Visages d’enfants (1925) Faces of Children
Film review by Dan Willard. Visages d’enfants (Faces of Children) feels more modern than other films from the same era thanks to its realism and naturalistic acting.
Category: Films from the 1920’s
La Roue (1923)
Film Review by Dan Willard. Despite its groundbreaking and influential technical achievements, La roue is an overlong and rather maudlin melodrama.
Unseen Forces (1920)
Film review by Dan Willard. Unseen Forces is the story of a woman with psychic powers and her troubled romance with the son of a wealthy New York businessman.
Gypsy Anne (1920)
Film review by Dan Willard. Considered the first truly Norwegian film, Gipsy Anne is the story of an orphan girl who grows up on a farm and is courted by her stepbrother and the farmhand who discovered her when she was an infant.
Rojô no reikion (1921)
Film review by Dan Willard. Considered a landmark in Japanese cinema, Rojô no reikion or Souls on the Road, as it is referred to in English, is based on Maxim Gorky’s Lower Depths which was also adapted by Akira Kurosawa in his 1957 film Donzoko.
Forbidden Fruit (1921)
Film review by Dan Willard. Cecil B. DeMille remakes his own 1915 film, THE GOLDEN CHANCE, about a seamstress who gets a chance to pretend she’s a member of high society.
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921)
Film review by Dan Willard. The story is the type sentimental family fare that you find in a lot of Disney films but the high production values will be of interest to silent film fans.
The Phantom Carriage (1921)
Review of ‘The Phantom Carriage’ (1921), a silent Swedish film directed by and starring Victor Sjöström and considered by Ingmar Bergman as an absolute masterpiece in cinematic history.
