Kevin Brownlow's series HOLLYWOOD pays tribute to Collins in (I think) the first episode and offers clips from a one or two of his films. The tragedy of a talent who died young (the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1917-18). You're correct. I just happened to be reading the 'Preface' today where Kevin descr...

Here's one I discovered years ago. I spent a few minutes on YouTube, looking at "Up The Ladder" (1925) , a favorite romantic drama starring Virginia Valli. I had only found it without sound in the past and was hoping to find a copy with music. You've probably never seen this gem. There are several c...

Seemed an appropriate time to also have a gander at 1924's The City Without Jews ( Die Stadt ohne Juden ), and I was floored by it. Though only a year beyond The Jew of Mestri it's a much more polished production although about a thousand times more chilling, particularly the shots of the exiled Je...

I cannot access this at all. When I try, it tells me, To view this content, please use one of the four browsers: Safari, Chrome, Firefox or Microsoft Edge. I clicked onto Chrome and it tells me that I must download something? But when I try, it tells me that it is already downloaded? I don't have th...

Having watched "Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth" recently, it's clear Jacquiline Stewart wasn't familiar with the film's real story before it aired. It's a good film with a modern 'westernized' story. The music I used wasn't Oriental, but it seemed to mostly match what was seen on the screen. It f...

Today, I finally had a chance to view this Japanese Silent from 1932. The 'Western' styled story was well done and I was fortunate the music (supplied by me) helped support this film. It was broadcast without any sound? Sad. Usually, all TCM Silents have music. It would seem TCM could have found som...

Caught up with a batch of silents last week, but only time today to deal with one. DER BRENNANDE ACKER / THE BURNING FIELD (1922) is an early Murnau work, which I found a little confusing to start with (possibly due to missing footage) but which develops into a fiery melodrama. (to continue...) I w...

Caught up with a batch of silents last week, but only time today to deal with one. DER BRENNANDE ACKER / THE BURNING FIELD (1922) is an early Murnau work, which I found a little confusing to start with (possibly due to missing footage) but which develops into a fiery melodrama. (to continue...) I w...

Running a household during COVID-19, I was not able to watch as much of Cineconline as I would have liked, but what I saw I thoroughly enjoyed. https://i.imgur.com/kuaWQyD.jpg I enjoyed the film's story but am confused by what the title of the film means? We see a china vase with the words, 'Love t...

Running a household during COVID-19, I was not able to watch as much of Cineconline as I would have liked, but what I saw I thoroughly enjoyed. https://i.imgur.com/kuaWQyD.jpg I enjoyed the film's story but am confused by what the title of the film means? We see a china vase with the words, 'Love t...

During yesterday's 'Cinecon', I enjoyed watching The Tin Ghost (1926). I seldom watch Silent Comedy, but the black actor in this had a part equal to any other character in the story. I could not learn his name searching the title on IMDB and elsewhere, but for me, his performance really made the fil...

I'm a William S. Hart fan, but this might be the only 'comedy' film I've seen him in? I thought the gag about collecting the Reward Money (offered for his capture) himself was fun, but it was just the first of much too much comedy for us to enjoy this Western. My friend and I gave up and decided to ...

MAGNIFICENT FILM.... That's encouraging to hear, even if I have no plans of ever seeing this. I saw the 4 1/2 hour long version when it first appeared on TCM. Confused, I returned to it again, making a 16 page list of the things I didn't like or places the story was confusing. In the earliest part,...

A Mothering Heart (1912) A very pretty Biograph short. The middle-ending section had me on the edge, the acting was just impeccable. Lillian Gish is just my favourite, her reaction to something (i won't spoil, if you haven't seen it) near the end is just gut wrenching. Also my first ever post here,...

The Crisis (1916) is based on a novel by American novelist , Winston Churchill. I'm sure many like myself, assumed Churchill was Sir Winston, and that he had written a book about the American Civil War. Made just after "The Birth of a Nation," it had intended to profit from the other film's fame, b...

Since January, 2018, I've been meeting weekly for nearly eight hours each Thursday with someone to watch Silent and classic film, and more than a year ago, we added a second day where we watch for an additional four hours at his home. Before we met, Micheal had only seen a few Silent Films like "Win...

I'd be interested to learn how many actually enjoyed watching this film? TCM presented the premiere TV showing with Robert Israel's score many years ago now. Mr. Israel told me, even more scenes might be added to the more than four hour picture, so perhaps this is longer? I struggled for years to fi...

The Hands of Orlac (Robert Wiene, 1924) Criterion Channel. Great German Expressionism with huge rooms, huge furniture and doors, plenty of archways, heavy shadows, and extreme eye-popping. My friend and I watched this nearly two hour long film today. I had to stop and brew some coffee to make certa...

Years ago, Herr Graf (Ferdinand Von Galitzien), sent me a DVD of The City without Jews (Die Stadt ohne Juden) (1924). It had no English titles, so with the help of Ferdinand and another friend in Germany, I received English translations for the title cards which I was able to send to them as screen ...

The stuttering effect is something most casual fans won't notice. However, once you see it, you can't un-see it, especially when you compare it to a properly encoded blu-ray. Hope I never understand this issue. For my untrained eyes, the picture quality was flawless. My friend and I watched intense...

Still have a few more Lon Chaney movies in my "to watch" pile to check out, so I watched 1919's "Victory" today. I watched this via the Flicker Alley dvd. I would like to see them provide this DVD with a HD upgrade to blu (it's double featured with "The Wicked Darling"). "The Wicked Darling" (with ...

That appears to be a rip of the Kino dvd/blu release. The Eureka blu-ray is a bit better, check that out if you have the option. The Kino blu also has a weird stuttering effect not present on the Eureka version. Not certain what "weird stuttering" you are referring to? The image quality was so good...

I'm quite certain there's no one in this group that hasn't watched Nosferatu (1922) at least once, and it probably was a much nicer restoration than how I first saw the film in the 1990s. Before anyone had DVDs, before there was even a TCM Channel, I bought a 'Goodtimes' VHS copy at 'Suncoast Video'...

The Bells (1926) directed by James Young and starring Lionel Barrymore, though slow-paced and ponderous at times, contains a vivid dream sequence and an outstanding performance by Barrymore. The thoughts you see in Barrymore's eyes in his close-ups are powerful and lingered on my mind the day after...

Chapter 24 of Kevin Brownlow's book, "The Parade's Gone By..." covers both tinting and title making. There's even a still photo of Director John Emerson and wife, Anita Loos examining a set of art titles. The sheets appear to be about 11" X 17" with the titles placed in the middle of the sheet. Ther...

The Sea Hawk was pure drama and suspense, something Douglas Fairbanks was incapable of.

It's not a silly picture, but a gripping story about what happened in one man's life.

A favorite that I've seen several times over the years.

Yes, thank you for your efforts to make this available in such good quality with excellent, superimposed titles. The written letter translations and music worked well too. I know there's great, self-satisfaction in doing tasks like this. I admit finding it a bit tedious in the first 30 minutes, but ...

While some of the "comic" touches are lame and some of the acting very dated, I would hate to see any editing of Vivia Ogden's superb performance as the comically eccentric but righteously malevolent Martha Perkins. I'm 100 percent with Everson's comments in THE FILMS OF D.W. GRIFFITH concerning bo...

In Cecil B. DeMille's, Saturday Night (1922), you'll find a 'Murphy Bed' disguised as an 'Upright Piano' (46:32 into the film). It's actually part of the story because it resembles a piano. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umAorRAYRa0 I'm surprised something like this is not still being made today si...