Den hvide slavehandels sidste offer
There is nothing subtle about Den hvide slavehandels sidste offer (1911). August Blom’s film Den hvide slavehandels sidste offer is meant to shock viewers into action with its ribald sensationalism…. Read more »
Tag: silent film
Sherlock Jr.
There are some films that have been so celebrated and so often written about that it is difficult to imagine that one could have anything new to say. However, only… Read more »
Hellbound Train
Marginalized and oppressed by society, Black American filmmakers made their films on the fringe for decades. Black filmmakers James and Eloyce Gist made films to augment their sermons as part… Read more »
Children Of Divorce
The essential “It” girl and Hollywood’s first sex symbol Clara Bow gives a rather restrained performance in the Frank Lloyd melodrama Children Of Divorce (1927). The verve and youthful recklessness… Read more »
The Unknown
Tod Browning’s film The Unknown (1927) was an inspiration to Burt Lancaster. Often, in interviews, Lancaster spoke about Lon Chaney’s performance in this film, particularly the moment where Chaney’s character… Read more »
Die Bergkatze
Pola Negri and Ernst Lubitsch knew each other from the Berlin stage before they ever made a film together. And, if one is to believe Norman Zierold, Lubitsch got the… Read more »
Beggars Of Life
Why did you always hate making pictures, Louise? – William A. Wellman, 1932 Beggars Of Life (1928) is another unsung classic getting a second life courtesy of Kino-Lorber. Beggars Of… Read more »
Der letzte Mann
Murnau, Lang, and Weine are three of the most world renowned German Filmmakers of all time. It was at the dawn of the 1920s that Germany experienced a renaissance of… Read more »
Häxan
Häxan (1922) has lost little of its ability to shock and awe almost 100 years after its original release. I remember when I first saw Benjamin Christensen’s masterwork when I… Read more »
After Death
At the same time that D.W. Griffith was making The Escape (1914) and Home, Sweet Home (1914) in America and Louis Feuillade was making Les Vampires (1915-16) in France, Evgeni… Read more »
