Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A strip of film from George Méliès' 1897 short "Gugusse and the Automaton," which is thought to be the first film to feature what ...

April has arrived, and the Times’ arts and culture staff is abuzz about all the Broadway shows, world-class art and concerts heading to Los Angeles in the coming months. Our critics and reporters ...

Contemporary audiences may be discovering The Odyssey through Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster adaptation of Homer’s work, but filmmakers have been channeling the epic poem almost as long as there ...

Film students will happily bend your ear about the career and influence of Georges Méliès. As has been repeated in film schools and cinematheques the world over, Méliès discovered film when he ...

"Gugusse and the Automaton", a short silent film made by French cinema pioneer Georges Méliès back in 1897, was lost to history until it was found in a trove of film reels donated to the US Library of ...

Take audiences on a fantastic journey! In order to showcase the pictures and narratives in the fantastic worlds of such films as "The Impossible Voyage" or burlesque universes in such shorts as "The ...

Here's a Super Bowl alternative for Sunday — a live movie concert celebrating the magical work of pioneering filmmaker Georges Méliès at the Balboa Theatre. Méliès may not be a household name, but ...

Fifteen Fantastic Works by the Cinema’s First Special Effects Wizard including the documentary Georges Méliès: Cinema Magician Decades before the term “special effects” was coined, audiences of the ...

One of the world’s oldest science fiction movies, Georges Melies’ A Trip to the Moon, is premiering at Cannes with a restored print, in color… with a soundtrack by French electro duo Air. Kelly Watch ...

The legacy of the robot in film is a long and storied one, whether we’re considering such synthetic cinematic luminaries as Andy Kaufman’s character Val in 1981 comedy Heartbeeps, or Bernadette Peters ...