silent film
We started the day with Poe, let's end the day the same, with this wild 1928 version of The Fall of the House of Usher, from a live performance in.
In the "Let's Make a Sandwich" thread the other day, someone brought up Dream of a Rarebit Fiend, the absolutely bonkers 1906 film about someone who eats too much Welsh.
This is the grave of Hal Roach. Born in 1892 in Elmira, New York, he traveled around as a young man and ended up in Hollywood in 1912. He got.
In tonight's film, we have Stan Laurel wearing a metric ton of makeup (which he did in all his early films)! A setting in the Arab world! The British Army!.
So this is a terrible day. But here is an essay on the annual event to try and identify old films that exist in pieces and it's pretty dang cool.
What's a Wednesday evening without a bad slapstick anti-German comedy from 1918 that features Stan Laurel in a supporting part?
I am really excited to watch the 1920 film The Daughter of Dawn, once thought lost (like about 85 percent of silent films) and now found. The Daughter of Dawn.
Someone needs to make a dark, shadowy film with angular shots about this heinous crime, no doubt perpetrated by a mastermind criminal. Today, the story of Murnau’s death gets a.