Day 16 – Hannibal, Missouri + Faithless (1932)

Becky Thatcher, Tom Sawyer and friend. We spent a fun couple of hours in Hannibal where every other business has been named after Mark Twain.  After reading Life on the Mississippi I love him even more than before. I’ve been watching plenty of movies on TCM but seldom without interruption and ... Read full article

What’s Eating Hannibal Lecter?

NBC’s new midseason crime drama Hannibal concerns itself with cinema’s most sophisticated and debonair serial killer, prior to his capture – and before a younger woman named Clarice Starling has come into his life. In The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Lecter cites Roman Emperor Marcus Au... Read full article

From Hannibal to Hollywood: Mark Twain on Film

By the time Samuel Langhorne Clemens died in 1910, the world was already witnessing the rise of film as a major medium. The first permanent movie theater in the United States had been built in Los Angeles in 1902; the French science-fiction film, A Trip to the Moon, had also debuted in 1902, and the... Read full article

From Hannibal to Hollywood: Mark Twain on Film

By the time Samuel Langhorne Clemens died in 1910, the world was already witnessing the rise of film as a major medium. The first permanent movie theater in the United States had been built in Los Angeles in 1902; the French science-fiction film, A Trip to the Moon, had also debuted in 1902, and the... Read full article

From Hannibal to Hollywood: Mark Twain on Film

By the time Samuel Langhorne Clemens died in 1910, the world was already witnessing the rise of film as a major medium. The first permanent movie theater in the United States had been built in Los Angeles in 1902; the French science-fiction film, A Trip to the Moon, had also debuted in 1902, and the... Read full article