Documentary and the evolution of movies
The documentary impulse was integral to the evolution of film and a key element was the application of the new technology to the 19th Century impulse to explore and “conquer” far-off exotic places and […]
Review: The Great White Silence (1924)
Director: Herbert G. Ponting
Cast: Robert Falcon Scott, Herbert G. Ponting, Henry R. Bowers, Edgar Evans, Lawrence E.G. Oates,
Robert Falcon Scott
Herbert G. Ponting
Henry R. Bowers
Edgar Evans
Lawrence E.G. Oates
Plot: Herbert Ponting travelled to Antarctica as part of Captain Scott's ill-fated South pole expedition and shot the footage that makes up this extraordinary documentary.
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Recent Viewing 2
Continuing my partial round-up of recently watched movies … The Innkeepers (Ti West, 2011) Ti West is a filmmaker whose work I really want to like, but each film comes as a letdown – except for his second feature, Trigger Man (2007), a […]