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. 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.
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.
Review of ‘Cyankali’ (1930), a German silent/early sound film that dramatizes the plight of impoverished women who must seek the aid of illegal abortionists in Germany’s Weimar Republic.
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.
