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Bruce Goldstein loves movies from the Pre-Code Era. Give him 30 minutes, and he’ll give you the entire history of it. As the founding director of repertory programming at New York’s Film Forum (as ...

The most exciting time in Hollywood was arguably the ephemeral period before the stingy rules implemented by the industry. Before the adoption of the Hays Code, the guideline that major studios ...

This week in puzzling online discourse, a subset of Gen Z is looking wistfully back on the era of the Motion Picture Production Code, also known as the Hays Code, a voluntary (well, technically) set ...

About 20 years ago I was in a kind of partnership with another film historian who told me that, no, there wasn’t a market for a book on pre-code movies. I can only wonder what he thinks today after ...

As more people got their hands on early film cameras, movies quickly went from snapshots of someone sneezing to workers clocking out to full-blown narratives exploring life, love, and the human ...

” Oh, come on now, Edith. Please, please, let’s be honest with ourselves. You weren’t thinking any more of Dick than i was. “ Film Detective (TFD), a leading classic media streaming network and film ...

Elliot Lavine, programmer of pre-Code films at the Castro Theatre (every Wednesday through March 30), was raised in Detroit, moved to the Bay Area in the 1970s with the thought of becoming a filmmaker ...