All Articles Tagged 'movie' (148)

Hello, old sport. Have I seen The Great Gatsby? But of course! It’s simply the talk of the town, and anybody who’s anyone was there at the premiere.

Let me say that Baz Luhrmann, the director of this shindig, really knows how to throw a party. His bombastic style is the perfect technicolor stage for a story about the 1920s. I didn’t want to miss a beat, so I re-read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tale of obsession just last week. Like most people, I originally read…

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Every once in a while you discover that something incredible is happening right in your back yard. Just such a thing happened to the Cap'n when he discovered the teaser trailer to "The Doktor is In" posted in an article here at Dieselpunks.org, The "Doktor" a dieselpunk horror film in production from Back Alley Productions out of Richmond, Virginia, USA, a mere hour south of…

Richard Raaphorst’s WWII-based dieselpunk horror movie, Frankenstein's Army, is running on blood, sweat, and more blood these days. Just released by Dark Sky Films, we have our first two glimpses into the evil minds behind this undead nightmare.

The first still features “Propellerhead”, a hulking Nazi automaton that uses its spinning rotors to slice a bloody swath through the film’s terrified, lost Russian battalion.…

Hello everyone! We are all very busy preparing the shooting of the movie, but we took the time to make a new, little, video presentation. I hope you'll enjoy it.

Stay tuned!

PS: I did the subtitles, if there are any mistakes please do tell me with a PM! Silly french people and their bad engish :o)!

Lights out, everybody.

On Miskatonic Mondays, we celebrate the "weird" fiction of HP Lovecraft and the genre of otherworldly horror it spawned.

Filmmaker Jard Skolnick’s new short film, The Earth Rejects Him, premiered Saturday at the Tribeca Grand in NYC.  In it a young boy discovers a corpse while biking in the woods, then faces unexpected and macabre consequences when he tries to bury it.”

It was screened with his previous film, an adaptation of H.P.…

         Change is a constant force in our lives. Technologies change. Tastes change. One minute, people appreciate your talent, the next, you're outdated, an instant anachronism. But that doesn't mean you don't have talent anymore. This is the theme of The…

I saw this yesterday, and I thought it might be of interest to the Dieselpunk community. It's an unabashedly retro-styled, old-fashioned, somewhat subversive film about the Tuskegee Airmen and their service during WWII. It paints these men as true heroes in a way that you do not see very often in…

On Saturday Matinee, we showcase full-length films from or about the diesel era.

This week, we're showing the second half of the film pair that introduced Louise Brooks to the world as the "it" girl of the 1920s.

What you need to know about Diary of a Lost Girl

Diary of a Lost Girl (German title: Tagebuch einer Verlorenen) is a 1929 silent film directed by George Wilhelm Pabst and starring the American…

Welcome to the Tuschinski movie theater in Amsterdam. This spectacular cinema was opened in 1921 by Abraham Icek Tuschinski. The architectoral style is predominently Art Deco but architect Hijman Louis de Jong also integrated many other styles. The main auditorium was…

On Saturday Matinee, we showcase full-length films from or about the diesel era.

This week, we're showing the film that turned Louise Brooks into the flapper sex symbol we know today.

What you need to know about Pandora's Box…

On Saturday Matinee, we showcase full-length films from or about the diesel era.

Today, in honor of New Year's Eve, we're playing a debaucherous yet creepy silent film from the 1920s entitled Seven Footprints To Satan.

What you need to know about Seven Footprints To Satan

A fearless adventurer (Creighton Hale) and his fiance (Thelma Todd) find themselves imprisoned in a house of…

An early Christmas bonus from the British Film Institute - they've released a fragment from the 1901 film of Dickens's A Christmas Carol on their excellent YouTube site.



Scrooge, or Marley's Ghost, was produced by R. W. Paul the early film pioneer, and based on a stage adaptation by J. C. Buckstone.



This Times review of Buckstone's Vaudeville Theatre production from the same year gives an idea of the style of the thing:



Ebenezer Scrooge is, of course, the…

In the mid-1980s producer Giorgio Moroder released a highly controversial version of the silent movie era classic: Metropolis. According to Wikipedia:

In 1984, a new restoration and edit of the film was made by Giorgio Moroder, a music producer who specialized in pop-rock soundtracks for motion pictures. Moroder's version of the film introduced a new contemporary pop music soundtrack for the film. Although it restored a number of previously missing scenes and plot details…

On Saturday Matinee, we showcase full-length films from or about the diesel era.

Today, we giving a little sympathy for the devil with D.W. Griffith's 1926 version of The Sorrows of Satan.

What you need to know about The Sorrows of Satan

After completing a novel in his London garret, Geoffrey Tempest meets Mavis Claire, another struggling writer, and they drink to the success of his novel, in which he…

Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)

On Saturday Matinee, we showcase full-length films from or about the diesel era.

You didn't think I'd let you off the hook yet? Just because Halloween is behind us, it doesn't mean that all of the ghosts and ghouls go away peacefully.

What you need to know

In 19th Century Paris, the maniacal Dr. Mirakle abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove…

Wilkommen, Bienvenue, and Welcome, im Cabaret, au Cabaret, to Cabaret, mein freunds!

  And today we are in beautiful Berlin Germany, center of culture for the newborn Republic of Germany! Yes, the Kaiser is gone, and though tensions run deep and pockets run empty, there's no doubt that the nation is thriving scientifically and culturally with a music, dance, and film scene that leaves even Paris in the dust!…

On Saturday Matinee, we showcase full-length films from or about the diesel era.

We end our horrifying walk through the Halloween movie crypt with 1935's big budget monster classic, The Bride of Frankenstein.

What you need to know

Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experiment business, but when a mad…

Boas-vindas, and All Aboard for a first class luxury flight to that grandest and most glamourous tropical hot spots, Rio de Janeiro!  And the Cap'n has definitely outdone himself today, because he loves you.

 Yes, sun, sand, and some of the world's most beautiful women await in this great aviation and maritime crossroads! Catch the Clipper, catch a Zeppelin, catch some rays, catch a local…

On Saturday Matinee, we showcase full-length films from or about the diesel era.

Now you see him, now you don't.  1933's The Invisible Man is our next entry in our gallery of Halloween rogues.

What you need to know

The plot is simple; a scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.

Why this film is important

Number one, this is a 1930s take on the classic 1897 story by…