Essays, interviews, archives, and video resources on early cinema — curated reading on films, directors, and movements across the silent and early sound eras.
940 resources
Festival documentation of Kinugasa's pioneering avant-garde masterpiece.
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Festival documentation of Keaton's personal favorite and commercially successful comedy.
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Festival resource on Vidor's romantic tragedy and Gish's acclaimed performance.
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Festival resource on Garbo and Gilbert's chemistry and film legacy.
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Critical analysis of Sternberg's direction and Dietrich's iconic performance as Lola Lola.
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Essay on Ford's Will Rogers comedy and its complex legacy of humor alongside racial insensitivity.
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Festival resource on Hitchcock's directorial debut and early thematic concerns.
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Book-length study of the film's relationship to mass culture and Dietrich's star image.
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Review of this important war film that interprets and stretches the boundaries of aviation cinema.
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Scholarly examination of the film's innovative approach to extreme close-up and film form itself.
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Analysis of Hawks' direction of World War I aviation drama and Academy Award-winning story.
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Essay on Bette Davis's groundbreaking performance and the film's dark portrayal of obsession.
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Essay on Sternberg's visualizations of obsessive desire and cinematic exoticism.
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Criterion release with comprehensive essay on this greatest achievement of Chaplin's career.
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Essay on Pabst's intimate depiction of WWI trench warfare and its immediate Nazi ban.
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Critical analysis of how the film navigated Hays Code restrictions while exploring human weakness.
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Analysis of Pabst's effective realism and brilliant use of sound in this anti-war film.
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Scholarly article examining the representation of working-class labor in early cinema and its historical significance.
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Critical essay on Chaplin's final silent film and its combination of comedy and profound emotion.
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Criterion's analysis of this visually poetic Sternberg-Dietrich collaboration.
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Festival resource on one of cinema's greatest comedies.
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Essay exploring Vidor's Depression-era collective farm drama and its social commentary.
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Critical analysis of Ozu's transitional film blending silent melodrama with postwar formalism.
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Ebert's great movies essay on Sternberg's surrealist approach to historical drama.
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