Here's a piece I wrote about the Oakland screening of Napoleon, featuring hard to find clips from the picture. An amazing experience, and the clips alone are worth the price of admission. Anyone else get to oakland?

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Here's a piece I wrote for LA Review of Books on the special pleasures of silent films, using hard to find clips from Abel Gance's Napoleon, called Dueling Revolutions. I'm curious to see what you folks make of it. (I wrote a piece on Chaplin that sparked some discussion here a few months ago). http...