Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. This unusual film is the only movie scheduled for this season of Cinema in the Park, a free “series” of showings in downtown ...

While it began over two decades ago, primarily as a vehicle to showcase independent film in Nevada County, The Nevada City Film Festival (NCFF) continues to expand offerings to the community including ...

The oldest surviving, full-length animated film, "The Adventures of Prince Achmed," from 1926, will be brought to life at 7 p.m. Feb. 17 at the Walton Arts Center ...

Cinema Center wraps up this season of its Sound & Shadow series with “The Adventures of Prince Achmed” tonight. The silent film’s screening will be accompanied by a live score by local composers Hope ...

The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) is a rare archive silent hand tinted 35mm print presentation by filmmaker Lotte Reiniger, a German film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation ...

The Adventures of Prince Achmed, on the other hand, is a slightly larger, bass-less project, with Johnston, Spence and Cecire joined by long-standing Australian trombonist James Greening and, the ...

It's a near-avant garde pastiche of Arabian Nights stories, primarily The Ebony Horse and the 18th-century addition Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp. Handsome Achmed is horrified to learn that his sister, ...

This legendary 1926 animated film, an Arabian Nights–style fairy tale, is like a fever dream from another world, consisting of excruciatingly detailed stop-motion silhouette animation. Ahead of its ...

"The Adventures of Prince Achmed" was directed by Lotte Reiniger, who used silhouette animation, a technique that many say she invented, to show a hero's journey with flying horses, magic and romance ...