The Four-Disc set of Irreverent Women-Driven Silents is Available on Blu-ray from Kino
BLU-RAY STREET DATE: DECEMBER 20, 2022/KINO CLASSICS
“The past mat...
This time, our reviewers were hard at work, tackling films from 1911-1920. Short films continued to be made available to the public but some of the films became quite longer. Film editing was more creatively employed in storytelling on film.
Here we have an Italian visual effects-driven cat-and-mouse caper film that hinges on a female antihero pulling one over on a highly respected and famously successful male master detective. Filibus outwits the tests of time at every twist.
For all of the grandeur, detail, and enormity of 1482 Paris depicted in this prestigious undertaking, this is, first and last, Lon Chaney’s show. It’s his presence and his 110-percent devotion to portraying Quasimodo that fuels this version of Hunchback to culturally persist when so many subsequent adaptations have been forgotten.
John Ford’s Debut Feature Reloads Western Legend Harry Carey
DIRECTED BY JOHN FORD (AS “JACK FORD”)/1917
BLU-RAY STREET DATE: JULY 14, 2020/KL STUDIO CLA...
Another Look At a Nearly Forgotten Early Film Auteur.
BLU-RAY STREET DATE APRIL 20,2021 / KINO LORBER STUDIO CLASSICS
There's no way to encapsulate t...
A Short Film of Social Justice From D.W. Griffith
DIRECTED BY D.W. GRIFFITH/1909
I have recently been championing film studies/universities to focus more...
