Starring: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Constantine Romanoff, Walter James Director: Ted Wilde, Harold Lloyd Harold Hickory (Lloyd) is the youngest son of the Sherriff of Hickoryville and is often ignored by his father and huge older brothers. He takes on roles around the home, working smarter by creating better ways to do things, but he… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: The Kid Brother (1927)
Starring: Allakariallak, Alice Nevalinga, Cunayou Director: Robert J Flaherty At the start of this film, a title card lets us know that Flaherty worked for a fur company in the Artic which brought him into contact with the people of the Artic Circle. He started to take video footage of them, but when the film… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: Nanook Of The North (1922)
Starring: Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp Director: D. W. Griffith Full of youthful idealism, a young Buddhist (Barthelmess) leaves China for London, hoping to convert people to his peaceful religion. But life in Limehouse, one of the poorer parts of the city, leaves him disillusioned and he starts to smoke opium. When he sees… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: Broken Blossoms (1919)
A lot of people don't know that the first feature length film was Australian. Australia used to have a thriving film industry but with American studios owning cinemas and block booking, the industry was killed off til the New Wave in the 70's ushered in a new era. But in 1906, The Story of the… Continue reading Australian Movie Month: The Story Of The Kelly Gang (1906)
Starring: Victor Sjostrom, Hilda Borgstrom, Tore Svennberg Director: Victor Sjostrom On New Years Eve, a drunk is faced with his mortality and his selfishness when the driver of a phantom carriage takes him on the ride of his life. This film is startlingly dark and beautiful, with imagery which is quite creepy. The use of… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: Korkarlen / The Phantom Carriage (1921)
Starring: Buster Keaton, Natalie Talmadge, Joe Keaton Director: Buster Keaton, Jack Blystone The MacKay family decide to send their young child away to safety after another local family swear to kill every last member of their family. The feud is nursed for years in the Appalachian town, but little Willy Mackay grows into a young… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: Our Hospitality (1923)
Starring: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry Director: Rupert Julian, Lon Chaney Of all the adaptations of Gaston Leroux's famous Gothic romance of 1910, this silent era film of the 1920's sticks the closest to the original plot. It's the story of Christine (Philbin), a young singer in the Paris Opera, who is catapulted to… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: Phantom Of The Opera (1925)
Starring: Georges Melies, Victor Andre, Bleuette Bernon Director: Georges Melies Going back quite a way into film history this time, back into a time when cinema was in it’s infancy. You’ve probably seen that image of the moon as a man’s cream cheesey looking face with a spaceship stuck in one eye, and this is… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: Trip To The Moon (La Voyage Dans La Lune) (1902)
Starring: Elizabeth Christensen, Astrid Holm, Karen Winther Director: Benjamin Christensen A film in 7 chapter or parts, this is an early documentary film, though it's not a true documentary as we now know them. It's about witchcraft through the ages, the first chapter being a slideshow style history lesson about how the world was understood… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: Haxan (1922)
Starring: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Frolich Director: Fritz Lang In a beautifully realised dystopian future, the world is run by the decadent city planners, who are strongly divided from the working classes, but all this changes when the son of the city's overlord meets Maria, a kind woman from the working classes who opens… Continue reading 105 Must Watch Movies: Metropolis (1927)
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