Victor Sjöström’s The Scarlet Letter with Lillian Gish. Considering that religious puritans (and their politically correct cohorts) continue to plague the world at the beginning of the third millennium, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter remains as relevant today as when it was first published in…
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Vilma Banky. Edward G. Robinson was only 37 years old when he gave this hammy, scene-stealing, over-the-top performance as Tony, a middle-aged Italian grape grower in Napa Valley, California, in Victor Sjöström’s A Lady to Love. Robinson is loud, peripatetic, hyperkinetic, and his accent sometimes…
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The Fall of the House of Usher (top); John Gilbert, Eleanor Boardman in Bardelys the Magnificent (middle); Douglas Fairbanks, Lupe Velez in The Gaucho (bottom) Douglas Fairbanks, John Gilbert, and Lillian Gish are only a few of the superstars to be found at the…
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Ingmar Bergman: ‘Persona’ & ‘The Seventh Seal’ + ‘Cries and Whisper’s filmmaker dead at 89 Ingmar Bergman, one of the most influential and acclaimed filmmakers of the twentieth century, died on July 30 at his home on the island of Faro, Sweden. Bergman, whose filmography…
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A few recommendations for those who watch Turner Classic Movies: The beautifully photographed (and tinted) 1921 Cecil B. DeMille sex drama The Affairs of Anatol stars Wallace Reid as the Anatol of the title, married to poor, little Gloria Swanson, while getting acquainted with a…