From 1895, the traditional date for the birth of cinema as we know it (that is, the projection of celluloid, in public space, for money — a racket first stumbled upon by Auguste and Louis Lumière in ...

A woman filmmaker. Courtesy SDSU Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film. The number of women working in leadership roles on top-grossing films has increased by just 7% over the past 25 ...

"There are plastics in your toaster, in the blender and the clock, in the lamp and in the roaster, on the door and in the lock, in the washer and the dryer and the garden tools you lend, in your music ...

Q. My mother recently gave me this dresser set that my grandmother had all her life. The only marking says “French Ivory.” Can you tell me anything about this nine-piece set? –Marilyn Turpin, Manteca, ...

Once upon a time, going to cinemas approximated a religious experience. Like devotees seeking darshan, cinephiles left their homes, reached the theatres, and hoped to get tickets. The ritual involved ...

For 120 years, cinema film has been distributed and stored on rolls of celluloid, and shown by projecting light through the £1000 rolls of film. But in early 2012, digital cinema will overtake ...

Groundbreaking French-Iranian sales agent and producer Hengameh Panahi, who represented a myriad of renowned Cannes and Venice prize-winning auteur directors, has died at the age of 67. Paris-based ...