Showing posts with label silent film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label silent film. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 10, 2018

The Last Command and The Act of Killing

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We've gotten a lot of new movies already in 2018, but one of my favorites so far is a set of three silent films by Josef Von Sternberg ...
Thursday, November 02, 2017

Silent Cinema Showcase 2017

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AFI in Silver Spring is having their Silent Cinema Showcase, and it's a great lineup! You can see the listing by film here:  https://s...
Wednesday, October 04, 2017

It's Buster Keaton's Birthday!

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Celebrate by checking out one of our quietly awesome streaming databases, Silent Film Online ! via GIPHY
Wednesday, May 03, 2017

For the silent film treasure hunter...

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Imogen Sara Smith highlights Mostly Lost on Criterion . Definitely worth a read. On eventbrite, the description of the Mostly Lost workshop ...
Thursday, April 20, 2017

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Check out this silent version of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea on Viki:  https://www.viki.com/videos/1037941v-20000-leagues-under-the-sea T...
Friday, January 13, 2017

Silent Movie GIFs shows the sausage-making behind old special effects

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Special effects aren't usually exciting anymore. Filmmakers can create worlds and human beings from whole cloth now, so digital tric...
Monday, November 07, 2016

No, a silent film of a train probably didn't cause mass hysteria

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You've probably heard this one before: back during the dawn of motion pictures, a short movie showing a train heading for the camera ca...
Thursday, October 13, 2016

A new lost Méliès was discovered... after it was mislabeled

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A Trip to the Moon, not Match de Prestidigitation First there was the lost Hitchcock film . Then, the lost Laurel and Hardy sequence . ...
Monday, February 01, 2016

Atlas Obscura thinks Fritz Lang may have invented rocket countdowns

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Life imitates art, but rarely does art have the chance to define the hallmark of a totally unrelated field. For an example of when a film m...
Sunday, September 18, 2011

This shot is the most expensive shot in silent film history

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The General (1926) - HU DVD 34 This shot is the most expensive shot in silent film history. It was filmed in a single take, that had to be ...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Lost-Films.eu Identifies Missing Films Through Crowdsourcing

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Lost Films is a collaborative effort among film societies in Germany, France, Poland, New Zealand and several other countries to help iden...