Sessue Hayakawa on Turner Classic Movies Tuesday, June 3, highlights on Turner Classic Movies: TCM continues with the not-to-be-missed “Asian Images in Film” series, with several silents and a couple…
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The 1959 MGM version of Ben-Hur is best remembered for its chariot race, which happens to be an imitation of the superior 1925 race for that studio’s mammoth – and…
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Mr. Wu (movie 1927) review: The genius of Lon Chaney and the best production values that MGM could buy make William Nigh’s ‘exotic’ movie adaptation a must-see.
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Shadows (movie 1922) review: In Tom Forman’s Victorian but engrossing melodrama , Lon Chaney brings dignity to his Chinese victim and savior stranded in racist England.
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (movie 1925) review: MGM star Ramon Novarro delivers a charismatic performance in Fred Niblo’s still impressive silent era mega-blockbuster.
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The Penalty (movie 1920) review: Man of a Thousand Faces Lon Chaney delivers another phenomenally creepy portrayal in Wallace Worsley’s top-notch revenge thriller.
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Max Schreck in Nosferatu 1922. Max Schreck: Nosferatu 1922 ‘batman’ biography to come out in Germany The first biography of Max Schreck, best known as the “batman” a.k.a. vampire in…
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From NBC News Senior Investigative Producer Jim Popkin: “The FBI does not have a pornographic home movie of actress Marilyn Monroe in its files and never did, FBI officials tell…
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The Passion of Joan of Arc (movie 1928) review: Carl Theodor Dreyer’s masterwork will leave viewers as anguished as its magnificent French martyr. Maria Falconetti stars.
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“Important international stars from the silent era of filmmaking are undeservedly forgotten today because of the unavailability of their motion pictures, which are often considered lost.” Thus begins the press…
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A Fool There Was (movie 1915) review: Starring Theda Bara as the destroyer of men, Frank Powell’s silent is a cinematic landmark for its depiction of the power of female sexuality.
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The Godless Girl (movie 1928) review: Cecil B. DeMille directed a thoughtful theological drama that will convert the most hardened of cynics. Lina Basquette and Tom Keene star.
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The Volga Boatman (movie 1926) review: Cecil B. DeMille’s Russian Revolution epic lets viewers decide on whose – cruel, despicable – side they’re on. Piercing-eyed William Boyd stars.
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The Single Standard (movie 1929) review: A sexually liberated Greta Garbo is great in the thoroughly enjoyable silent melodrama. Nils Asther and Johnny Mack Brown costar.
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Jack Neely’s “The Forgotten Director: Who was Clarence Brown?” at Metro Pulse: “Dr. Gwenda Young, a film-studies professor at University College Cork, came across [Clarence] Brown by an unlikely route.…
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Cries and Whispers. Ingmar Bergman (right) will be the subject of a weekend-long salute – with the screening of five of his Academy Award-nominated and winning films – beginning Friday,…
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Sex Education Film Class courtesy of the BFI + Glasgow Bette Davis Tribute and Woody Allen thriller + Evolution of Russian Cinema from Eisenstein to Sokurov.
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Young at Heart. The Oscar-winning documentaries Young at Heart, The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table, and You Don’t Have to Die will screen on…
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9 (mostly) hard-to-find movies worth digging include titles starring Jean Harlow, Douglas Fairbanks and Clint Eastwood precursor William S. Hart.
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Between Oct. 25–28, Aberystwyth’s National Library of Wales and the Aberystwyth Arts Centre will host the newly created film festival Fflics – Wales Screen Classics. Fflics will screen about 30…
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“Triumph” definition: Discovering long-thought lost cinematic works, such as the (coincidentally titled) Joseph De Grasse-directed 1917 drama Triumph, starring Dorothy Phillips and featuring future Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer superstar Lon Chaney in one…
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Barbara La Marr dies in the arms of star-in-the-making Ramon Novarro in Fred Niblo’s 1924 melodrama Thy Name Is Woman. Cecilia Rasmussen in the Los Angeles Times: “Silent-film actress and screenwriter…
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Marcel Marceau: World-renowned mime artist dead at 84 Mime artist Marcel Marceau died in Cahors, France, on Saturday, Sept. 22, 2007. The cause of death was not immediately known. Marceau…
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Back in the late 1920s, Anita Page could never have dreamed that eight decades later she would be a celebrity of sorts: The Official Last Surviving Silent Film Star. In…
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Baseball films on DVD: From Babe Ruth to Colleen Moore Kino’s “Reel Baseball – 1899–1926” two-disc set has become one of that DVD distributor’s biggest sellers in their silent film…
The Kid (movie 1921) review: Charles Chaplin’s homage to unconventional families mixed with social commentary, this feature remains just as touching 9 decades after its release.
Sparrows (movie 1926) review: Silent era icon Mary Pickford meets Jesus while fighting the evils of child trafficking in William Beaudine’s memorable sentimental melodrama.
La Roue DVD: Abel Gance mammoth silent era classic. “There is cinema before and after La Roue as there is painting before and after Picasso.” That’s none other than Jean…
Stella Maris (movie 1918) review: Had the Oscars been around a decade earlier, Mary Pickford would’ve been a winner for her dual performance in this Marshall Neilan melodrama.
Sessue Hayakawa. Sessue Hayakawa: Pioneering East Asian actor in Old Hollywood Japanese-born actor Sessue Hayakawa, a Hollywood star in the 1910s, is discussed in Anthony Venutolo’s The Star-Ledger article “Cinema…
Rudolph Valentino and Alice Terry in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, one of the biggest box office hits of the silent era. Eighty-six years after its original release, Rex…
The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson and May McAvoy. Zero chemistry, but film history all the same. Though hardly a cinematic masterpiece – or even a good film, for that matter…