Reading Room

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

film essay for 'One Week' — Library of Congress (opens loc.gov in a new tab)

Library of Congress preservation essay analyzing Keaton's innovative visual gags and kit house comedy.

On One Week

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 Parson's Widow (1920): Dreyer's humanism and humour (opens silentlondon.co.uk in a new tab)

Essay on Dreyer's Swedish comedy-drama and its exploration of human relationships and morality.

Silent London

On The Parson's Widow

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

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

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

Master of the House: In the Corner - The Criterion Collection (opens criterion.com in a new tab)

Essay examining Dreyer's visual style and domestic drama.

The Criterion Collection

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

The Haunted House (1921) (opens silverscreenings.org in a new tab)

Essay analyzing Keaton's bank robbery comedy with elaborate props and supernatural comedy elements.

Silver Screenings

On The Haunted House

Quo vadis?, Cabiria and the 'Archaeologists': Early Italian Cinema's Appropriation of Art and Archaeology (opens 19thc-artworldwide.org in a new tab)

Academic article examining the film's use of art and archaeology in Italian epic cinema.

19th C Art Worldwide

On Quo Vadis?

The Lonedale Operator (1911) - National Film Preservation Foundation (opens filmpreservation.org in a new tab)

Archive essay on Griffith's innovative editing techniques and narrative cross-cutting.

National Film Preservation Foundation

On The Lonedale Operator

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

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

The Last Days of Pompeii (1913) | Turner Classic Movies — Turner Classic Movies (opens tcm.com in a new tab)

Critical essay on the film's visual composition and depiction of ancient Roman society.

On The Last Days of Pompeii

MoMA | A Corner in Wheat — Museum of Modern Art (opens moma.org in a new tab)

Museum essay examining the film's innovative use of juxtaposition and social commentary.

On A Corner in Wheat

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

Festival analysis of Dupont's revolutionary mobile camera techniques.

On Variety

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

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

A Farewell to Arms: a greater film than Hemingway knew — BFI (opens bfi.org.uk in a new tab)

Critical essay examining Frank Borzage's 1932 adaptation and how it differs from Hemingway's vision.

On A Farewell to Arms