The colors on the screen rise and fall, nearly bursting from the borders of the geometric shapes. Walter Ruttmann’s 1921 short film “Lichtspiel Opus I” is oil paint on glass, but tonight in The ...

The symbiotic relationship between film studios and fan magazines ensured the cinema-going public was fed a diet of Hollywood glamour and celebrity gossip From press junkets to gossip blogs to the ...

Memoir's vivid scene: Van Doren recalls Joan Crawford's disapproving reaction to Marilyn Monroe's gold lame gown performance at the 1953 Photoplay Awards. Public denouncement: Crawford reportedly ...

It may seem hard to believe now, but there were awards given out in Hollywood before the Oscars came along. Nine years before the first Academy Awards were handed out in 1929, the movie fan ...

In his 1919 manual for screenwriters, Ten Million Photoplay Plots, Wycliff Aber Hill provided this taxonomy of possible types of dramatic "situations," first running them down in outline form, then ...

Most of us have probably assumed that the days of video stores are over. Those friendly clerks at the counter who had your dream job (watching movies all day and offering film recommendations) had to ...

Australian independent production house Photoplay has appointed Karen Radzyner as its head of development. The company is the only Australian firm to have a show selected for MipTV’s CanneSeries.

Photoplay Has announced the signing of award-winning New Zealand filmmaker Louis Sutherland (lead image) for representation in Australia. A performance driven director who has been called a “big softy ...

Photoplay is thrilled to announce the signing of internationally renowned director, Lance Kelleher. Kelleher returns to Australia from time spent living and working in the United States and across ...