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Film podcast discussing the Silent era (1894 to 1929) and the importance these moving pictures still have in todays age. Every week, we watch silent films, then talk about it! Hosted by YiFe...
A tantalizing futuristic wonder, Metropolis is a Silent lingering with choreography that makes your eyes wander throughout the tale as a spe...
One of the most well-known (dare we say famous!) silent films of all time due to a man dangling from the arm of a clock, Safety Last! anchor...
The fable-like, poignant story, subtitled A Song of Two Humans , Sunrise is an American silent melodramatic masterpiece by German director F...
When Letty Mason (Lillian Gish), an impoverished young woman from Virginia, relocates to West Texas, she finds herself unsettled by the ever...
As a party of aristocrats gathers at the Vogelöd family manor house for a hunting weekend, the uninvited arrival of Count Oechst (Lothar Meh...
Post WW1, F.W. Murnau directs this German-Danish co-production, showcasing some of his best intentions toward future films. Der Gang in die...
In Robert Wiene's final film entry, Wiene proved that he not only had impeccable taste when it came to creating the rococo ambience of the o...
By the director of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, this is the Passion embedded in a contemporary story. An anarchist jailed for an attempted a...
For the viewer who has grown accustomed to Douglas Fairbank's and his similar "themes," films dealing with swashbuckling or youth or joy, Th...
"Crime and Punishment," the original story written in twelve monthly installments during 1866 by Dostoevsky, focuses on the mental anguish a...
The most cherished film by Charlie Chaplin, City Lights is also his ultimate Little Tramp chronicle. The writer-director-star achieved new l...
Robert Wiene's Genuine: A Tale of a Vampire follows-up his massively successful 1919 film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari , using the same write...
The most cherished film by Charlie Chaplin, City Lights is also his ultimate Little Tramp chronicle. The writer-director-star achieved new l...
Part of legendary director Alfred Hitchcock's "9," The Pleasure Garden marks his directorial debut with this British-German wonder. For the...
With Autumn quickly approaching, WSF takes on another German expressionist silent horror written and directed by Caligari's Robert Wiene. FU...
We rejoin Diane MacIntyre again this week as we talk about The Thief of Bagdad , starring Douglas Fairbanks. Freely adapted from One Thousan...
When corrupt Governor Alvarado (George Periolat) crushes the poor people of Spanish California under his iron heel, wealthy fop Don Diego Ve...
In D.W. Griffith's "Masterpiece," Intolerance intercuts between four separate stories about man's inhumanity to man. In Babylon, pacifist Pr...
In Buster Keaton's last independent film for United Artists before moving on to MGM, this silent comedy is known for what might be considere...
The Canfield and McKay families have been feuding for so long, no one remembers the reason the feud started in the first place. Twenty years...
This clever parody of D. W. Griffith's INTOLERANCE follows Buster's hard-luck romantic adventures in his first independently produced featur...
Jilted by her fiance, Sylvia Landry (Evelyn Preer) returns down south to her roots, and takes a job teaching at the Piney Woods school for b...
Buster plays a movie projectionist who daydreams himself into the movies he is showing and merges with the figures and the backgrounds on th...
As new generations discover the magic of silent cinema, Buster Keaton has emerged as one of the era’s most admired and respected artists. Be...
As new generations discover the magic of silent cinema, Buster Keaton has emerged as one of the era's most admired and respected artists. Be...
As new generations discover the magic of silent cinema, Buster Keaton has emerged as one of the era's most admired and respected artists. Be...
Russian auteur Sergei Eisenstein's first full-length feature, set just before the 1905 Bolshevik Revolution, depicts a workers' strike again...
In an unnamed "western state" where women can vote, an all female political party fields a lady lawyer, Clara Madison, to run for superior c...
Few individual artists have exerted as profound an influence upon the evolution of cinema as Alice Guy (later known as Guy-Blaché). With thi...
A 33-minute religious epic: The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ (1906) based on Tissot's The Life of Christ watercolors in 25 scenes...
Few individual artists have exerted as profound an influence upon the evolution of cinema as Alice Guy (later known as Guy-Blaché). With thi...
Edith Hardy uses charity funds for Wall Street investments in hopes of buying some new gowns. She loses all the money and borrows from wealt...
Terje Vigen lives happily with his wife and little girl on a small island in Norway. ... When he was finally freed in 1814 and can return ho...
1908 to 1917 was a decade of major change in the film business. Here are a few highlights: American cinema saw an expansion out of New Jerse...
Dante is barred from entering the hill of salvation by three beasts that bar his path (Avarice, Pride and Lust). Beatrice descends from abov...
1908 to 1917 was a decade of major change in the film business. Here are a few highlights: American cinema saw an expansion out of New Jerse...
1888 is a somewhat arbitrary year to begin this series, but it evens out the decades to finish up 130 years later. Since there was no reliab...
The film centres around the 1978 discovery of 533 reels of film in Dawson City. These works had been sealed within a swimming pool. The unea...
The Earl of Huntingdon (Douglas Fairbanks) learns from his beloved Lady Marian Fitzwalter (Enid Bennett) that the throne of King Richard the...
One of the most revered comedies of the silent era, this film finds hapless Southern railroad engineer Johnny Gray (Buster Keaton) facing of...
When they are fed rancid meat, the sailors on the Potemkin revolt against their harsh conditions. Led by Vakulinchuk (Aleksandr Antonov), th...
In this highly influential silent horror film, the mysterious Count Orlok (Max Schreck) summons Thomas Hutter (Gustav von Wangenheim) to his...
A hybrid of documentary and fiction, this silent film explores the history of witchcraft, demonology and satanism. It shows representations...
YiFeng & Lily discuss In the Hands of Orlac (1924) directed by Robert Wiene Referenced: Maltin on Movies Ken Burns Hands of Orlac book The I...
YiFeng & Lily discuss The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) directed by Robert Wiene Referenced: The Catcher in the Rye Mise-en-scène Recorded...
YiFeng & Lily talk about Oscar Micheaux 's Body and Soul (1925). Here are the films referenced on this podcast: Kino Lorber box set Pioneers...
YiFeng & Lily chat about this Lois Weber directorial feature; Recorded September 20th, 2019
YiFeng & Lily chats about Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018) by Pamela B. Green https://benaturalthemovie.com/;Recorded...
YiFeng & Lily chats about G.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915); Recorded on September 6th, 2019
YiFeng & Lily wrap up the dawn of cinema by chatting about Georges Méliès's A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lune) from 1902 and Edwin...