The Unknown Articles

Lon Chaney, He Who Gets Slapped Lon Chaney is one of the most fascinating movie stars in film history. Throughout the 1920s, Chaney was one the biggest box-office draws the world over despite what could kindly be described as an unhandsome face — one that was often disguised by heavy layers of makeup to make him look ancient, deformed, Chinese, female, etc. His roles usually [...]

Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford in Tod Browning's The Unknown (MGM) (top); Toni Myers' Hubble 3D (IMAX / Warner Bros.) (bottom) The 2010 SXSW Film Festival will take place March 12-20 in Austin, Texas. All My Friends are Funeral Singers with Live Soundtrack by Califone Director and Screenwriter: Tim Rutili Zel, a fortune-teller, is aided in her prognostication by a band of ghosts, but when a [...]

Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer in The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg FILM Breakfast at Sunrise d: Malcolm St. Clair; scr: Fred De Gresac, Gladys Unger The Enemy d: Fred Niblo; scr: Willis Goldbeck, Agnes Christine Johnston; titles: John Colton The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg d: Ernst Lubitsch; scr: Hans Kräly; titles: Marion Ainslee, Ruth Cummings The Unknown d: Tod Browning; scr: Waldemar Young; titles: [...]

Oscar 2008: Best Foreign Language Film Semi-Finalists The semi-finalist films, listed in alphabetical order by country, are: Austria, The Counterfeiters, Stefan Ruzowitzky, director Nazis have a Jewish prisoner create fake American and British currency in order to weaken their enemies' economies Brazil, The Year My Parents Went on Vacation, Cao Hamburger, director In 1970, during the height of the military dictatorship in Brazil, a boy [...]