Reading Room

The Cat and the Canary (opens silentfilm.org in a new tab)

By Margarita LandazuriSan Francisco Silent Film Festival9 Jan 2020

On The Cat and the Canary

Aelita Queen of Mars (opens silentfilm.org in a new tab)

By Richard HildrethSan Francisco Silent Film Festival8 Jan 2020

Alice in Disneyland (opens silentfilm.org in a new tab)

By Miriam BaleSan Francisco Silent Film Festival8 Jan 2020

All Quiet on the Western Front (opens silentfilm.org in a new tab)

By David ThomsonSan Francisco Silent Film Festival8 Jan 2020

The Amazing Charley Bowers (opens silentfilm.org in a new tab)

By Sean AxmakerSan Francisco Silent Film Festival8 Jan 2020

Amazing Tales from the Archives 2014 (opens silentfilm.org in a new tab)

By SFSFF editorSan Francisco Silent Film Festival8 Jan 2020

Amazing Tales from the Archives 2016 (opens silentfilm.org in a new tab)

By SFSFF editorSan Francisco Silent Film Festival8 Jan 2020

Amazing Tales from the Archives 2017 (opens silentfilm.org in a new tab)

By SFSFF editorSan Francisco Silent Film Festival8 Jan 2020

Amazing Tales from the Archives 2018 (opens silentfilm.org in a new tab)

By SFSFF editorSan Francisco Silent Film Festival8 Jan 2020

The Adventures of Prince Achmed (opens silentfilm.org in a new tab)

By Shari KizirianSan Francisco Silent Film Festival19 Nov 2019

On The Adventures of Prince Achmed

Bardelys the Magnificent (opens silentfilm.org in a new tab)

By Roberto LandazuriSan Francisco Silent Film Festival19 Nov 2019

Charlie the Ringmaster (opens criterion.com in a new tab)

Steve Massa on Chaplin's collaborators and production company during the making of The Circus (1928).

By Steve MassaThe Criterion Collection3 Oct 2019

Amazing Tales from the Archives 2019 (opens silentfilm.org in a new tab)

By SFSFF editorSan Francisco Silent Film Festival8 Jan 2019

The Birth of a Hollywood Bad Girl (opens criterion.com in a new tab)

9 Aug 2018

On Morocco, Shanghai Express and 3 more

10 great German expressionist films (opens bfi.org.uk in a new tab)

From The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to Nosferatu, the trend for shadows, angst and exaggerated sets in 1920s German cinema laid the foundations for everything from film noir to the horror genre.

By Pamela Hutchinson, Alex BarrettBFI8 Jun 2017

Where to begin with F.W. Murnau (opens bfi.org.uk in a new tab)

A beginner’s path through the sublime silent cinema of F.W. Murnau…

By Ben Nicholson21 Dec 2016

On F. W. Murnau

Amazing Tales from the Archives 2015 (opens silentfilm.org in a new tab)

By SFSFF editorSan Francisco Silent Film Festival15 May 2015

Amazing Tales from the Archives 2013 (opens silentfilm.org in a new tab)

By SFSFF editorSan Francisco Silent Film Festival15 May 2013

Restoring Hitchcock #1: how a film restoration begins (opens bfi.org.uk in a new tab)

Bryony Dixon on how the BFI began restoring Hitchcock's nine surviving silent features.

By Bryony DixonBFI9 Aug 2012

Amazing Tales from the Archives 2008 (opens silentfilm.org in a new tab)

By Robert ByrneSan Francisco Silent Film Festival8 Jan 2008

Chaplin, Charles (opens sensesofcinema.com in a new tab)

Senses of Cinema Great Directors profile of Charlie Chaplin from Keystone through City Lights.

Senses of Cinema1 Jan 2008

Amazing Tales from the Archives 2007 (opens silentfilm.org in a new tab)

By Shari KizirianSan Francisco Silent Film Festival8 Jan 2007

Erich von Stroheim's Damned Queen: Queen Kelly (opens sensesofcinema.com in a new tab)

CTEQ annotation on Stroheim's unfinished Queen Kelly and the coming of sound.

Senses of Cinema1 Jan 2007