that had enough issues to contend with, his choice of images included a private school, the characters […]
Woodstock Film Festival 2016
04/17/2012
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