One of my favorite of the early silent directors, Louis Feuillade, made a big splash in France with Fantômas , five interlinked feature film...

I can't help it—I never met a blogathon I didn't vow to skip yet spent so much time thinking about, I wound up writing for it by ...

This is my contribution to the Speechless Blogathon now underway at Eternity of Dreams . A contemporary of D.W. Griffith and Louis Feuillad...

As I've mentioned before, the first international film star was the French comic, Max Linder. He was also the first true film comedian...

I've written about D.W. Griffith quite a bit—most wordily here , here , here and here . Like every other director of that era, Griffith...

Émile Cohl was a well-known caricaturist working in Paris who got into the motion picture business when he spotted a movie poster design obv...

I think for most people, the history of the sound era in movies begins on October 6, 1927, with the premiere of The Jazz Singer —and certain...