The Alfred Hitchcock Project #7: The Farmer’s Wife (1928)

After a long rest, my Alfred Hitchcock project continues with a romantic comedy (Really? From Hitchcock?) from 1928, The Farmer’s Wife.

Best Discoveries of 2020: The 1920s

The films I encountered this year for the first time from the 1920s.

The Alfred Hitchcock Project Begins

I recently began a project of watching all of the feature films directed by Alfred Hitchcock in chronological order. Today, I’m covering Hitchcock’s first film, The Pleasure Garden (1925) and the lost film The Mountain Eagle (1926). Stay tuned for more!

The Best Movie Discoveries of 2019: The 1920s and 1930s

Today I take a look at the best movies I saw this year from the ’20s and ’30s.

The Best of 2017: Silent Movies

With apologies to my friend Movies Silently, I must confess that silent movies are still quite a blindspot for me. I’m almost never disappointed when I watch silent films, but I think it’s getting myself in the right frame of mind to watch them that keeps me from watching more often. Just know that it’s something I’m still working on… So here are the silent films I most enjoyed in 2017:

Summer Reading Challenge: Asheville Movies Volume I: The Silent Era – Frank Thompson

Asheville Movies Volume I: The Silent Era – Frank Thompson
Men With Wings Press, 2017
Trade paperback, 104 pages with photographs, notes (bibliography), people index, film title index

Even with the current technological potential to make movies practically anywhere in the world, when we think of motion pictures in general, we often think of those shot in Hollywood and New York. Sure, you might see an occasional American movie filmed in San Francisco, Chicago, maybe the South or the Southwest, or even New England, but we’ve come to believe that the bulk of American films are produced in New York or L.A.

Here comes Frank Thompson to turn your world upside down.

Movies Watched in May 2017 Part IV

Here we go, wrapping up May 2017, which ended with a total of 33 movies. You can catch up on what happened in Parts I, II and III.

Silent Films and Documentaries in 2016

Silent Films

With apologies to Movies Silently, I didn’t watch that many silent films in 2016, but the ones I saw were exceptional. (I also saw lots of Buster Keaton shorts and shorts from the Pioneers of African American Cinema set, collections I hope to complete in 2017.)

Blindspot Series 2016: Faust (1926)

Faust (1926)
Directed by F.W. Murnau
Written by Gerhart Hauptman, Hans Kyser, based on the play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Produced by Erich Pommer
Cinematography by Carl Hoffmann
Edited by Elfi Böttrich
Universum Film (Germany), MGM (US)
Amazon streaming (1:47)

Continuing my Blindspot 2016 series, inspired by The Matinee:

L’inhumaine (1924) Marcel L’Herbier

L’inhumaine (1924) Marcel L’Herbier
Flicker Alley Blu-ray (2:02)

Almost anyone who loves science fiction movies will have at some point watched at least part of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927). Maybe it’s the only silent science fiction film they’ve ever seen. (I know that was the case with me for several years.) Yet other silent sf films are also worth your attention, such as The Lost World (1925), A Trip to the Moon (1902) and many others. Now, thanks to a stellar new release from Flicker Alley, you can add L’inhumaine (1924) to that list.