The Year 1908 in Film: The Debuts of Detective Films, Film d’Art, Peplum, Griffith and the Russian Film Industry. Includes a YouTube playlist.
Film review by Dan Willard. This film adaptation of the Cinderella Ballet is more than a mere recording of a stage production.
Film review by Dan Willard. Most of Russian director Yevgeni Chervyakov’s films from the twenties have been lost yet he was considered a giant of Soviet cinema by his contemporaries. CITIES AND YEARS is the story of a Russian painter in Berlin during WWI.
Film review by Dan Willard. Set in a bleak Siberian industrial wasteland in 1947, this tale of a harrowing childhood is worth seeing for the stark B&W cinematography alone.
