Cinema as it is known today had its origins within the films that were made in the 1930s. Although the prior decade had seemed tremendous leaps forwards in the types of formal choices that filmmakers ...

Essential movies of the 1930s and '40s, from 'King Kong' to 'The Heiress' The year 1939 alone -- considered perhaps the best in cinematic history -- provides an exhaustive list of "essential" movies, ...