Cinema Revisited: Beyond the Rocks (1922)
Back in 2006, Milestone Film and Video released the long elusive film Beyond The Rocks, a 1922 silent drama based on a novel by Elinor...
Cinema Revisited: Steamboat Bill Jr.
In Steamboat Bill, Jr., Buster Keaton, for his final independently produced feature, enjoyed a level of complete creative control...
Cinema Revisited: Dixie Madcaps (1918)
It isn’t uncommon to find silent comedies playing upon stereotypes for humor. Sometimes it is amusing, but mostly it is, at the very...
Cinema Revisited: The Great Dictator (1940)
Released in 1940, a “Baker’s Dozen” years after the talking-picture revolution, The Great Dictator shows silent-screen icon Charlie...
Cinema Revisited: Safety Last (1923)
The Roaring 20s are often depicted as one of carefree exuberance, economic growth, exciting jazz, and youthful go-getters. At the...
Book Review: Time is Money: The Century, Rainbow, and Stern Brothers comedies
This massive, over 500-page, study of Julius and Abe Stern delves very deeply into an area of screen comedy that is very little known....