L.A. Confidential: From Book to Screen

Co-screenwriters Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland recount the challenges in bringing James Ellroy's sprawling novel to the silver screen in all its bloody, beautiful glory.

Bad Bananas on the Silver Screen

Zany foursome Errol, Herman, Tacio, and Peewee merely geared up for a short underwater dive towards Hundred Islands when a series of miscalculations cause them to resurface on the shores of Mexico.

Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12

A tour of Hollywood, featuring such star frequented spots as the Vendome, the Lakeside Golf Club, the West Side Tennis Club, the Santa Anita Racetrack, the Ambassador Hotel's Cocoanut Grove, the Biltmore Bowl, and the Am

SCREEN TEST [ST256]: BUFFY PHELPS

William W. ‘Buffy’ Phelps is placed against a speckled backdrop as he squints and blinks furiously at the camera. His nose casts a dark shadow onto his cheek. After suffering through the full three minutes, he can be see

Screen Test: Edie Sedgwick & Kipp Stagg

Screen Test of Edie Sedgwick and Kipp Stagg (aka Bima Stagg).

Starz Inside: Comics on Screen

Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)

Intimate views of the movie stars of the Silent Era, at work and play; featuring Sessue Hayakawa, Lillian Gish and others.

Jessica Tandy: Theatre Legend to Screen Star

This is a lovely documentary that pays tribute to the career of star Jessica Tandy, as the filmmakers recall what it was like to work with this marvelous actress. This featurette is fairly short, but it offers fine insig

Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'

Documentary about the adaptation of the 1988 novel by Thomas Harris into the 1991 film directed by Jonathan Demme. Originally presented in two parts on Bravo Television.

SCREEN TEST [ST29]: RANDY BOURSCHEIDT

Randy Bourscheidt, preppily dressed in a tie and tweed jacket, looks up and down, then shyly faces the camera, trying not to smile. He bites his lips, grins, relaxes, and then brushes the hair out of his eyes.

Screen Follies No. 1

Screen Test [ST271]: Lou Reed (Hershey)

A second Hershey Lou Reed screen test.

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died in those 25 years. Finally there are tributes to the Screen Snapshots

Photoplay Magazine Screen Supplement #6

Shows brief glimpses into the lives of movie stars of the time. Included is shots of Elsie Janis in her garden in Tarrytown, where she gives an impersonation of Mary Pickford. The film also shows the parts of the marriag

Things You Never See on the Screen

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.

Lovers of the Silver Screen

First work of Hisayasu Sato

White Screen (for Amy Halpern)

"White Screen starts with the idea that perception is a worldmaking ability. It is simple: a change in the lens’ focus can either allow us to see a tree or a forest, and brings an understanding that these two things exis

Screen Snapshots: Memorial to Al Jolson

Jack Benny narrates the Screen Snapshots that, utilizing archive footage, traces the career of Al Jolson, and rare off-stage shots of Jolson with stars such as Bob Hope, Eddie Cantor and Pat O'Brien.

Screen Test [ST68]: Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí glares aghast at the camera, his head held high and lit dramatically from below. Halfway through the film, there is a sudden in-camera edit, and Dalí disappears from view; the rest of the film shows only th

Three Incursions into a Screen

An incantatory exercise of a balancing act on the rocks of an invested place, camera in hand at knee height, uttering by heart in the physical breath, a poem - which became, following his death, a tribute to Louis-René d