TSFF Preview: The Italian Straw Hat (1927)
On April 2, Toronto Silent Film Festival presents a comedy of a different stripe with Rene Clair‘s The Italian Straw Hat. A comedy of manners rather than a slapstick, this French farce features a...
View ArticleTSFF Preview: Variety (1925)
Grab your socks ladies and gentlemen, because the 2012 Toronto Silent Film Festival closes with the box office smash of 1925, E.A. Dupont‘s Variety. A masterpiece of German expressionism starring Emil...
View ArticleToronto Silent Film Festival Preview
We’re heading into the final countdown… only one week ’til the launch of the 2012 Toronto Silent Film Festival! Heck to the yeah. At this point in a run-up to a film festival, reviewers would have...
View ArticleTSFF Preview: Tabu – A Tale of the South Seas (1931)
This year the Toronto Silent Film Festival will present F.W. Murnau’s Tabu – A Take of the South Seas on March 30. All silent film fans know F.W. Murnau, master of German expressionism and power house...
View ArticleFilm Friday | Weekly Roundup
Pretty Clever Film Gal’s fingers were flying all week to bring you the Toronto Silent Film Festival preview this week, resulting in what may be the first ever silent film induced case of carpal tunnel...
View ArticleFilm Friday | Weekly Roundup
Wowee – is my feets sore from doing the Charleston with Joan Crawford in Our Dancing Daughters! Last night was the opening night of the Toronto Silent Film Festival and fabulous it was. But despite...
View ArticleTSFF Review: Our Dancing Daughters (1928)
For me, there are two alternating pleasures in watching silent movies. The first is the opportunity to watch a fledgling medium, one that is still so much with us today, being born. Silent movies...
View ArticleToronto Silent Film Festival Wraps Up
I will not be leaving my house tonight to sit in a theater and watch a silent movie while a pianist plays along. This is, sadly, an unfortunate state of affairs. But I did have the rare privilege of...
View ArticleFilm Friday | Weekly Roundup
So seriously, I made a little online tour of the rep cinema’s last night to see what’s on offer this weekend, and felt very disappointed that I can’t go out to a silent film screening this week. The...
View ArticleLotte Reiniger’s Cinderella
For this installment of Saturday morning cartoons, I’m reviving this 2012 post on Lotte Reiniger, a pioneer of early animation. I also mock those not lucky enough to attend the 2012 Toronto Silent Film...
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