Tag: Classic Cinema

  • Gothic Thrillers in the Public Domain to Watch If You Loved Wuthering Heights

    Gothic Thrillers in the Public Domain to Watch If You Loved Wuthering Heights

    There’s a reason we keep coming back to Wuthering Heights. If you’re captivated by the dark allure of Catherine and Heathcliff, you don’t have to look far for films that capture a similar spirit. Gaslight (1940) Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow’s murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen…

  • We Watched The Man Who Laughs (1928) | Silent Film Review

    We Watched The Man Who Laughs (1928) | Silent Film Review

    Silent films, they’re stuffy and boring, right? That’s certainly what I thought until recently, when one movie changed my mind. The Man Who Laughs (1928) is a silent film based on the novel of the same name by Victor Hugo. When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of King James in 1690, he…

  • Bambi Meets Godzilla (1969)

    Bambi Meets Godzilla (1969)

    In 1969, Marv Newland, a film student in Los Angeles, created Bambi Meets Godzilla. A  90 second short that shows Disney’s Bambi grazing a field to the accompaniment of Rossini’s William Tell, then, without warning, Godzilla’s foot enters the frame, set to the final chord of the Beatles’ A Day in the Life, squishing Bambi.…

  • The Penultimate Episode of The Mysterious Air Pirate premiers this Friday at 3pm Eastern.

    The Penultimate Episode of The Mysterious Air Pirate premiers this Friday at 3pm Eastern.

    Episode 4 of our new score and translation for The Mysterious Air Pirates from us at CBN and our friends at New Ellijay TV premiers this friday at 3pm. You can click above to be notified when the video premiers and watch along with us, with a live chat! If you’d prefer to watch the…

  • Love That Brooding Feeling? 4 Free Gothic Romances to Watch if you Loved Wuthering Heights

    Love That Brooding Feeling? 4 Free Gothic Romances to Watch if you Loved Wuthering Heights

    Captivated by the Gothic romance, tragedy, and windswept drama of Wuthering Heights? These public domain classics will satisfy your craving for more tales of doomed love, dark secrets, and emotional intensity. Rebecca (1940) Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine brings Daphne du Maurier’s haunting Gothic novel to life. Like Wuthering Heights, it…