Blu Ray Review: Kino Lorber releases two from Lois Weber
One of the great pioneer filmmakers of silent era cinema, Lois Weber’s work has become more readily available for our enjoyment and...
Book Review: Anita Page: A Career Chronicle and Biography
Authors Allan R. Ellenberger and Robert Murdoch Paton have released, through McFarland and Co., publishers, a book length study of one of...
BluRay Review: The Delicious Little Devil (1919)
One of the most interesting and amusing silent features to be released on blu ray by Kino Lorber, Robert Z. Leonard’s The Delicious...
Book Review: Karloff in the East
The only character Boris Karloff played on film more than once, other than Frankenstein’s monster, is Chinese detective James Lee Wong. ...
Blu Ray Review: Man With a Movie Camera (1929)
When Dziga Vertov’s Man With a Movie Camera was released as the silent era was concluding, his form-over-substance approach was wildly...
DVD Review: Harold Lloyd – One Reel Comedy Classics
As most film historians realize, there are many brilliant men and women responsible for hundreds of clever, funny comedies during the...
DVD Review: Kidnapped in New York (1915) and other short films
This collection of silent shorts is another from the personal library of archivist John Carpenter, who provides his own 16mm prints to...
DVD/Blu Ray review: Cohen restorations of Buster Keaton’s Go West and College
Buster Keaton is certainly among the most well-represented filmmakers on DVD and blu ray, with nearly all of this films readily...
DVD/Blu Ray Review: Priscilla Dean in DRIFTING and THE WHITE TIGER, directed by Tod Browning
Kino Lorber has released a great double feature of Universal dramas starring actress Priscilla Dean. Priscilla Dean stopped appearing in...
DVD/BluRay Review: OUTSIDE THE LAW (1920)
One of Kino Lorber’s best silent film releases, “Outside The Law” has everything. The film is outstanding, the music score by Anton...