Ahead of this Sunday's Academy Awards broadcast, in which the hit silent-era pastiche The Artist is up for Best Picture, David Denby ...

Critic David Bordwell on Dante's cheerful purgatorio — Occasioned by a New York retrospective of director Joe Dante's films, incl...

Well, this just made me go, "Oh, yes, please." Here's a newsy follow-up to the Louise Brooks gushing I did in a June post, A...

Speaking of Louise Brooks (and we were ), the San Francisco Silent Film Festival has announced this summer's movie line-up and look who...

I do love a good Cagney movie. White Heat , Angels with Dirty Faces , Yankee Doodle Dandy .... Like Bogart or Ingrid Bergman or Cary Grant...