Archive • December 2012

National Film Registry Additions for 2012 Announced

posted December 19, 2012

The Library of Congress today named 25 motion pictures that have been selected for inclusion in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Among them is Sons of the Desert (1933), a riotous comedy that starred Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, along with comedian Charley Chase. Veteran director William A. Seiter for Hal Roach ...

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Wheeler Winston Dixon Tolls the Death of the Moguls

posted December 19, 2012

Wheeler Winston Dixon talks about how he went about researching his latest book, Death of the Moguls: The End of Classical Hollywood, which Rutgers University Press released in August 2012. Dixon is a prolific film historian based at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Among his many books are 21st Century Hollywood: Movies in the Era ...

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Saving Albania’s Film Legacy

posted December 5, 2012

A still from "Nentori i Dyte," from 1982, the first film restored by the Albanian Cinema Project and its friends.

Few filmgoers know much about Albanian cinema. That’s a safe bet. Most might be surprised to learn the country had one. After all, from 1944 until his death in 1985, the dictator Enver Hoxha imposed a reign of oppression. In his mix of delusion, paranoia, and calculation, he order Albanians to stave off a concocted military ...

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