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Movies Silently Review (opens moviessilently.com in a new tab)

On That Certain Thing

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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

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Review from Pre-Code.com (opens pre-code.com in a new tab)

On Half Shot at Sunrise

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Movies Silently Review (opens moviessilently.com in a new tab)

On Ashes of Vengeance

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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

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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

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Hark! How Harold’s Angels Sing (opens davidbordwell.net in a new tab)

David Bordwell - Observations on Film Arr

On Girl Shy

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Bob Dylan on Twitter (opens x.com in a new tab)

Bob knows what’s up

On The Unknown

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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