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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

Hell's Angels (opens criterion.com in a new tab)

Criterion release featuring essay on Hughes' epic war film and revolutionary aviation sequences.

Criterion Collection

On Hell's Angels

Home Movies: By the Bluest of Seas (opens filmcomment.com in a new tab)

Essay on Barnet's joyful romance combining Soviet realism with musical theater elements.

Film Comment

On By the Bluest of Seas

MoMA | G. W. Pabst's Westfront 1918 — Museum of Modern Art (opens moma.org in a new tab)

Analysis of Pabst's effective realism and brilliant use of sound in this anti-war film.

On Westfront 1918

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

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) | The Definitives (opens deepfocusreview.com in a new tab)

Comprehensive critical analysis of Wiene's German Expressionist horror masterpiece and its cultural significance.

Deep Focus Review

On The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

My Man Godfrey: The Right Kind of People (opens criterion.com in a new tab)

Criterion essay on La Cava's screwball comedy and its Depression-era commentary on class.

Criterion Collection

On My Man Godfrey

City Lights (1931) | The Definitives (opens deepfocusreview.com in a new tab)

Critical essay on Chaplin's final silent film and its combination of comedy and profound emotion.

Deep Focus Review

On City Lights

The man who came to buttle (opens rogerebert.com in a new tab)

Ebert's great movies essay celebrating this quintessential 1930s screwball comedy.

Roger Ebert

On My Man Godfrey

The Aquatic Allure of The Kingdom of Fairies (opens trettleman.medium.com in a new tab)

Scholarly essay examining the film's visual composition and theatrical influences on cinema.

Medium

On The Kingdom of the Fairies

City Lights movie review & film summary (opens rogerebert.com in a new tab)

Ebert's essay on Chaplin's masterpiece and its lyrical romanticism and defiance of sound cinema.

Roger Ebert Great Movies

On City Lights

Ozu's Space Adventures: Editing in PASSING FANCY (opens criterionchannel.com in a new tab)

Essay examining Ozu's distinctive editing and compositional techniques in this family comedy.

The Criterion Channel

On Passing Fancy

Beginner's Guide to Alfred Hitchcock: Juno and the Paycock (1930) (opens talkfilmsociety.com in a new tab)

Guide to Hitchcock's adaptation of Sean O'Casey's play and his frustrations with theatrical material.

Talk Film Society

On Juno and the Paycock

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | film by Neilan [1917] (opens britannica.com in a new tab)

Encyclopedia entry on Pickford's adaptation of the popular novel featuring screenwriter Frances Marion.

Britannica

On Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

film essay for Foolish Wives — Library of Congress (opens loc.gov in a new tab)

Library of Congress essay on Stroheim's million-dollar Monte Carlo con artist drama and Gothic sensibility.

On Foolish Wives

Early Silents: The Great Train Robbery and The Lonedale Operator (opens ptsnob.com in a new tab)

Comparative analysis of narrative editing innovation in early American cinema.

PT Snob

On The Lonedale Operator

Notre-Dame de Paris/The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1911) (opens markdavidwelsh.wordpress.com in a new tab)

Critical review of Capellani's film d'art adaptation and its faithfulness to the source.

Mark David Welsh

On The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Cameraman's Revenge (1912): The Truly Weird Origin of Modern Stop-Motion Animation (opens openculture.com in a new tab)

Essay on Starewicz's revolutionary use of articulated insects in stop-motion animation.

Open Culture

On The Cameraman's Revenge

Inside Thomas Edison's FRANKENSTEIN Adaptation (opens filminquiry.com in a new tab)

Critical analysis of Edison's adaptation and its approach to Shelley's novel.

Film Inquiry

On Frankenstein

Love and Death in Hollywood: Desertion and Redemption in Film Adaptations of A Farewell to Arms — Literature Film Quarterly (opens lfq.salisbury.edu in a new tab)

Academic essay analyzing themes of desertion and redemption across film adaptations of Hemingway's novel.

On A Farewell to Arms

A Page of Madness - San Francisco Silent Film Festival (opens silentfilm.org in a new tab)

Festival documentation of Kinugasa's pioneering avant-garde masterpiece.

On A Page of Madness

Morocco (opens criterion.com in a new tab)

Criterion release with essay on Sternberg's direction of Dietrich in her triumphant American debut.

Criterion Collection

On Morocco

The Very First Film Adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a Thomas Edison Production (1910) (opens openculture.com in a new tab)

Historical essay on the first cinema adaptation of Frankenstein and its departure from the source material.

Open Culture

On Frankenstein

Thoughts On: 'The Musketeers of Pig Alley' (1912) (opens silentology.wordpress.com in a new tab)

Critical analysis of Griffith's pioneering gangster film and its innovative cinematography.

Silent-ology

On The Musketeers of Pig Alley