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Essays, interviews, programme notes and archives about early cinema, from the festivals, critics and archives that publish them. Every entry opens on the publisher's own site.

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974 entries, newest first

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Movies Silently Review ★★★★★ (opens moviessilently.com in a new tab)
On West of Zanzibar
Essay
Movies Silently Review ★★★★★ (opens moviessilently.com in a new tab)
On A Trip to the Moon
Essay
Movies Silently Review ★★★★½ (opens moviessilently.com in a new tab)
On Stella Maris
Essay
Movies Silently Review ★★★★½ (opens moviessilently.com in a new tab)
On Chess Fever
Essay
Movies Silently Review ★★★★½ (opens moviessilently.com in a new tab)
On The Bargain
Essay
Movies Silently Review ★★★★½ (opens moviessilently.com in a new tab)
On Barbed Wire
Essay
Movies Silently Review ★★★★½ (opens moviessilently.com in a new tab)
On Asphalt
Website
Hark! How Harold’s Angels Sing (opens davidbordwell.net in a new tab)
David Bordwell - Observations on Film Arr
On Girl Shy
Website
Bob Dylan on Twitter (opens x.com in a new tab)
Bob knows what’s up
On The Unknown
Website
New York Times Review (1927) (opens nytimes.com in a new tab)
By Mordaunt Hall. Sept. 24, 1927
On Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Essay
Sunrise (opens rogerebert.com in a new tab)
Roger Ebert's review (2004)
On Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Essay
F. W. Murnau’s Sunrise, the 1927 Masterpiece Voted the 5th Best Movie of All Time (opens openculture.com in a new tab)
Open Culture article, with video
On Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Essay
How Georges Méliès A Trip to the Moon Became the First Sci-Fi Film & Changed Cinema Forever (1902) (opens openculture.com in a new tab)
Article from Open Culture
On A Trip to the Moon
Essay
Chromatic Aberrations: The Toll of the Sea (opens publicdomainreview.org in a new tab)
From The Public Domain Review, Hunter Dukes explores Hollywood's first natural-color feature film and the breakout role for Anna May Wong
On The Toll of the Sea

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