Tod Browning 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 [...]

Bella and Edward in love: Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in Catherine Hardwicke's Twilight Bill Condon to Direct BREAKING DAWN Bill Condon, who will be guiding Twilight Saga leads Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner in Breaking Dawn, is best known for the three feature films he directed in the last twelve years. Gods and Monsters (1998), was a fictionalized account (based on Christopher [...]

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 [...]

Chang by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack (top); J'accuse! by Abel Gance (middle); Lon Chaney in Tod Browning's West of Zanzibar (bottom) Abel Gance's 1919 anti-war drama J'accuse! is the centerpiece of this winter's edition of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, to be held on Saturday, Dec. 12, at the Castro Theater. The 162-minute, recently restored J'accuse!, which is having its US [...]