1929's Piccadilly opens on a love triangle — a nightclub dancer (Gilda Gray) in love with the club's owner (Jameson Thomas) while...

I finally saw the last of the movies Douglas Fairbanks made in 1916, The Americano . I've updated the list of thumbnail reviews I post...

Today is Sessue Hayakawa's birthday. You remember Sessue Hayakawa, don't you? I wrote this about him last month: The best performa...

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

The Birth Of A Nation — A Deeply Flawed, Would-Be Masterpiece Introduction Not entirely by coincidence, my series on the early silent era ha...

KC over at Classic Movies reminds me that February is African American History Month. As I've written before, images of African Americ...

August 1, 1930-to-July 31, 1931, was one of those movie years where looking at the list of the Academy's nominees and winners, you'd...

My old pal and movie mentor, bellotoot, and I have been exchanging comments about King Vidor's Hallelujah! , the all-black musical we bo...

It was another busy movie weekend here at the Monkey. In addition to the essay about King Vidor's Hallelujah! , which off and on took a...