Silent Movie  

  • treaures3 Treasures III / Discovering Cinema

    Nov 07, 2007

    Two early cinema collections offer the endless fascination of seeing how real people lived four generations ago.

  • Battleship Potemkin Battleship Potemkin

    Oct 31, 2007

    The new DVD version of Sergei Eisenstein's revolutionary classic comes closer than ever to realizing his original vision.

  • guy maddin Guy Maddin

    May 17, 2007

    The inventive, backward-looking filmmaker talks about the unusual way he's exhibiting his unusual new film.

  • Brand Upon The Brain Brand Upon The Brain!

    May 10, 2007

    Guy Maddin's demented silent film will hit a few lucky cities with a live orchestra, Foley effects, and a celebrity narrator. But does it hold up without them?

  • un chant damour Un Chant D'Amour

    Mar 28, 2007

    Jean Genet's silent, impressionistic 20-minute short was a scandal in 1950, and it hasn't lost any impact today.

  • Robeson1 2 Paul Robeson: Portraits Of The Artist

    Mar 07, 2007

    A new anthology posits Paul Robeson as perhaps the most important African-American entertainer of the 20th century.