Three Bill Murray movies – all premieres – on TCM, including the crime comedy-drama Mad Dog and Glory and Jim Jarmusch’s Cannes Grand Prix winner Broken Flowers.
Clara Bow movies on TCM: Turner Classic Movies will be airing two titles starring one of Hollywood’s biggest stars of the late 1920s: Wings and Call Her Savage.
National Silent Movie Day: TCM will be presenting four features released a century ago, including Erich von Stroheim’s Greed and the premiere of The Enchanted Cottage.
John Gilbert movies: TCM’s ‘Summer Under the Stars’ series will present 13 titles showcasing the silent era’s superstar and the talkie era’s most tragic casualty.
Anita Page movies: TCM’s ‘Summer Under the Stars’ series will present 15 titles featuring the blonde and pretty MGM actress of the late silent era.
Remembering movie comedy pioneer Al Christie and several Vitagraph Studios comedians – including John Bunny and Larry Semon – whose shorts are included in a new Kino Classics DVD set.
San Francisco Silent Film Festival (SFSFF) titles include Erich von Stroheim’s blockbuster silent ‘operetta’ The Merry Widow. Mae Murray and John Gilbert star.
San Francisco Silent Film Festival (SFSFF) titles include the rare Ukrainian satire Pigs Will Be Pigs (banned in Nazi Germany) and Yasujiro Ozu’s homage to Hollywood gangster movies, Walk Cheerfully.
San Francisco Silent Film Festival (SFSFF) titles include two super-rarities – Padlocked and Flowing Gold – the former starring F. Scott Fitzgerald’s muse Lois Moran.
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival (SFSFF) will showcase Hollywood and international rarities, plus well-known silent era classics. Featured stars include Norma Shearer and Douglas Fairbanks.
The first women filmmakers are the topic of Anthony Slide’s book The Silent Feminists. In a Q&A with Alt Film Guide, the author and film historian discusses Weber, Arzner et …
Alice Guy Blaché: The world’s first woman director is remembered in this Q&A with film historian Anthony Slide, who also discusses the republication of her book of memoirs.
Legendary Broadway actor John Barrymore also enjoyed an impressive and enduring – yet vastly undervalued – movie career in the 1920s and 1930s.
Lillian Gish Bowling Green University Theatre gone: The outraged ones vs iconic actress seen in D.W. Griffith’s landmark (racist) epic The Birth of a Nation.
Movies: Is that a horrible word that diminishes the art form? Many in film industry thought so with debates about how to make moving pictures respectable.