Western films

  • One Documentary, One Concert, One Night of Rapturous Viewing!

    One Documentary, One Concert, One Night of Rapturous Viewing!

    Get your toes tapping and your soul soaring with these music documentaries. Starting with the elephant in the room, The Elephant 6 Recording Co. documentary takes an inside look at the 90’s rock collective most famous for Neutral Milk Hotel’s mythically held greatest-album-of-its-decade: 1998’s In the Aeroplane over the Sea. But as Robert Schneider, creative/spiritual leader… Continue reading

  • The Story of Film, Part 4: The Arrival of Sound

    The Story of Film, Part 4: The Arrival of Sound

    Continuing our journey through Mark Cousin’s The Story of Film, we’ve now reached the first full decade of talking pictures. Though silent films would still be made into the mid 1930’s (with some made in both silent and sound versions for a time), by the end of the decade “talkies” would be the industry standard and… Continue reading