Reading Room

The Pleasure Garden (1925, Alfred Hitchcock) (opens ianfarrington.wordpress.com in a new tab)

Analysis of voyeurism and sexuality in Hitchcock's debut feature.

Ian Farrington

On The Pleasure Garden

The Unholy Three (opens britannica.com in a new tab)

Encyclopedia entry on Browning and Chaney's crime melodrama.

Britannica

On The Unholy Three

Modern Matinees: A Tale of Two Stellas (opens moma.org in a new tab)

Comparison of the 1925 and 1937 versions examining evolution of the maternal melodrama.

MoMA

On Stella Dallas

Master of the House - San Francisco Silent Film Festival (opens silentfilm.org in a new tab)

Festival documentation of Dreyer's complex narrative innovation.

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

Festival resource on Eisenstein's experimental approach to narrative and montage editing.

On Strike

Film review – Variété (Ewald André Dupont, 1925) (opens cinemaetc.co.uk in a new tab)

Analysis of Dupont's groundbreaking cinematography and visual storytelling.

Cinema, etc.

On Variety

By the Law (Web Exclusive) (opens cineaste.com in a new tab)

Critical analysis of Kuleshov's chamber film and the Kuleshov Effect in practice.

Cineaste Magazine

On By the Law

BY THE LAW (Lev Kuleshov, 1926) (opens grunes.wordpress.com in a new tab)

Essay on Kuleshov's innovative approach to tension and minimal resources.

Dennis Grunes

On By the Law

'By The Law' or — Yukon Ho! (opens colinedwards.medium.com in a new tab)

Analysis of the film's narrative economy and visual storytelling.

Medium

On By the Law

F.W. Murnau's Faust - Public Domain Review (opens publicdomainreview.org in a new tab)

Analysis of the film's technical innovation and artistic achievement.

Public Domain Review

On Faust

Faust (1926) - A landscape of nightmares (opens rogerebert.com in a new tab)

Critical analysis of Murnau's visual mastery and expressionist horror aesthetics.

Roger Ebert

On Faust

Flesh and the Devil - UCLA Library (opens library.ucla.edu in a new tab)

Library exhibition notes on the film's artistic and romantic elements.

UCLA Library

On Flesh and the Devil

ithankyou: The Lillian Gish method… La Bohème (1926) (opens ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com in a new tab)

Analysis of Gish's transformative acting technique and the film's emotional power.

ithankyou

On La Bohème

Thoughts On: Menilmontant (1926) (opens silentology.wordpress.com in a new tab)

Essay on the film's French Impressionist approach to visual cinema.

Silent-ology

On Ménilmontant

Menilmontant – 1926, Dimitri Kirsanov (opens wondersinthedark.wordpress.com in a new tab)

Critical appreciation of Kirsanov's avant-garde masterpiece.

Wonders in the Dark

On Ménilmontant

The Squaw Man | film by DeMille [1914] (opens britannica.com in a new tab)

Encyclopedia entry detailing the historical significance of the first feature-length film shot in Hollywood.

Britannica

On The Squaw Man

Sir Arne's Treasure (1919) film review (opens silentfilm.org in a new tab)

Analysis of Mauritz Stiller's use of landscape and nature in this Swedish crime-drama masterpiece.

Silent Film

On Sir Arne's Treasure

7th Heaven (1927) and Street Angel (1928): two silent films by Frank Borzage — World Socialist Web Site (opens wsws.org in a new tab)

Critical analysis of Borzage's romantic aesthetic and sentimentality.

On 7th Heaven

A Phenomenal Film of Foibles: On F.W. Murnau's Tartuffe (opens trettleman.medium.com in a new tab)

Essay on Murnau's comedic adaptation and chamber drama approach.

Medium

On Tartuffe

The Bat (1926) (opens undercrankproductions.com in a new tab)

Analysis of West's visual style and the film's gothic atmosphere.

Undercrank Productions

On The Bat

The Bat (1926) (opens ink19.com in a new tab)

Review of West's old dark house mystery and visual storytelling.

Ink 19

On The Bat

The Black Pirate (opens rottentomatoes.com in a new tab)

Critical consensus on the film's enduring appeal and technical achievement.

Rotten Tomatoes

On The Black Pirate

Lotte Reiniger and The Adventures of Prince Achmed (opens mediamajlis.northwestern.edu in a new tab)

Academic analysis of Reiniger's pioneering silhouette animation technique.

Media Majlis (Northwestern University)

On The Adventures of Prince Achmed

The Symmetry of Buster Keaton's The General (opens trettleman.medium.com in a new tab)

Analysis of the film's compositional balance and artistic design.

Medium

On The General