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Pordenone Silent Film Festival 2020 Thoughts

Shawn Hall October 13, 2020 0

As a poor, young millennial on the verge of entering the full-time job market (if it...

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Harold Lloyd: The Boy with Glasses’ Silent Movies Ranked

Shawn Hall April 20, 2020 1
Ranked from my favorite to most favorite! Read the whole post
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What Makes a Great Film

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I recently watched Ingmar Bergman’s classic The Seventh Seal for the first time. To be brutally...

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Before Buster Keaton launched his legendary run of solo shorts, he got his first starring role in a feature with THE SAPHEAD. Keaton doesn't direct this one, but you can already see pieces of the screen character he would soon make completely his own.

Follow along as I work my way through Buster Keaton's short silent films, with a new review every day through Silent Movie Day on September 29!

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THE SAPHEAD (1920)—Buster Keaton's First Feature
THE GARAGE marks the end of an era as the final short Roscoe Arbuckle and Buster Keaton made together before Buster moved on to a comedy series of his own and Arbuckle starred in feature tilms tor Paramount.

Follow along as I work my way through Keaton's short comedies, with a new review every day through Silent Movie Day on September 29!

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The Garage (1919)—Buster Keaton's Silent Shorts (14/33)
THE HAYSEED sends the Comique gang into small-town life for another round of romance, crime and increasingly elaborate slapstick as we draw near to the end of Buster’s time with Arbuckle.

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THE HAYSEED (1919)—Buster Keaton's Silent Shorts (13/33)
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  • Tram Ride Through Rochdale, 1905
    I love seeing all the adds on the trams. Wonder what exactly Dean Chemist’s promise of “Teeth Carefully Extracted” actually looked like in 1905.
  • A Will That Conquers, 1919 - ★★½
    The final chase has plenty of action, but the buildup to get there is dreadfully slow, with the title cards required to do way too […]
  • Miss Ledyia, 1916
    Definitely an amateur production that’s oldly paced.
  • Barcelona by Tram, 1908
    Watched on Sunday October 4, 2026.
  • The Humming Bird, 1924 - ★★★
    With a decent chunk of footage missing, the plot is never hazy but we do miss out on seeing characters develop and change in real […]

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