Film Festival: Silent Greats Metropolis (1927) is a silent German film that is a masterpiece of art direction and science fiction with a strong philosophy. The film begins with “The mediator between brain and hands must be the heart!” The story of Metropolis takes place in 2026. We see machinery grinding away and the hands…
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Lisa’s Home Bijou: The Spirit of St. Louis
Film Festival: Aviation The Spirit of St. Louis, directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jimmy Stewart, gives us a chance to learn more about Lindbergh’s heroic flight. Charles Lindbergh is one of the world’s most famous aviation pioneers. We studied about his daring non-stop crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in school, but we didn’t learn…
Lisa’s Home Bijou: Wings (1927) – first Best Picture
Film Festival: Aviation Wings takes us back to those compelling days during World War I, the first American war in which airplanes and fliers were critically important. The Fokker, the Spad, the Sopwith Camel — all became part of the vocabulary of war. Women played a role in this war too, going to the fronts,…