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With The New Yorker 's Anthony Lane and this magazine's David Edelstein already bucking critical status quo with mixed-negative assessments of Lee Daniels' Oscar-contending, Oprah-endorsed Precious , famed New York Press contrarian Armond White must've known he had his work cut out for him.

Dir. D.W. Griffith . Griffith's last normally scaled project before he embarked on his epic The Birth of a Nation , this impressive thriller is especially notable for its central portion, a dream sequence extraordinary for the period that makes use of dramatic lighting effects and compositions derived from 19th century paintings.

Even for film students who are constantly exposed to movies, silent films can be daunting.

The Pike County Historical Society in Milford will offer free showings of some of the films in their archives on Saturday, Oct.17 beginning at 1 p.m. An episode of the Twilight Zone which originally aired in March of 1962 titled a oeTo Serve Mana was derived from a short story written by one- time Milford resident Damon Knight.

The Pike County Historical Society paid tribute to some of the county's most famous people Oct.

PROPOSED RADIO NEWS LEDE: THE ELECTION OF A BLACK MAN TO THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES HAD SOME OBSERVERS SPEAKING OF A POST RACIAL SOCIETY, BUT OTHERS MORE CRITICALLY REMARKED THAT RACISM CANNOT BE ELIMINATED BY FAILING TO ADDRESS IT.

A scene from the new epic film The Founding of a Republic. In 1915, D.W. Griffith created The Birth of a Nation upon the backdrop of the American Civil War and changed the Hollywood film industry forever.

World Cinema is the latest buzz in town, a term which guarantees instant awe when dropped in conversations.

Besides Michael Jackson, other famous Hoosiers are buried at Forest Lawn Glendale Cemetery in California.

Beefy Star was the First Celluloid "Lord of the Jungle" Elmo Lincoln, the original "Tarzan" of the movies, was born Otto Elmo Linkenhelt in Rochester, Indiana on February 6, 1889, into a middle-class family of seven.

So dear readers, I am back from vacation. Funny, I returned to find out that just because I don't enjoy the sappy, crappy flick 'Yankee Doodle Dandy ' I am a bigot.

A cemetery that is the burial place for many celebrities was slowly returning to normal Tuesday after its latest service - a private memorial for Michael Jackson.

"Yankee Doodle Dandy." American movies began lighting screen fireworks even in silent days.

PRESIDENT Woodrow Wilson famously described D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation" as "history written in lightning." Others have had less flattering things to say about this racist classic, even if it did virtually invent the modern feature film.

DJ Spooky. Rebirth of a Nation, 2008. NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation, a weeklong run of composer, multimedia artist, and writer Paul D. Miller's film Rebirth of a Nation , a deconstruction and remix of D.W. Griffith's highly controversial but landmark The Birth of a Nation , from June 22 through 28, ...

Asians have been portrayed just as unfairly as blacks by filmmakers, and also right from the inception of the movie industry.

Home >> Articles >> Film >> Films Reviews >> DVD Review: Nickelodeon & The Last Picture Show Wednesday, April 22,2009 By Armond White Way before the Andersons , Peter Bogdanovich exemplified the film nerd-artiste and this double-disc DVD commemorates the golden moment.

While they may now call Los Angeles or Nashville home, several celebrities got their start right in our backyard.

Excerpted from Michael Smith's "I See Movies for Free" blog. Read it. Turner Classic Movies has named the 15 most influential films in cinema history, in celebration of the 15th anniversary of the great-old-movies network .

It's a good list. As much as I think all such lists are debatable rankings of apples and oranges, that didn't prevent me from selecting my own ten best films of the century at the turn of the millenium.