Showing posts with label Silent Film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Silent Film. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Retro Review: HӒXAN (1922)


Welcome to another installment of RETRO REVIEW, your weekly look at the best and worst of cinema before the year 2000. This week, we're going way, way, WAY back to 1922 to take a look at the proto-horror "documentary"...HӒXAN!

Monday, January 23, 2017

Decade of Best Pictures: THE ARTIST


Welcome back to the first DECADE OF BEST PICTURES series of reviews where we will be taking a look at a decade of Best Picture winners over the course of 10 days. In this series we will be looking at the decade of Best Pictures from 2005-2015 in reverse chronological order! This fifth entry will be for the 2011 Best Picture winner THE ARTIST!

Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Foreign Film Spotlight: NOSFERATU


Some of the best films ever created are ones that the general audience has never seen, and this is because they are not made in the states. Welcome to another installment of FOREIGN FILM SPOTLIGHT, where we showcase some of the best in foreign cinema to help broaden your horizons. This week we take a look at the haunting German horror film, NOSFERATU, which was released in 1922 and directed by F.W. Mumau.

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Directorial Debut: Alfred Hitchcock's THE PLEASURE GARDEN


Welcome to another installment of DIRECTORIAL DEBUT, where we look at the best, most interesting and iconic directors and the films that started their careers. This week we'll be reviewing Alfred Hitchcock's freshmen effort...THE PLEASURE GARDEN.

Saturday, August 6, 2016

Short Film Spotlight: A TRIP TO THE MOON (LE VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE)


Welcome to another installment of SHORT FILM SPOTLIGHT. This week we take a look at a film from the Silent Era, the 1902 short film...A TRIP TO THE MOON (LE VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE).

Thursday, July 7, 2016

Retro Review: THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1920)


Welcome to another installment of RETRO REVIEW where we take a look at films made before the year 2000.  Today we take a trip back almost 100 years to review the 1920 black & white silent film, THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI.  Enjoy!