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

It's no wonder the surrealists loved Feuillade—his Paris is simultaneously whimsical and deadly, a place where you can lean out a second...

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

One of these contests, you'll probably have an opinion about; the other—well, even I'm not so big a fan of silent movies as to think...

The awards for the years before 1914 are very much a work in progress ... 1913 PICTURE winner: Fantômas (The Complete Series) (prod. Romeo...

Still expanding the Silent Oscars backwards—what can I tell you, I accidentally learned too much about old silent movies to keep my opinions...

Forget auteur theory, formalism, genre studies or any of that other film school claptrap, the unifying thread running through any well-round...

[To read Part One of this essay (a review of The Birth of a Nation , click here ] Les Vampires —The Best Movie(s) Of 1915 Almost from cinema...