Brooklyn on Film, 1899-2007: Free Screening at the BHS

The Brooklyn Historical Society are putting on a free screening tomorrow (Thursday) night at 7pm. It sounds excellent: "Films from the earliest days of cinematic technology, including the Edison Studios motion picture records of Brooklyn in the 1890s, and Sarah Bernhardt addressing a crowd in Prospect Park in 1917, will be shown. The screening will also include short documentaries about Brooklyn’s diverse neighborhoods and people. One of which, Brooklyn: Among the Ruins directed by Suzanne Wasserman, introduces audiences to Brooklyn born and bred Paul Kronenberg. Paul is a 60 year-old subway buff who built a life-size replica of a 1930s motorman's subway cab in his tiny bedroom in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn."

Making Movies About Making Movies in Iraq

Come, be part of the story. In Slate today, the Lady BIB looks at Brian De Palma's Redacted and other current films about the Iraq war.

Apaches: UK Public Information Horror

Drowning by grain. Mutilation by muck-spreader. Burned alive by haystack. Growing up in rural England we heard these sorts of cautionary tales from our parents, but what really saved us from agri-tragedy were the epics produced by the Central Office of Information Stay safe in the countryside this holiday weekend. Here is part II of Apaches if you can handle it. Tune in tomorrow for the disturbing Part III season finale.