1986. Reagan was president, Donald Trump was still a real estate developer, and I had the good luck to attend a lecture by renowned silent film producer [...]

How do I talk about King of Jazz without saying: wow…I mean WOW! It’s a very unique movie, filmed at the very beginning of the sound era, but [...]

    A prevalent cultural stereotype (perhaps less so now than a generation ago) is that since Germanic people have a limited sense of humor, they [...]

If it may please the court: The Case of Dark Passage, a 1947 crime drama, directed by Delmer Daves, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. It was the [...]

  The effects of variable ring placement on audience perception of character predictability A scientific paper by Lokke Heiss   ABSTRACT The presence [...]

  One of the highlights of last fall’s silent film festival in Pordenone, Italy was the premier of Orson Welles’s ‘lost’ 1938 film, ‘Too Much Johnson.’ A [...]

Roger and Me: An Almost Perfect London Walk   Roger Ebert’s death on April 4, 2013 has produced—for his vocation—a degree of sympathy and [...]

In my last blog, I detailed my trips to Hungary in my attempt to learn more about the The Death of Drakula, the first film in which Dracula was used as a [...]

Graven Images: The Search for Drakula No one in reading this sentence is old enough (or undead enough) to have seen this film, which uses the following [...]

3 May. Bistritz.–Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour [...]