After being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through enemy lines. You know what’s funny? Every single synopsis that I’ve read for Buster Keaton’s 1926 film The General has put emphasis on the civil war aspect of the film. And, … Continue reading 18. The General (1926)
Recently, I showed my boyfriend the film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, a film often considered one of the first horror films from the 1920s. It’s filled with loads of German Expressionism and your girl loves German Expressionism. He really enjoyed the film (thank goodness), and we got to talking about remakes. We started discussing who we would cast in a remake of this film. … Continue reading A Recasting of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
If you look into movie musical history, you will notice one large thing. You will notice one large gap from, roughly, the mid 1980s until the early 2000s. You’ll see that Walt Disney animated films filled a gap that movie musicals were leaving. I suppose that you could qualify these films as “movie musicals”, but they weren’t movie musicals in the traditional sense. They were … Continue reading Movie Musical Monday: Chicago (2002)
