The complete online text of London Films by William Dean Howells.

William Dean Howells, whose literary career began on the eve of the Civil War and ended after World War I, is one of the three most important American writers of the late nineteenth century. Samuel Langhorne Clemens and Henry James, both of whom were his...

William Dean Howells , whose literary career began on the eve of the Civil War and ended after World War I, is one of the three most important American writers of the late nineteenth century. Samuel Clemens and Henry James, both of whom were his close fr...

William Dean Howells combined a career as an important novelist with that of a journalist. As editor of The Atlantic Monthly and later as author of, or contributor to, the "Editor's Study" and "Editor's Easy Chair" columns in Harper's Monthly, he was an...

C M Talkington's Love and a .45 (11 Nov) opens terrifically: a bored schoolboy (the wonderful Wiley Wiggins of Dazed and Confused) working the convenience store night-shift is held up by Watty Watts (Gil Bellows), a kindly hood who, unbeknown to the boy, never...

BARBARA LONDON IS ASSOCIATE CURATOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF MEDIA AT THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK. 1 Tekkon kinkreet (Michael Arias; Studio 4[degrees]C) In this feature-length anime, a raven ominously soars across Tokyo's vast skies before diving down to saunter...

A meeting between the monarchy and multicultural Britain has ended in a mess.For only the second time in more than 60 years, the annual tradition known as the Royal Film Performance has been canceled.Organizers said an Oct. 29 gala screening of "Brick Lane," which was...