Posted by member L.A. at criterionforum.org: Nasjonalbiblioteket (National Library) in Norway will release Blu-ray called Stumme filmspor in September. The films on the disc are from 1910s. Stumme filmspor, the collection of silent films, will have English subtitles (as well as a booklet with newly...

My pick would have to be THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE as well, a film I’ve recommended to “non-silent film people” more than any other. It seems to have success in that way; the emotion comes right through despite the century of distance. The other film that comes to mind is Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand’...

Thanks for the heads up. I was aware the book had some falsities, but did not know the extent of it!

In his book Hollywood Babylon, Kenneth Anger claims that silent film actor Milton Sills committed suicide by driving his last limousine off of Dead Man's Curve on Sunset Boulevard. However all other sources that I can find say that he died of a heart attack while playing tennis. Does anyone know the...

There are very few movies that have made me cry, but I re-watched CITY FOR CONQUEST with James Cagney last night and was as moved by it as the first time I saw it. I know it's pretty heavy on the melodrama, but for some reason it really hits me hard. When the nearly blind Cagney listens to his broth...