It will come as a surprise to many film aficionados that the filmmakers included in “Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film, 1893-1941” include Frank Capra, Busby Berkeley, D.W. Griffith, ...

In the 1920s, a new kind of movie started showing in Paris theatres, and the audiences were… confused. These movies were a radical departure from the ones they had known until then. These new films ...

In 1928, directors Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, and Grigori Alexandrov began a collective statement with a declaration: “Our cherished dreams of a sound cinema are being realized.” It was a ...

WBEZ Film Contributor and director at Facets Chicago Milos Stehlik chats with documentary filmmaker and anthropologist J.P. Sniadecki. His new avant-garde film, El Mar La Mar, uses sight and sound ...

Jonas Mekas, the Lithuanian-born director, critic, patron and poet widely regarded as the godfather of modern American avant-garde film and as an indispensable documenter of his adopted New York City, ...

For all the impact that DVDs have had on expanding viewers' knowledge of films and filmmaking, few discs have had the potential to alter cinema history. This is what makes 19-hour homevid release of ...

After losing an anticipated $45,000 in federal funding, an institution of the Bay Area film scene is in financial trouble.

While early 20th-century Hollywood film posters peddled romance and glamour, Russia steered away from the easy marketing of celebrities, and focused instead on creative design. Spurred by the ...

San Francisco Cinematheque faces a $50,000 budget shortfall due to NEA grant cuts, potentially halting operations.