KPBS film critic Beth Accomando will be Procope presenting a film series on PRI code Hollywood this year. Digital gym cinema to provide a definition of what this era was all about. She speaks with ...

German-born director Ernst Lubitsch, who came to Hollywood in the 1920s, had such a deft hand with comedies that it became known as “the Lubitsch touch.” The American Cinematheque’s Aero Theatre in ...

"That was the film that brought Mae West to the movies in a big way," said William Patrick Day, a professor of cinema studies and English at Oberlin College. "She had been a vaudeville and Broadway ...

If you’re a lover of rom-coms, you’ll want to know the work of early Hollywood director Ernst Lubitsch. Though Lubitsch is no longer a widely recognized name the way, say, Charlie Chaplin may be, his ...

The latest film in Jonathan Rosenbaum’s ongoing “Unquiet American: Transgressive Comedies from the U.S.” series is Blonde Crazy, a 1931 pre-Code comedy directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring James ...