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phillip-stewart's picture
Oct.28.2009
A TREASURE TROVE RE-DISCOVERED! Before there was television there was the newsreel. People from all over the country would visit their local movie palace to watch the news twice every week along with the feature film. The major American newsreel companies of the time covered world events, politics...
phillip-stewart's picture
Oct.28.2009
SOME OF HISTORY'S BEST KEPT SECRETS ARE BURIED DEEP WITHIN...AMERICA'S FILM VAULT. AMERICA'S FILM VAULT: A Reference Guide to the Motion Pictures Held by the U.S. National Archives is the comprehensive new book by award-winning author and film-sleuth Phillip W. Stewart.  This essential reference...
michael-berry's picture
Jul.19.2009
“I always compare filmmaking to cooking. Shooting is like buying the groceries. You buy all kinds of ingredients and the better ingredients you get, the better chance you have of making the movie you want.”—Ang Lee, from Speaking in Images Speaking in Images offers an engaging and rare collection...
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Jan.31.2008
[A] novel for the new millennium. Deft and funny and wise, it examines authorship, narration, technology, love, and memory, and asks most playfully what it means to tell a story. Always inventing and bravely trying out new strategies, she puts most writers and their sorry pretenses of...