Decade of the Month: Son of Griff on the Black Riders of the Purple Sage
Traditional notions of African American culture in the 1920s are based on urban communities during…
Decade of the Month: SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS
All in all, F.W. Murnau’s Sunrise has an almost mythic sense of beauty and power.…
Decade of the Month: Tom “vomas” Morton on GO WEST
Buster Keaton loves an underdog. Most of his protagonists are down on their luck, or…
Decade of the Month: Sunil Patel on SHERLOCK, JR.
Many years ago, I saw The General in a theater with live orchestral accompaniment and…
Lang the Mythmaker: METROPOLIS, Part 2
Metropolis continues Die Niebelungen’s temporal mishmash, but what was merely confusing in Niebelungen becomes an…
Lang vs. Von Harbou: James Williams on METROPOLIS
The silent film era persists in the public consciousness mostly as a collection of moments…
Epic Lang: METROPOLIS and DIE NIBELUNGEN
Fritz Lang was an incredibly versatile filmmaker, but he spent much of his career in…
Decade of the Month: Tom “vomas” Morton on 3 BAD MEN
Looking back at John Ford’s 3 Bad Men today, it would be easy to call…
Decade of the Month: SPEEDY and the Fine Art of the Action Comedy
It’s not an easy time to find a laugh at the movie theaters. As the…