Do sleeping dogs lie forever? The question can be asked about Peter Landesman’s biopic of Mark Felt, the FBI agent who leaked drop after drop of damning information regarding the Watergate burglary to Bod Woodward and Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post, until they turned into a flood that drowned Nixon and acolytes in 1974. If one relies on the story as it is told here, the dogs will indeed ... more >
Archives for November 2017
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NEW RELEASE: Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
The story behind the story
Liam Neeson, Diane Lane and Marton Csokas
Directed by Peter Landesman
Documentary “Off Country” Lets Survivors and Opponents of Nuclear Testing Do the Talking
Documentary film as digital archive
Taylor Dunne and Eric Stewart’s forthcoming documentary “Off country” examines the devastating, still-lingering effects of atomic bomb testing on the communities around the White Sands missile range in New Mexico, the Nevada Test Site and the Rocky Flats Plant in Colorado, where plutonium triggers were manufactured until its 1992 shutdown (the latter facility was studied in the galling 1982 ... more >
NILES RETROSPECTIVE: Mabel Normand gets day in the California sun
Retrospective will take place November 11-12
Normand helped Chaplin early on in his career
Over the years I’ve researched and written extensively ("Silent film star deserved to be heard," ScreenComment, 2012) on the underrated work of silent movie actress Mabel Normand, Hollywood’s first film comedienne and female director. I’m now happy to report that she is finally being recognized for her many accomplishments. During November 11-12 the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum, located in ... more >