Shawn Hall Most cinephiles know John Ford from his later classics like The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance...
Series
Special blog series ranging from discovering European Silent Cinema to chartering the development of filmmaking in the state of Utah.
At the very first Academy Awards, two separate honors were given for Best Film of the...
After gaining some attention playing supporting characters in the late 1910s, Lon Chaney reached star status,...
Few films have shaped cinema quite like Metropolis. Despite missing over 30 minutes of footage for...
Long before this summer’s recent slew of double-trouble films from Sinners to The Alto Knights, actors...
Buster Keaton made what is still considered the most expensive shot in all of silent film...
While Underworld wasn’t the first gangster film (earlier films like D.W. Griffith’s The Musketeers of Pig...
What’s the greatest silent film ever made? Or even the Top 100 Silent Movies? <span style="box-sizing:...
To deepen my knowledge of the silent era on the European continent, I created the...
Last year I enjoyed reading Zane Grey’s most influential and frequently adapted for the screen Western...
