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Thursday, November 17, 2011

A Pola Negri Double Feature: The Eyes Of The Mummy And Carmen

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Before Marlene Dietrich, before Ingrid Bergman, Sophia Loren or even Greta Garbo, Polish film star Pola Negri made the journey from Europe t...
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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Cleopatra (1917)

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So what's the most difficult part of reviewing silent movies, you might ask. That's easy: the fact that something like 80% of them ...
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

The Silent Oscars: 1915—Part Three

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Forget auteur theory, formalism, genre studies or any of that other film school claptrap, the unifying thread running through any well-round...
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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Cheesecake, Circa 1915

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I'm working on another of those mammoth essays, this about the films of 1915 generally, which I am determined to post by Saturday at the...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Not All Vampires Suck Your Blood

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I have a drop-dead lawyer-business deadline tomorrow so of course I've been watching movies. I've got two unrelated projects going ...
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Look at me—Joe College, with a touch of arthritis. Are my eyes really brown? Uh, no, they're green. Would we have the nerve to dive into the icy water and save a person from drowning? That's a key question. I, of course, can't swim, so I never have to face it. Say, haven't you anything better to do than to keep popping in here early every morning and asking a lot of fool questions?
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