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2024: Silent Pictures Released to Blu-Ray and/or Streaming 13 films
This list will attempt to document all upcoming silent pictures intended to be made available (for the first time) on…
Silent Movie Day 2024: Participating Venues and Silent Movie Selections 80 films
A rundown of silent pictures selected by venues and entities participating in Silent Movie Day 2024 on September 29th, and…
Recent Silent Picture Preservation and/or Restoration Work 139 films
The word “recent” is used loosely. Some of these silent features were preserved and/or restored as far back as 2000.…
2024: Crowd Funded Silent PIctures to Release to Blu-Ray or Digital Download 5 films
A Wishlist: Silent Pictures to become accessible through Blu-Ray and Streaming 116 films
Some of the titles listed are available on DVD and in standard definition streaming transfers. This list is spotlighting titles…
2023: Silent Pictures Released to Blu-Ray and/or Streaming 33 films
This list will attempt to document all upcoming silent pictures intended to be made available (for the first time) on…
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Feature films preserved and restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive
UCLA Film & Television Archive 529 films
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New York, NY Sat, Jan 18, 2025, 2:00 p.m. Introduced by Peter Bagrov
Piano accompaniment by Makia Matsumura
MoMA, Floor T2/T1, Theater 2 The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater
Moi syn (My Son). 1928. USSR. Directed by Yevgeni Cherviakov. Screenplay by Cherviakov, Nikolai Dirin, Iuri Gromov, Viktor Turin. With Gennadii Michurin, Anna Sten, Piotr Beriozov. Silent. World premiere. Silent. Russian intertitles; English subtitles. 49 min.
Believed lost during World War II until its rediscovery in 2008 as five 16mm reels…
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New York, NY Tue, Jan 14, 2025, 6:30 p.m. Introduced by Kathryn Fuller-Seeley Piano accompaniment by Ben Model
MoMA, Floor T2/T1, Theater 2
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater
The Craving. 1918. USA. Written and directed by Francis Ford, John Ford. With Francis Ford, Mae Gaston, Peter Gerald. Silent. New York premiere. Silent. 50 min.
The Post Telegrapher. 1912. USA. Directed by Francis Ford. Silent. 24 min.
1918 found both Francis Ford and his younger brother John working at Universal,…
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New York, NY Thu, Jan 9, 2025, 7:00 p.m. Piano accompaniment
by Makia Matsumura and Sun, Jan 26, 2025, 1:30 p.m. with Original Movietone soundtrack
MoMA, Floor T2/T1, Theater 2
The Roy and Niuta
Titus Theater 2
7th Heaven. 1927. USA. Directed by Frank Borzage. Screenplay by Benjamin Glazer, based on the play by Austin Strong. With Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, David Butler. World Premiere. Silent. 110 min.
Casting Fox contract player Janet Gaynor as a Parisian street urchin and…
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New York, NY Sat, Jan 11, 2025, 1:30 p.m.
Piano accompaniment by Donald Sosin
MoMA, Floor T2/T1, Theater 2 The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater
Raskolnikow. 1923. Germany. Directed by Robert Wiene. North American premiere. Silent. 142 min.
In this haunting adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s masterwork, director Robert Wiene (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) melds German Expressionist aesthetics with the naturalistic performance style of exiled Russian actors from the Moscow Art Theater. Shot in Berlin during the tumultuous inflation of…
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Going in, I was deeply skeptical about “Crime and Punishment meets CALIGARI”, and at two-plus hours to boot. But this blew away all expectations. Terrific, enrapturing take on the famed novel, with great lead performance by Chmara (Mr. Asta Nielsen). Expressionist sets are as bonkers as you’d expect, used best in the hallucination scene (that pawnbroker’s cackling face will haunt MY nightmares now). Tour-de-force Donald Sosin accompaniment made this a great live experience.
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I’ll eat up any Russian film from Hollywood, whether good or bad. Luckily Walsh’s The Red Dance leans more good than bad despite its conflicted and uniquely American politics. Also has great comedy from supporting actor Ivan Linov and some good chemistry between leads Del Rio and Farrell.
It’s a shame more Fox films from the period didn’t survive so always glad to see one restored and looking pristine.
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Might be biased since this has been in my Letterboxd Top 4 ever since I signed up but really the perfect film to see live with an orchestra. Great heartfelt romance with amazing physical comedy.
God, I love Harold Lloyd.
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The Neptune sequences were stunning! I love Billie Dove!
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