By Sarah Bastin Mary Louise Miller (1924–2003) had a brief but indelible career as a child star during the silent film era. Her film career began when she was just six months old and ended at the age of […]
Flicker Alley is proud to present the following essay by Beth Ann Gallagher. Film fanatic Beth Ann Gallagher lives on a California island, where she writes her blog Spellbound by Movies. Being a retro buff, her blog celebrates silent […]
Flicker Alley is proud to present the following essay by Jeff Lundenberger. A graduate of Thomas Edison State University, Jeff Lundenberger is an ardent classic film fan who is a regular contributor to blogs, printed publications, and classic film […]
Flicker Alley is proud to present the following essay by Robert M. Fells. Robert M. “Bob” Fells is an independent film historian and author. An attorney and trade association executive in the Washington, D.C. area, Bob has been collecting […]
By Sarah Bastin Today, September 30, 2016, is the 64th anniversary of the debut of Cinerama, when This Is Cinerama premiered in theaters in 1952. In honor of this anniversary, Flicker Alley presents the following interview! Film historian […]
Flicker Alley is proud to present the following essay by Robert M. Fells. Robert M. “Bob” Fells is an independent film historian and author. An attorney and trade association executive in the Washington, D.C. area, Bob has been collecting […]
By Sarah Bastin Film historian and preservationist David Shepard is the founder of Film Preservation Associates, the owner of Blackhawk Films® Collection and the producer of many Flicker Alley titles, including Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film 1920-1970, Chaplin’s […]
Our Los Angeles fans have the chance to see Wild and Woolly (1917), featured on Douglas Fairbanks: A Modern Musketeer, on screen this Saturday! Enter below! [contesthopper contest=”4897″] For more giveaways, exclusive essays, film preservation […]
Flicker Alley is proud to present the following essay by Kendahl Cruver of A Classic Movie Blog, written for Detectives and Dames: A Flicker Alley Noir Blog-a-Thon! Too Late for Tears (1949) and Woman on the Run (1950) are […]
Flicker Alley is proud to present the following essay by John Grant/Noirish, written for Detectives and Dames: A Flicker Alley Noir Blog-a-Thon! Too Late for Tears (1949) is available NOW on Blu-ray/DVD! Order today! John Grant is an award-winning […]
Flicker Alley is proud to present the following essay by Kim Luperi of I See a Dark Theater, written for Detectives and Dames: A Flicker Alley Noir Blog-a-Thon! Too Late for Tears (1949) is available on Blu-ray/DVD tomorrow, May […]
By Sarah Bastin Last week, Flicker Alley sat down with Serge Bromberg, film preservationist and founder of Paris-based Lobster Films, before his presentation at the TCM Classic Film Festival on Friday, April 29, entitled “Amazing Film Discoveries.” Bromberg is […]
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Flicker Alley is proud to present the following essay by Film Noir of the Week, written for Detectives and Dames: A Flicker Alley Noir Blog-a-Thon! Woman on the Run (1950) is available on Blu-ray/DVD May 10! Pre-order today! It’s […]
Flicker Alley is proud to present the following essay by Vince Keenan, written for Detectives and Dames: A Flicker Alley Noir Blog-a-Thon! Too Late for Tears (1949) is available on Blu-ray/DVD May 10! Pre-order today! Vince Keenan is the […]
Flicker Alley is proud to present the following essay by Silver Screenings, written for Detectives and Dames: A Flicker Alley Noir Blog-a-Thon! Woman on the Run (1950) is available on Blu-ray/DVD May 10! Pre-order today! We just discovered a […]
Flicker Alley is proud to present the following essay by Elyce Rae Helford, written for Detectives and Dames: A Flicker Alley Noir Blog-a-Thon! Too Late for Tears (1949) is available on Blu-ray/DVD May 10! Pre-order today! Elyce Rae Helford, […]
Flicker Alley is proud to present the following essay by EverythingNoir.com, written for Detectives and Dames: A Flicker Alley Noir Blog-a-Thon! Ann Sheridan stars in Woman on the Run (1950) and Lizabeth Scott stars in Too Late for Tears […]
Flicker Alley is proud to present the following essay by BNoirDetour, written for Detectives and Dames: A Flicker Alley Noir Blog-a-Thon! Woman on the Run (1950) is available on Blu-ray/DVD May 10! Pre-order today! Note: This essay contains spoilers […]
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Flicker Alley is proud to present the following essay by Karen Burroughs Hannsberry of Shadows and Satin, written for Detectives and Dames: A Flicker Alley Noir Blog-a-Thon! Actor Arthur Kennedy stars in Too Late for Tears (1949), available on […]
Flicker Alley is proud to present the following essay by Andy Wolverton of JOURNEYS IN DARKNESS AND LIGHT, written for Detectives and Dames: A Flicker Alley Noir Blog-a-Thon! Woman on the Run (1950) is available on Blu-ray/DVD May 10! […]
Come be a part of Flicker Alley’s first-ever Blu-ray/DVD release party screening! Flicker Alley and the Film Noir Foundation are proud to present Too Late for Tears at NOIR CITY: HOLLYWOOD, the 18th Annual Los Angeles Festival of Film Noir! The screening […]
Flicker Alley is proud to present the following essay by Laura Grieve of Laura’s Miscellaneous Musings, written for Detectives and Dames: A Flicker Alley Noir Blog-a-Thon! Actor Dennis O’Keefe stars in Woman on the Run (1950), available on Blu-ray/DVD […]
In order to celebrate our upcoming Blu-ray/DVD releases of Too Late for Tears (1949) and Woman on the Run (1950), Flicker Alley is hosting Detectives and Dames: A Flicker Alley Noir Blog-a-Thon! Every week until the films’ release on May 10, […]
Flicker Alley is proud to announce a new bonus feature to our upcoming Blu-ray/DVD Combo Edition of Woman on the Run: “Woman on the Run Locations Then and Now.” CitySleuth of ReelSF.com leads a virtual tour around San Francisco, […]
Ballet Mechanique (1923-24) by Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy is hailed as a masterpiece of early avant-garde filmmaking. The opening credits features a title card with the phrase "Charlot présente le ballet mécanique" along with a cutout figure all modern movie-goers [...]
When filming L'Inhumaine (1924), director Marcel L'Herbier endeavored to assemble an artistic team of visual and plastic vanguards. Who better then to provide sculptures for this cutting-edge production than avant-garde artist and pioneer of modern sculpture, Joseph Csaky? Born [...]
All My Babies: A Midwife's Own Story is the story of "Miss Mary" Coley, an African-American midwife more than half a century ago in rural Georgia. Its production sponsored by the Georgia Department of Public Health as a demonstration [...]
Feminist, rebellious, and a close friend of Marcel L’Herbier’s, famed opera singer Georgette Leblanc shared the director's artistic vision for L'Inhumaine (1924). In the film, Leblanc plays Claire Lescott, the "inhuman woman" who lives on the outskirts of Paris where she draws important men [...]
With the intention of capturing the trends of the time in the field of artistic creation, director Marcel L'Herbier surrounded himself with exceptional collaborators on the film L'Inhumaine. One of these collaborators was future filmmaker Claude Autant-Lara, whose first [...]
The Library of Congress has announced its annual selection of 25 films to be named to the National Film Registry, and we’re proud to announce that three of the films honored have been published by Flicker Alley! The Mark […]
Stan Brakhage had a voracious appetite for visionary experience in all forms. Not only did Brakhage pursue a radical approach to filmmaking between 1953 and 2003, he also lectured widely and wrote on the history of cinema, art, literature and aesthetics, […]
In the midst of drafting his 1899 stage adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, William Gillette sent Arthur Conan Doyle the following cable: “May I marry Holmes?” To which Conan Doyle famously responded, "You may marry him, murder him, or do [...]
What role should film play in the classroom? Are movies a distraction or a tool that can be used to enhance children’s learning experience? These questions that educators grapple with today are anything but new. Take this excerpt from the April 11, […]
By Dan Kamin, performer and author of The Comedy of Charlie Chaplin: Artistry in Motion Mr. Chaplin threw up his hands. “I have been in the Essanay Studio just fifteen minutes,” he said, “and I don’t know anything about anything.”[1] […]
Bruce Baillie is one of the great figures in American avant-garde filmmaking. Since 1960, he has produced a body of films unsurpassed for their lyrical sensuality, expressive honesty and formal inventiveness. His 1966 film, Castro Street (The Coming of Consciousness) transforms a walk down a […]
One of the many rare bonus features included on the Sherlock Holmes Blu-ray/DVD set is an HD transfer of ‘Interview with Arthur Conan Doyle’ from the Fox Movietone Collection. In this excerpt, Conan Doyle explains how his frustration with […]
“It is quite a three pipe problem,” Sherlock Holmes tells Dr. Watson in The Red-Headed League, “and I beg that you won’t speak to me for fifty minutes.” While that short story was written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle […]
Experimental filmmaker and artist Lawrence Jordan is known as a maverick spirit in the avant-garde world. A key figure in San Francisco’s avant-garde art scene in the 1950s-60s, Jordan also played a pivotal role in the expansion of the Film Department […]
Launched in 1999, The Chaplin Project brings together a consortium of international archives with Lobster Films in Paris and the Cineteca di Bologna in Italy to restore all of Charlie Chaplin’s short films and features. Serge Bromberg, founder of […]
The National Board of Review’s Committee on Exceptional Motion Pictures reviewed three experimental films by Maya Deren for their March 1946 issue of New Movies magazine, including Meshes of the Afternoon, part of Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film […]
In this Flicker Alley exclusive, Donald Sosin describes his journey to becoming one of today’s leading silent film composers and his method behind creating new scores for four of the films included in Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film 1920-1970: Manhatta, The […]
by Charles Epting The community of Niles, California is synonymous with Charlie Chaplin. The town hosts an annual Charlie Chaplin Days festival, antique store windows are lined with images of the iconic actor, and a life-sized statue of the […]
Daughter of acclaimed independent filmmaker Shirley Clarke, Wendy Clarke grew up immersed in the avant-garde art film culture of New York in the 1960s. Her wedding is the focus of the “Wendy’s Wedding” vignette in Jonas Mekas’ Walden: Diaries, Notes and […]
Ballet Mechanique (1923-24) by Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy is a Dadaist post-Cubist art film. The film has undergone a 2K digital restoration from 35mm for the Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film 1920-1970 Blu-ray/DVD collection with music by George Antheil from original [...]
By Fernand Léger Every effort in the line of spectacle or moving picture should be concentrated on bringing out the values of the object—even at the expense of the subject and of every other so called photographic element of […]
After its 1938 premiere, Mark Donski’s The Childhood of Maxim Gorky quickly became essential viewing for film societies and art houses across the globe. In 1957, nineteen years after the debut, the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, MA was one such repertory film house […]
Movie magazines are an invaluable resource to silent film scholars and fans alike. Join noted author and researcher Annette D’Agostino Lloyd as she describes the fascinating story of one of the most important such publications. This essay originally appeared […]
We’re honored to announce KCRW has named Dziga Vertov: The Man with the Movie Camera and Other Newly-Restored Works as one of its exclusive DVD Club selections. Each year, Wall Street Journal film critic and KCRW film commentator, Joe Morgenstern […]
Cecil B. DeMille created a world of style and elegance in The Affairs of Anatol, starring Gloria Swanson and Wallace Reid. Presenting debauchery with amazing visual flair, DeMille clearly meant the film to be as much a decorative feast. [...]
In the blog post below, Fritzi Kramer of Movies Silently takes a look at the iconic David and Goliath fight scene in the coming-of-age silent Tol’able David, now available on Manufactured-On-Demand (MOD) DVD. This blog post originally appeared on the […]
On Sunday, May 31, the new restoration of William Gillette’s Sherlock Holmes premiered to North American audiences at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Long considered lost until a complete dupe negative was identified in the vaults of la Cinémathèque […]
Women fainted in the aisles when The Sheik was released in 1921. The titled Lady Diana Mayo (Agnes Ayres) is carried into the desert by an Arab chieftan, Ahmed Ben Hassan (Rudolph Valentino), who takes one look at her […]
by Charles Epting, author of University Park, Los Angeles (Brief History) My name is Charles Epting. I’m 21 years old, and I almost exclusively watch silent films. That is a fact that is often met with incredulity by my peers. […]
In this review of The Man With the Movie Camera, blogger Silver Screenings posits that the innovative techniques used in the silent Soviet documentary represent both the construction of visual poetry and the deconstruction of filmmaking. This post originally appeared […]
Liuda meets Volodia for the first time when Volodia inadvertently walks in on her changing in this scene from the 1927 Soviet comedy, Bed And Sofa. ***If the video below will not load, click here to watch directly on YouTube.*** Bed […]
Classic film blogger Aurora (@CitizenScreen) talks chess obsession and the art of film editing in her review of the 1925 Soviet classic, Chess Fever. The post below originally appeared on the Once Upon a Screen blog as part of Movies Silently‘s […]
