Tag Archives: 1920s cinema

In the third and final part of my review of Kino Lorber’s enormous Fritz Lang: The Silent Films Blu-ray box set, I’m going to explore the last few films in the set, which also make up Lang’s final silent films ...

Over the last couple of years, Kino Lorber have been resolutely releasing all of Fritz Lang’s early silent films on DVD and then Blu-ray, adding some important titles to the home video market. But their latest Lang offering—a 12-disc Blu-ray ...

While Ewald André Dupont’s Varieté (Variety, 1925) and William A. Wellman’s Beggars of Life (1928) come from two different studio systems—Weimar Germany’s legendary UFA in the case of Varieté, while Beggars of Life was a Hollywood production—they have a striking ...

“Her exultant dream of freedom ended—a helpless captive in the desert wastes.” —The Sheik The legacy of Italian-born star Rudolph Valentino seems to be largely relegated to silent film fans and early Hollywood aficionados, thanks in part to his highly ...