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
Essay on Sternberg's final Dietrich collaboration and its extreme aestheticism and pessimism.
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Critical analysis of Griffith's pioneering gangster film and its innovative cinematography.
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Essay on Ptushko's pioneering stop-motion animated feature with its Communist allegory.
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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 Barnet's joyful romance combining Soviet realism with musical theater elements.
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Festival resource on Valentino's final performance before his death.
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Overview of this Three Stooges courtroom comedy short known for anarchic slapstick.
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Essay on Ozu's last silent film and its neo-realist approach to depicting urban poverty.
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Criterion essay on La Cava's screwball comedy and its Depression-era commentary on class.
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Critical analysis of Chaplin's final Keystone production examining its dream-fantasy device and comic execution.
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Ebert's great movies essay celebrating this quintessential 1930s screwball comedy.
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Retrospective essay celebrating Dreyer's creation of atmosphere through visual innovation and technique.
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Essay on Griffith's biographical film and its portrayal of Lincoln as a humanized figure.
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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 examining Lang's two-part epic fantasy and its technical cinematography innovations.
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Critical analysis of Vidor's exploration of forbidden desires around race and sexuality in pre-Code Hawaii.
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Criterion release featuring essay on Hughes' epic war film and revolutionary aviation sequences.
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Criterion's overview of Sternberg and Dietrich's melodrama about a chanteuse's moral decline.
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Critical essay examining Frank Borzage's 1932 adaptation and how it differs from Hemingway's vision.
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Encyclopedia entry on Alice Guy-Blachê's pioneering narrative film, the first fiction film ever made.
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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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Analysis of Chaplin and Arbuckle's drunken duo comedy examining visual gags and physical performance.
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