Josef von Sternberg's debut film, The Salvation Hunters, immediately gained him a reputation as a filmmaker worth watching and catapulte...
Showing posts with label 1925. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1925. Show all posts
Lightnin'
John Ford's Lightnin' is a modest, low-key little silent comedy that concentrates entirely on the folksy humor that often populates ...
Tartuffe
F.W. Murnau followed the daring, innovative masterpiece The Last Laugh with a much more modest, smaller-scale, but still interesting feature...
Go West (1925)
Go West is one of Buster Keaton's more low-key films, but also one of his strangest, focusing on a gently sentimental romance between a ...
La fille de l'eau
La fille de l'eau was Jean Renoir's first feature, the melodramatic story of young Gudule (Renoir's then-wife Catherine Hessling...
The Pleasure Garden
[This post is an early contribution to the third annual For the Love of Film blogathon and fundraiser, which will be officially running from...
Seven Chances
Seven Chances was, unlike his previous features, not a project of Buster Keaton's own choosing. It was selected by producer Joseph M. Sc...
The Gold Rush
There's a reason Charles Chaplin's The Gold Rush is still such an enduring comedic masterwork, almost 90 years after it was made. It...