San Francisco Silent Film Festival (SFSFF) titles include two super-rarities – Padlocked and Flowing Gold – the former starring F. Scott Fitzgerald’s muse Lois Moran.
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As an RKO and MGM star, sassy blonde Ann Sothern had an unconventional professional trajectory: A and B movies in a decades-long film career that had no less than 2 …
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The Doll (movie 1919) review: Ernst Lubitsch satire features incredibly inventive production design. Ossi Oswalda (‘the German Mary Pickford’) and Hermann Thimig stars.
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Comedy Actress Rediscovered: She Could Be Chaplin! But could she really? Interview with film historian Anthony Slide about rare female silent movie comedian.
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Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert: Pulitzer winner, TV star-critic, humanistic Twitter voice has died Roger Ebert, probably the best known movie critic in the United States, died earlier today in Chicago, …
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Clara Bow, Mantrap: The Silent Era’s “It Girl.” What do Andrei Tarkovsky, Edward G. Robinson, Clara Bow, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Audrey Hepburn have in common? Easy. They’ll all be …
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Barbara Sukowa as Hildegard von Bingen in Vision Margerethe von Trotta-Barbara Sukowa ‘Vision’: Hildegard von Bingen in L.A. Margarethe von Trotta’s Vision, Official Selection at the Telluride and Toronto film …
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Robert Osborne: Classic movie selections on TCM. Basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will join Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne to present four of his favorite films in …
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J’accuse!: Abel Gance Anti-War Classic restoration and Lon Chaney + Bimbo the Gibbon and best Buster Keaton movie? All at San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
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It’s always good to hear when a filmmaker is inspired by Woody Allen – as opposed to, say, Quentin Tarantino or Zack Snyder. Case in point: First-timer James C. Ferguson, …
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National Film Registry: Lesbian Western & Asian-American Musical among entries which also include movies by Erich von Stroheim, Elia Kazan + John Huston.
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The General of the Army: Buster Keaton and his train. Bridge insurance needed but not required. Considered by many Buster Keaton’s masterpiece and one of the greatest movies ever made, …
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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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The Crowd with James Murray and Eleanor Boardman: King Vidor’s working-class classic. The sidebar “The Silent City: New York in the Movies, 1898-1928” will accompany Film Forum’s (website) NYC NOIR …
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The Talmadge Sisters Norma and Constance: Unfairly neglected silent era superstars return in sophisticated comedies Her Sister from Paris and Kiki.
Film historian Anthony Slide wearing Tom Mix’s hat in 1976. ‘Hollywood Hero’ John Dewar remembered Perhaps I have been around too long, but as I grow older I grow despondent …
Silent era superstars Norma Talmadge, Constance Talmadge at Norma’s Santa Monica beach house. Norma Talmadge and Constance Talmadge are the stars of two recent Kino International releases. Talmadges who? Well, …
The 13th annual Kansas Silent Film Festival (KSFF) will be held on Feb. 27 and 28, 2009, at the White Concert Hall on the Washburn University campus in Topeka, Kansas. …
Examples of extravagance in the world’s film capital: The Hollywood Book of Extravagance. The Hollywood Book of Extravagance. How do you write something with that sort of title without falling …
Movie festival news from around the world cover big-screen events from New York’s Tribeca to the century’s ‘biggest’ French cinema retrospective in Beijing.