Essays, interviews, archives, and video resources on early cinema — curated reading on films, directors, and movements across the silent and early sound eras.
942 resources
Review of this important war film that interprets and stretches the boundaries of aviation cinema.
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Critical essay on Chaplin's early comic performance and character development.
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Critical analysis of Griffith's pioneering gangster film and its innovative cinematography.
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Historical examination of the film's creation of the gangster film genre.
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Analysis of Hawks' direction of World War I aviation drama and Academy Award-winning story.
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Criterion's overview of Sternberg and Dietrich's melodrama about a chanteuse's moral decline.
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Criterion release featuring essay on Hughes' epic war film and revolutionary aviation sequences.
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Festival resource on Valentino's final performance before his death.
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Criterion release with essay on Pabst's pacifist war film and its innovative sound design.
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Essay analyzing Griffith's intimate drama and Lillian Gish's performance of elemental emotional truth.
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Critical essay examining Frank Borzage's 1932 adaptation and how it differs from Hemingway's vision.
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Comprehensive analysis of Chaplin's dentist's assistant comedy featuring anesthesia-gone-wrong humor and violence.
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Essay on Pabst's intimate depiction of WWI trench warfare and its immediate Nazi ban.
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Guide to Hitchcock's adaptation of Sean O'Casey's play and his frustrations with theatrical material.
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Festival documentation of Capra and Langdon's comedic masterpiece.
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Festival guide to Cooper and Schoedsack's jungle documentary-drama.
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Festival guide to Pickford's department store romance.
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Essay on this early John Wayne western and its themes of child abuse within a morality play tradition.
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Essay on Ozu's last silent film and its neo-realist approach to depicting urban poverty.
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Analysis of Chaplin and Arbuckle's drunken duo comedy examining visual gags and physical performance.
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Academic essay analyzing themes of desertion and redemption across film adaptations of Hemingway's novel.
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Critical essay on Chaplin's final silent film and its combination of comedy and profound emotion.
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Critical examination of legends surrounding the film and analysis of its composition and reception.
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Essay on Sternberg's final Dietrich collaboration and its extreme aestheticism and pessimism.
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