L’Inhumaine (movie 1924) review: Uniquely modernistic Marcel L’Herbier silent mixes sex melodrama, revenge thriller and science fiction.
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Rediscovering long-forgotten Silent Film Star known for ‘the most beautiful’ back reportedly insured for (an adjusted) million dollars.
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Huckleberry Finn movie: Lewis Sargent toplines sentimental William Desmond Taylor effort. Huckleberry Finn (1920) movie review: Huckleberry Finn movie review: Sentimental Fare Directed by Eventual Murder Victim Directed by William…
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Lost movie: Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh. Oscar Winner Emil Jannings & Theda Bara + Lon Chaney & Clara Bow in Color: ‘Fragments’ on TCM The final…
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Marilyn Bergman and Alan Bergman at 1983 Academy Awards. Songwriters Alan and Marilyn Bergman, among whose compositions are “The Way We Were” and the song score for Yentl, will be…
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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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Author and film historian Anthony Slide has another book out, (politically) Incorrect Entertainment or Trash from the Past: A history of political incorrectness and bad taste in 20th century American…
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The 2007 San Francisco Silent Film Festival (SFSFF) will be held at the Castro Theatre on July 13–15. Among the festival’s highlights are: Ernst Lubitsch’s The Student Prince in Old…
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Theda Bara in ‘Cleopatra’: ‘The Woman with the Hungry Eyes’ screening at MoMA Theda Bara: ‘Cleopatra’ Star Featured in Documentary The Woman with the Hungry Eyes, about the life and…
Rudolph Valentino in ‘Blood and Sand’ Rudolph Valentino Movies: ‘Blood and Sand,’ starring Hollywood’s foremost Latin Lover, at the Hollywood Heritage Museum The Hollywood Heritage Museum will celebrate the birthday…
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…