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A Wishlist: Silent Pictures to become accessible through Blu-Ray and Streaming 116 films
Some of the titles listed are available on DVD and in standard definition streaming transfers. This list is spotlighting titles…
2024: Crowd Funded Silent PIctures to Release to Blu-Ray or Digital Download 3 films
2024: Silent Pictures Released to Blu-Ray and/or Streaming 8 films
This list will attempt to document all upcoming silent pictures intended to be made available (for the first time) on…
2023: Silent Pictures Released to Blu-Ray and/or Streaming 33 films
This list will attempt to document all upcoming silent pictures intended to be made available (for the first time) on…
2023: Crowd Funded Silent PIctures to Release to Blu-Ray or Digital Download 10 films
Silent Movie Day 2023: Participating Venues and Silent Movie Selections 80 films
We are going to keep track of the silent pictures that have been selected by venues and entities participating in…
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Feature films preserved and restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive
UCLA Film & Television Archive 529 films
8 masterpieces by David W. Griffith - November 22-26, 2023
La Cinémathèque française 8 films
Believing In Sleepy Hollow
Miskatonic_IHS 6 films
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Chicago, IL
Saturday, May 11, 2024 @ 11:30 AM / Music Box Theatre
THE SHIP OF LOST MEN
Directed by Maurice Tourneur • 1929
A Frenchman who established his directorial renown in New Jersey in 1914 when the infant industry was still working out the grammar of feature-length filmmaking, Maurice Tourneur carved out a niche for himself as a patient, painterly filmmaker with an idiosyncratic aesthetic. His methods were a poor fit for the ascendant studio system, and his short-lived…
REVENGE - VINTAGE 35MM PRINT
Rochester, NY
Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 7:30 p.m., Dryden Theatre
Edwin Carewe, US 1928, 70 min., 35mm)
Director Edwin Carewe and Mexican superstar Dolores Del Rio re-team for the sixth time in this romantic drama. Here, Del Rio plays Rascha, the wild daughter of Costa (James Marcus), the Gypsy bear tamer, who swears revenge on Jorga (LeRoy Mason), her father's enemy, when he cuts off her braids. When Jorga realizes that he may actually love…
PARIS
March 17, 2024
𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚
Chaired by Costa Gavras, the 11th edition of the Cinémathèque française archive film festival features newly restored films from all over the world.
This very special premiere restoration screening of A halál után (After Death) will be held at 14:00 on Sunday 17 March at Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé with live piano accompaniment from Matthieu Lecoq and will be introduced by NFI’s director György Ráduly and representatives of the partner archives.
One of the…
The Sea Hawk (1924)
Thu, Apr 11, 2024, 8:15 PM
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, SFSFF 2024
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Milton Sills, Wallace Beery, Enid Bennett, Lloyd Hughes
Abducted by a band of brigands at the behest of his craven younger brother, Sir Oliver is soon lashed to the oars as a galley slave. But destiny has greater things in store. This big-budget, high-seas epic about an English baronet’s transformation into notorious corsair Sakr-el-Bahr, Scourge of Christendom, is based…
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Reginald Denny: the most charming, likable, and funny actor that you need to watch more of!
I’d been wanting to see the silent version of this for a long time, and boy did it not disappoint. The underrated Helen Foster learns that strip poker leads to pregnancy, abortions, and… well, I won’t give away final big twists, other than my jaw hurts from hitting the floor so hard. This is honestly pretty good, and a nice demonstration of how in the late silent era, even a low-rent operation could put together a very nicely photographed and staged, compelling effort.
Sheriff Lee Shumway, the best friend of Tom Mix, is murdered. Tom adopts the Sheriff’s orphaned son, and they become great pals. Tom tracks down the killers who are also the robbers plaguing the local stage line. The father of his sweetheart, Carmelita Geraghty, holds the contract to operate the stage. Tom saves the contract by winning the stage coach race that will decide the contractee.
A typical Tom Mix western includes lots of Mix in action, some comic interplay with the child and with Carmelita Geraghty, and a touch of sentimentality.
The Draw of Box-Office Returns: Hart’s Hinged History More Heaven Than Hell
I’ve been hankering to see this William S. Hart vehicle, “The Return of Draw Egan,” for some time now. I’ve wanted to see this title in particular because of, well, the title. It’s a great title. It’s as if the picture is so big it requires something that sounds like a sequel even though it isn’t one and as if the character of Draw Egan is of such…