Category Archives: silent films
Frank Lloyd III: Silent Films
Jackie Coogan in Oliver Twist Frank Lloyd II: CAVALCADE, MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY In your book, you discuss a number of early Frank Lloyd efforts, including many rarities from the 1910s. I’m assuming you got to watch many of those films. The questions are: Are there many extant Frank Lloyd silents? How do they compare with the work of other major silent filmmakers who tackled [...]
Best Films – 1926
Mary Pickford in Sparrows FILM Dancing Mothers d: Herbert Brenon; scr: Forrest Halsey Don Juan d: Alan Crosland; scr: Bess Meredyth; titles: Walter Anthony, Maude Fulton Kid Boots d: Frank Tuttle; scr: Luther Reed, Tom Gibson; titles: George Marion Jr. The Scarlet Letter d: Victor Sjöström (aka Victor Seastrom); scr: Frances Marion The Show d: Tod Browning; scr: Waldemar Young; titles: Joseph W. Farnham Sparrows [...]
Douglas Fairbanks’ THE THIEF OF BAGDAD and THE IRON MASK Screening
Rare screenings of the Douglas Fairbanks adventure classics The Thief of Bagdad (1924) and The Iron Mask (1929) will be presented on Friday, March 20, and Monday, March 23, respectively, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Both screenings will start at 7:30 pm. Silent film historian and preservationist Kevin Brownlow will be a guest presenter at [...]
Cinefest 2009
The 29th edition of Cinefest, which runs from Thursday, March 19 through Sunday, March 22, 2009, in Syracuse’s suburb of Liverpool, NY, will once again showcase an array of silent and sound shorts and features for those interested in discovering long-forgotten gems that more frequently than you’d expect turn out to be more enjoyable than much of what’s being made today. (Above, top photo,Gary Cooper [...]