The Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo's Film Review YouTube channel has a lot of videos of film reviews from the livestream of their
BBC radio show and podcast, going back about five years. They are sorted by
genre, film rating, geographic origin and one special category,
Classic Kermodean Rants, which includes his reviews of
Transformers: Dark of the Moon,
Sex and the City 2, in which he ends up sing-shouting The Internationale, and
Angels and Demons, which woke a
man from a coma (mp3, story starts at 5:10, and it is followed up
here, beginning at 5:30).
posted by Kattullus
on Nov 10, 2012 -
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The Burton Holmes Archive has information about Burton Holmes, the travel writer who became the first person to make filmic travelogues. More importantly, they also have a lot of
film clips by Holmes and his associate,
André de la Varre, who was also a great travelogue maker himself. Watching these clips is not quite time travel, but it is as close as we can get. Take a look at
Reykjavík, Iceland, in 1926,
Lake Michigan in 20s,
Cairo in 1932 and
the 1955 Rio de Janeiro carnival. The later films have sound and narration, but I prefer the silent ones.
[Burton Holmes previously, André de la Varre previously, and the Travel Film Archive, which runs Burton Holmes site, previously]
posted by Kattullus
on Oct 26, 2011 -
5 comments
There are lots of great films in the public domain and many of them are online.
OpenFlix has 600, including a
bunch of Chaplin,
sci-fi and
horror B-movies,
film noir and HD versions of
The Kid, M and Night of the Living Dead.
Drelb has 400, including Buster Keaton's
The General and
Steamboat Bill Jr., episodes of
Bonanza and
Dragnet and
Three Stooges shorts.
Crazeclassics has over a 100, including
The Third Man, Roger Corman's
The Little Shop of Horrors,
Bringing Up Baby and
To Kill a Mockingbird.
Ampopfilms has 80, including
His Girl Friday,
Reefer Madness,
Destination Moon and the 1954 animated version of
Animal Farm.
Gravitas Ventures has 35, notably
Vampyr,
Death Rides a Horse and
Borderline.
posted by Kattullus
on Dec 23, 2010 -
19 comments
Journeyman Pictures has uploaded nearly 4000 videos to YouTube. Many of these are trailers for the documentaries they sell, but they have also posted hundreds of full-length videos. Most are for short documentarie, but there are a lot of features too. It's somewhat daunting to explore, but the
playlists are a good place to start, and so are the shows:
Features,
Shorts,
News and
Savouring Europe, a European travelogue series. Here's a few interesting ones:
Gastronauts, about French culinary students working to make astronaut food more palatable,
Demon Drummers, about student Kodo drummers,
India's Free Lunch, about the effects of free school lunches on Indian society,
The Twitter Revolution, about YouTube and Twitter's role in the 2009 Iranian uprising,
Europe's Black Hole, about Transnistria, the breakaway region of Moldova,
Small Town Boy, about a gay male carnival queen in a small town in England,
The Vertigo of Lists, Umberto Eco talks about the ubiquity of lists in modern culture and
Monsters from the Id, about scientists in the science fiction films of the Fifties.
posted by Kattullus
on Aug 24, 2010 -
10 comments
Colour on the Thames is a 7 minute film shot in 1935 using
Gasparcolor, one of the many early forms of tinting black and white film. Beside
Colour on the Thames, which provides a wonderful view of 1930's England, the only film made in Gasparcolor I could find online was
Colour Flight by New Zealand artist Len Lye, an abstract cartoon set to instrumental 1930's pop music.
The story of Gasparcolor is in itself interesting, for instance touching on Nazis, Hungary between the wars and early color animation.
posted by Kattullus
on Jan 27, 2009 -
12 comments
Rare Kishore Kumar Songs is a website dedicated to the music of legendary Bollywood
playback singer and comic actor
Kishore Kumar. There are hundreds of songs, many with other Bollywood legends, such as Asha Bhosle and Lata Mangeshkar. There are also songs by Kishore's son Amit. All songs and videos are in Real Player format and in low quality.
posted by Kattullus
on Jun 16, 2008 -
9 comments
