drax in # movies • 13 hours ago • 4 min readFilm Review: Madame DuBarry (Passion, 1919)Ernst Lubitsch enjoys the reputation of being one of the most legendary directors of Classic Hollywood, mainly built on his sophisticated comedies made in a style known as the "Lubitsch touch". Like…drax in # movies • yesterday • 3 min readFilm Review: Sir Arne's Treasure (Herr Arnes pengar, 1919)Few relationships between a writer and a film industry have been as fruitful as that between Swedish Nobel Prize laureate Selma Lagerlöf and the nascent Swedish film industry during the first…drax in # movies • 2 days ago • 4 min readFilm Review: J'accuse (1919)Wars, if they are long and destructive enough, can be traumatic even for the winning side. This is the conclusion you may reach if you watch J’accuse , the 1919 French silent film directed by…drax in # movies • 2 days ago • 4 min readFilm Review: The Spiders (Die Spinnen, 1919 - 1920)Cancellation is something to be expected by fans of many of today’s television series. Over a century ago, the same thing could happen to their big-screen equivalents, including some that played an…drax in # movie • 3 days ago • 5 min readFilm Review: Broken Blossoms (1919)In 1915 D. W. Griffith earned his place in history by directing The Birth of a Nation , a groundbreaking epic that revealed new possibilities offered by the still young medium of film, but also…drax in # movies • 3 days ago • 4 min readFilm Review: The Outlaw and His Wife (Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru, 1918)Classic films from the silent era look overly melodramatic when compared with modern films, which could be easily explained by the lack of sound forcing actors to use overly theatrical facial…drax in # movies • 4 days ago • 5 min readFilm Review: Himmelskibbet (A Trip to Mars, 1918)Denmark, despite its relatively small size, made large contributions to world cinema. Much of that should be credited to Nordisk Film, one of the oldest and most respected film studios in Europe.…drax in # movies • 4 days ago • 4 min readFilm Review: Shoulder Arms (1918)In the 1970s’ and early 1980s’ Yugoslavia, it wasn’t uncommon for cinemas to show old films. It actually made much sense, because before the advent of home video, those wishing to enjoy great films…drax in # movies • 5 days ago • 4 min readFilm Review: A Man There Was (Terje Vigen, 1917)The Second World War wasn't the first time Norwegians suffered because of their country being involved in a global conflict. A similar event from more than a century earlier provided the backdrop…drax in # movies • 5 days ago • 3 min readFilm Review: The Little Princess (1917)To many viewers these days, the practice of adult casts playing teen characters might seem awkward. This apparently did not bother audiences a century ago. Adult actors played child characters, and…drax in # movies • 6 days ago • 7 min readFilm Review: Hell's Hinges (1916)Over a century removed from our contemporary secular landscape, it becomes readily apparent that religion occupied a far more central and overtly influential position within the fabric of American…drax in # movies • 7 days ago • 7 min readFilm Review: Intolerance (1916)In 1915 D.W. Griffith wrote a new chapter in the history of cinema with The Birth of a Nation . The film, which was the very first true epic in the history of Hollywood, was an enormous…drax in # movies • 7 days ago • 7 min readFilm Review: The Cheat (1915)Hollywood in its formative years served as a mirror reflecting American society in all its complexity, including its deeply entrenched racist sentiments. The industry's earliest productions…drax in # movies • 8 days ago • 5 min readFilm Review: Daydreams (Gryozy, 1915)It is a common tendency among casual cinephiles to reduce the history of Russian cinema to the radical innovations of the 1920s—most notably the revolutionary montage techniques of Sergei Eisenstein…drax in # movies • 8 days ago • 3 min readFilm Review: The Tunnel (Der Tunnel, 1915)In the first decades of cinema, the mere novelty of film as a technology made the science fiction genre appealing to filmmakers. Some of the most expensive and ambitious film projects of that era…drax in # movies • 9 days ago • 6 min readFilm Review: Les Vampires (1915 - 1916)In the first two decades of cinema, two French companies – Pathé and Gaumont – dominated the global market that would later be taken over by Hollywood. This was due to those studios being the first…drax in # movies • 9 days ago • 9 min readFilm Review: The Birth of a Nation (1915)The old films always represent a challenge to anyone trying to review them from modern perspectives. The challenge is even greater if such films are truly old and weren't made with CGI and other…drax in # movies • 10 days ago • 6 min readFilm Review: Cabiria (1914)Italian cinema has a long and distinguished history, including a relatively short period in the 1950s and 1960s when it was poised even to dethrone Hollywood as the global cinema leader. Its…drax in # movies • 10 days ago • 4 min readFilm Review: The Student of Prague (Der Student von Prague, 1913)Cinema during its first decades struggled to be taken seriously. For most of the cultural establishment, it was considered nothing more than a cheap circus-like attraction, enjoyed mostly by…drax in # movies • last year • 2 min readFilm Review: Little City (1997)Globalization advocates often discuss a world that is more open, visually diverse, and free of social barriers. However, despite these advancements, some individuals, even in multi-ethnic…
