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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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Website
Movies Silently Review (opens moviessilently.com in a new tab)
On That Certain Thing
Website
The 1930s chiller White Zombie is an experimental-horror masterpiece - Chicago Reader (opens chicagoreader.com in a new tab)
Review by Kyle Westphal
On White Zombie
Website
Review from Pre-Code.com (opens pre-code.com in a new tab)
On Half Shot at Sunrise
Website
Movies Silently Review (opens moviessilently.com in a new tab)
On Ashes of Vengeance
Website
Ideology and Reality: Society and Vsevolod Pudovkin’s Mother (1926) - Senses of Cinema (opens sensesofcinema.com in a new tab)
Cara Marisa Deleon explores the tension between the film’s progressive ideals and its deeply patriarchal treatment of its female characters
On Mother
Distributor
Flicker Alley - FUSION SERIES (BLU-RAY) (opens flickeralley.com in a new tab)
The film was restored by Blackhawk Films in 2024 from a first generation 35mm safety print and a 16mm dupe negative. It is presented with two different scores: an original piano composition by Antonio Coppola and an original orchestral score by Alloy Orchestra, recorded live in 2013.
On He Who Gets Slapped
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
Foundation
NFPF Screening Room (opens filmpreservation.org in a new tab)
This film is also availalble to view, with additional information, at the National Film Preservation Foundation's Screening Rom
On The Toll of the Sea
Foundation
NFPF Screening Room (opens filmpreservation.org in a new tab)
This film is also available through the National Film Preservation Foundation
On The Bargain
Foundation
NFPF Screening Room (opens filmpreservation.org in a new tab)
You can view this film and learn more via the Screening Room of the National Film Preservation Foundation
On The Big Show