By Unknown Thursday, June 28, 2012 '1920s 1928 classic Hollywood Josef von Sternberg silent film The Last Command The Last Command is a remarkably clever and poignant Hollywood story, a moving tale of war, doomed love, and the ways in which Hollywood...
By Unknown Monday, June 25, 2012 '1970s 1978 Claude Chabrol French cinema Violette Claude Chabrol's Violette is a fascinating, ambiguous study of a young woman who might be a sociopath, a victim, or both. Based on the r...
By Unknown Thursday, June 21, 2012 '1910s 1917 classic Hollywood John Ford silent film Westerns Straight Shooting Straight Shooting was John Ford's first feature, and that's the primary reason this straightforward, even prosaic Western is still w...
By Unknown Monday, June 18, 2012 '1970s 1971 French cinema horror films Jean Rollin The Shiver of the Vampires Jean Rollin's The Shiver of the Vampires is a wonderfully strange, clever piece of B-movie trash/art, a film that revels in its nakedly ...
By Unknown Thursday, June 14, 2012 '1920s 1926 Buster Keaton silent film Battling Butler Battling Butler follows a familiar template for many of Buster Keaton's features, with Keaton's character starting out inept and gra...
By Unknown Thursday, June 7, 2012 '1930s 1932 Carl Theodor Dreyer Scandanavian cinema Vampyr Vampyr was Carl Theodor Dreyer's first sound film, a hypnotic and dreamlike horror movie, a chilling masterpiece whose hazy, fuzzy beaut...
By Unknown Monday, June 4, 2012 '1960s 1967 French cinema Jacques Demy musicals The Young Girls of Rochefort Jacques Demy followed up his musical masterpiece The Umbrellas of Cherbourg with a second Catherine Deneuve musical, The Young Girls of Roch...
By Unknown Friday, June 1, 2012 '1950s avant-garde film Image in the Snow/The Plague Summer/The Voices Image in the Snow is Willard Maas' moody, densely symbolic examination of a young man's journey through an increasingly grim and dil...