Reading Room

The Operatics of Cabiria (1914): Intermediality in Early Italian Cinema — Oxford Academic (opens digitalcommons.bucknell.edu in a new tab)

Scholarly article examining the film's intermedial relationships with opera, literature, and painting.

On Cabiria

Beginner's Guide to Alfred Hitchcock: Murder! (1930) (opens talkfilmsociety.com in a new tab)

Guide to Hitchcock's exploration of theatrical spaces and wrongful accusation themes.

Talk Film Society

On Murder!

The psychological horror of Dreyer's Vampyr — BFI Sight & Sound (opens bfi.org.uk in a new tab)

Essay on Dreyer's dreamlike approach to horror and psychological terror in his first sound film.

On Vampyr

The Son of the Sheik - San Francisco Silent Film Festival (opens silentfilm.org in a new tab)

Festival resource on Valentino's final performance before his death.

On The Son of the Sheik

Now and Forever 1934 review-how to weaponize cuteness (opens cornerstorecinema.net in a new tab)

Essay on how the film uses Shirley Temple's innocence as counterpoint to adult corruption and crime.

Corner Store Cinema

On Now and Forever

WEEK 11: Murder! (1930) (opens weeklyhitch.wordpress.com in a new tab)

Analysis of Hitchcock's innovative use of voice-over and sound design in this early talkie.

Weekly Hitch

On Murder!

The Avenging Conscience (1914) | and you call yourself a scientist!? — Film Criticism Blog (opens andyoucallyourselfascientist.com in a new tab)

Deep analysis of Griffith's horror masterpiece featuring innovative use of cutaways and Poe's literary influence on cinema.

On The Avenging Conscience

Sublime Tragicomedy: I Was Born, But… (1932) — Establishing Shot (opens blogs.iu.edu in a new tab)

Essay analyzing Ozu's blend of comedy and social critique in his exploration of class and family.

On I Was Born, But...

The New Janitor (24 September 1914) (opens chaplinfilmbyfilm.wordpress.com in a new tab)

Analysis examining Chaplin's narrative progression and emotional depth in this bank janitor comedy.

Chaplin: Film by Film

On The New Janitor

The height of visual extravagance (opens rogerebert.com in a new tab)

Ebert's great movies essay on Sternberg's surrealist approach to historical drama.

Roger Ebert

On The Scarlet Empress

The Strong Man - San Francisco Silent Film Festival (opens silentfilm.org in a new tab)

Festival documentation of Capra and Langdon's comedic masterpiece.

On The Strong Man

Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness (opens silentfilm.org in a new tab)

Festival guide to Cooper and Schoedsack's jungle documentary-drama.

San Francisco Silent Film Festival

On Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness

My Best Girl (opens silentfilm.org in a new tab)

Festival guide to Pickford's department store romance.

San Francisco Silent Film Festival

On My Best Girl

An Inn in Tokyo – 1935, Yasujiro Ozu (opens wondersinthedark.wordpress.com in a new tab)

Essay on Ozu's last silent film and its neo-realist approach to depicting urban poverty.

Wonders in the Dark

On An Inn in Tokyo

The Blue Angel (1930) | The Definitives (opens deepfocusreview.com in a new tab)

Critical analysis of Sternberg's direction and Dietrich's iconic performance as Lola Lola.

Deep Focus Review

On The Blue Angel

AN INN IN TOKYO (Yasujiro Ozu, 1935) (opens grunes.wordpress.com in a new tab)

Critical analysis of Ozu's transitional film blending silent melodrama with postwar formalism.

Dennis Grunes

On An Inn in Tokyo

Twenty Minutes of Love (1914) (opens mubi.com in a new tab)

Film database entry with critical context on Chaplin's first directorial effort and creative control negotiations.

MUBI

On Twenty Minutes of Love

Minding the Gaps: 'The Devil Is a Woman' (1935) (opens thereveal.substack.com in a new tab)

Essay on Sternberg's final Dietrich collaboration and its extreme aestheticism and pessimism.

The Reveal

On The Devil Is a Woman

A Trip to the Moon | Spectacular Attractions — Spectacular Attractions (opens drnorth.wordpress.com in a new tab)

Scholarly essay examining the film's theatrical traditions and special effects innovations.

On A Trip to the Moon

The New Gulliver (opens neweastcinema.pitt.edu in a new tab)

Essay on Ptushko's pioneering stop-motion animated feature with its Communist allegory.

New East Cinema Symposium

On The New Gulliver

OF HUMAN BONDAGE (1934) (opens oforinvolvingmotionpictures.wordpress.com in a new tab)

Critical analysis of how the film navigated Hays Code restrictions while exploring human weakness.

Of or Involving Motion Pictures

On Of Human Bondage

A Cinema History: Life of an American Fireman (1903) (opens acinemahistory.com in a new tab)

Historical analysis of the film's significance in developing narrative cinema techniques.

A Cinema History

On Life of an American Fireman

The Dawn Patrol (1930) - Movie Review (opens alternateending.com in a new tab)

Review of this important war film that interprets and stretches the boundaries of aviation cinema.

Alternate Ending

On The Dawn Patrol

DISORDER IN THE COURT (1936) -- ThreeStooges.net (opens threestooges.net in a new tab)

Overview of this Three Stooges courtroom comedy short known for anarchic slapstick.

ThreeStooges.net

On Disorder in the Court