LFF Review: The Real Charlie Chaplin
Watching The Real Charlie Chaplin documentary, I was struck that Chaplin’s star persona and the image of the Little Tramp has been tackled ...
Tag: Silent Film
Movies
LFF Dispatch 2: The Reason I Jump: Wolfwalkers: Supernova: The Cheaters
Welcome to our coverage of the London Film Festival 2020! I’ll cover some of this year’s press and industry screenings in bite-sized dispatches, ...
Features
Jackie Chan should make a modern day silent film
Even though Jackie Chan is working on a new Police Story film (Police Story 2013), his days of big and crazy action are ...
Watch the trailer for a 1926 Great Gatsby silent film
Baz Luhrmann will be the newest director to try his hand at creating a cinematic adaptation of the classic American novel The Great ...
Flix for Short: The Old Way and the New Way (1912)
With the Republican National Convention continuing tonight and the election approaching, this is a political installment of Flix for Short. It’s also a ...
Melies’ remastered Trip to the Moon to screen in Chicago
Georges Méliès’ unequivocal masterpiece A Trip to the Moon was recently remastered and the new version now has completely hand-painted color as well ...
Moviegoers demand refunds because The Artist is silent
I found out that The Artist was a silent film a day before I saw it. I could have very easily gone in ...
Air to release A Trip to the Moon score next year
This year’s Cannes Film Festival kicked off with a newly restored print of Georges Méliès’s A Trip to the Moon, featuring a score by ...
Reviews
Review: The Artist
[This review was originally posted as part of our coverage of the 2011 New York Film Festival. It has been reposted to coincide ...
Trailers
Trailer: The Artist
So this is certainly unique. The Artist is a black and white, silent film about the fall of a silent movie star amidst the rise ...
30 minutes of lost Hitchcock movie discovered
The White Shadow, a silent “atmospheric melodrama starring Betty Compson in a dual role as twin sisters, one angelic and the other being ...
Reviews
Review: Away
While the definition of film will vary from person to person, no one can deny it is a visual medium. Despite featuring stories ...