The film with the wonky sets? Yes, the film with the wonky sets – but Robert Wiene’s silent horror landmark has so much more to offer, and that’s never been as apparent as it will be when you watch Eureka Masters of Cinema’s new loaded-up Blu-Ray. As well as a […]
Silent film
In Defence Of – Invincible
Director: Werner Herzog Content: Film Studio: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion Synopsis: Zishe Breitbart moves to Berlin to seek his fortune as a strongman, and comes under the management of the hypnotist and fraudulent mystic Hanussen. But this is 1932, and the Jewish Breitbart is increasingly disturbed when he realises what Germany’s […]
Buster Keaton: Complete Short Films – 1917-1923 (Review)
The history of cinema is fascinating when journeying back to its origins, illustrating how much has changed over the course of time. Take science fiction and horror as the prime examples, both are worlds away from their respective zeitgeists – almost as if comparing night with day. Comedy is different […]
Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film (2016) Pulls off the Impossible (Review)
Around China with a Movie Camera (2015) A Must for Film Historians (Review)
Shooting Stars (1928) Unapologetically British Silent Film Glamour (Review)
Nosferatu (1922): The most important Horror film ever made (Review)
Each and every Halloween a classic Horror film is lavished with a limited cinema run. Taking high street cinema chain Cineworld for example, over the last two years they have screened Wes Craven’s 1984 classic Nightmare on Elm Street and Joe Dante’s anarchic delight, Gremlins. This year there’s something that […]
Dr Mabuse, The Gambler (1922): Fritz Lang, again, decades and decades ahead of his time (Review)
Cinema in its essence is a visual medium; the silent film can be viewed as nothing but cinema in its purest form. That’s the theory anyhow. Contemporary audiences have written pre-sound cinema as archaic and therefore unworthy of any prolonged attention beyond that which one would pay to a historical […]