Who was the Joker of 1915? Could it be the supervillain of the Italian silent feature "Filibus," a prankish, technology-savvy jewel thief who repeatedly confounds a famous detective and, also a master of disguise, is in fact a woman?
"Filibus: The Mysterious Air Pirate" opens Thursday, Oct. 24 for a week at Anthology Film Archives in Milestone's new 2K digital restoration! We did not find results for: This 1915 Silent Film Was the 'Joker' . Check spelling or type a new query.!! More than a century old, it may be the spryest comic-book movie of the season and perhaps the most progressive.
Produced by a small studio in Turin and shot largely on the Italian Riviera, "Filibus" is a lighthearted analogue to "Fantômas" and "Les Vampires," the pulpy serial melodramas produced in France by Louis Feuillade . The advertising campaign was similar, with enigmatic posters asking, "Who is Filibus???" Who indeed?
The stodgy detective Kutt-Hendy sets out to capture the elusive criminal who, in the very first scene, is revealed as Baroness Troixmond — a name suggestive of her multiple identities.
Not to change the topic here:
Where to Experience Horror Film History in L.A. | KCET
Because in the end, it's all just fantasy – a great escape into another "universe" of mutant races, undiscovered species and experiments gone wrong.
It's a legacy that started on the pages of books and made its way to the radio airwaves, silver screen, and even television – permeating nearly every aspect of entertainment and pop culture.
And some of those first anti-heroes are still as popular today as when they made their Hollywood debuts.
Here are the 6 best places where you can get the "origin stories" of cinema's most terrifying monsters and villains, from classic sci-fi to "creature features" and nearly every shade of celluloid gray in between.
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"Natural History of Horror" is on view during regular museum hours through April 19, 2020. Entry is free with NHM General Admission or NHM Membership. You may also view the exhibit in conjunction with full-length film screenings during "Fright Nights: The Science Behind Scary Movies" – February 14, March 26, and April 10, 2020.
Movies | Riffing at the Riffe: Another bad movie in 'Mystery Science Theater' crosshairs
As the creator of “Mystery Science Theater 3000,” the TV show that celebrated the best of bad movies, Joel Hodgson might be assumed to be on the lookout for the worst in cinema.
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“I’m looking for movies that are good to dance with — like good dance-partner movies for ‘Mystery Science Theater,’” said Hodgson, who hosted the program on Comedy Central from 1988 to 1993. After being cancelled in 1996, the show was picked up by the Sci-Fi Channel, where it ran until 1999.
The original show presented movies of dubious merits accompanied by humorous one-liners by Hodgson and several opinionated puppets, including Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo.
Hodgson promises a bad-movie extravaganza that surpasses the entertainment value of the original TV show.
Study Shows Movies More Fun In Theaters, Even As More Watch At Home
Showcase Cinemas said moviegoers liked every aspect of a film better watching it at the Massachusetts-based chain's flagship theater than at home, according to a biometric study last August of 80 people who screened Jumani: Welcome to the Jungle.
For picture clarity, 98% preferred the big screen versus 53% home. Ditto for sound quality (93% vs. 33%), screen size (95% vs 25%), seating comfort (88% vs 10%) and atmosphere (85% vs 28%.)
"For years, we have been saying on the film exhibition side that the moviegoing experience was more elevated. We were thinking, after all these years, we should really look at this," said Mark Malinowski, Showcase's vice president of global marketing.
Neurophysiological sensors were placed on each subject's hand, wrist and collarbone. Baseline measures were recorded prior to the movie. Researches collected heart rate, which measures attention, and "skin conductance" a measure of neurophysiological excitement, Showcase said..
Quite a lot has been going on:
Event Horizon Telescope Snags New Funding to Capture 1st Movie of a Black Hole | Space
This spring, scientists released the first-ever image of a black hole — but what they really want is to create a movie of a black hole.
For that, the team will need to involve more instruments in the project, and the Event Horizon Telescope just got money to start making that happen. The grant of $12.7 million comes from the National Science Foundation, which is a long-term funding source for the black hole imagery project.
"The spectacular … results have surpassed our wildest expectations, and I am deeply proud of what we achieved as a team," Shep Doeleman, the founding director of the Event Horizon Telescope and an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said in a statement . "Now the question one hears the most is, 'What's next?'"
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"Our own Milky Way is host to a supermassive black hole that evolves dramatically over the course of a night," Katie Bouman, a computer scientist at Caltech who is involved in the Event Horizon Telescope, said in a statement . "We are developing new methods, which incorporate emerging ideas from machine learning and computational imaging, in order to make the very first movies of gas spiraling towards an event horizon."
"The Science Behind Pixar" comes to Denver Museum of Nature & Science
As the Ph.D. curator of space science at Denver Museum of Nature & Science, he specializes in plunging wide-eyed visitors into virtual environments for the sake of education and enlightenment.
Similar, perhaps, to what the Disney-owned Pixar Animation Studios has been doing for the past two-plus decades. Starting with 1995’s “Toy Story” and continuing through the recent “Incredibles 2” and “Toy Story 4,” Pixar has revolutionized computer animation and told enduring stories that resonate with all ages of viewers — while also raking in billions at the box office .
“The Science Behind Pixar.” Interactive, traveling exhibit on digital animation. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily Oct. 11-April 5, 2020, at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd. Reservations encouraged. $25-$30 (includes museum admission). 303-370-6000 or dmns.org
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