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"A movie you may never have heard of but, after seeing it, one you will never forget." - The Bioscope The Ghost That Never Returns is an outstanding Soviet film by Abram Room, the director of Bed...

"A movie you may never have heard of but, after seeing it, one you will never forget." - The Bioscope The Ghost That Never Returns is an outstanding Soviet film by Abram Room, the director of Bed and Sofa (also available via Flicker Alley MOD). Released to little notice in 1930, it joins other very late silents to show the screen still developing high eloquence after the first talkies stopped silent cinema dead in its tracks. The story takes place at a South American oilfield where Jose Real...

Alla Nazimova, the Russian-born, theater-trained actress decided, on the occasion of her contract release from Metro Goldwyn Mayer in 1921, to make films "with merit." The second -- and last -- of...

Alla Nazimova, the Russian-born, theater-trained actress decided, on the occasion of her contract release from Metro Goldwyn Mayer in 1921, to make films "with merit." The second -- and last -- of these was Oscar Wilde's controversial Salome . Her director was her husband, Charles Bryant. Her set and costume designer was the beautiful and capricious heiress Winifred Hudnet, later known as Natacha Rambova and the future Mrs. Rudolph Valentino (two months after the picture was finally released)....

Aelita, The Queen Of Mars is a Socialist science fiction spectacle and in 1924 was the first big-budget movie from Soviet Russia. A year and a half in the making, it was intended as ideologically...

Aelita, The Queen Of Mars is a Socialist science fiction spectacle and in 1924 was the first big-budget movie from Soviet Russia. A year and a half in the making, it was intended as ideologically correct mass entertainment which could compete both in Russia and abroad with the Hollywood films that dominated Soviet and world screens while also earning plaudits for artistic innovation such as had greeted The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and other German expressionist films. Aelita is a fantastic...

Teinosuke Kinugasa's A Page of Madness (Kurutta ichipeiji) , produced in mid-1920s Japan, is widely considered to be one of the touchstones of early avant-garde cinema, and is also one of the most...

Teinosuke Kinugasa's A Page of Madness (Kurutta ichipeiji) , produced in mid-1920s Japan, is widely considered to be one of the touchstones of early avant-garde cinema, and is also one of the most challenging and narratively complex films of the era. The fact that this important work has never before been released on home video may be in part due to the textual difficulty, though certainly the scarcity of source material was also a contributing factor. Now, thanks to Blackhawk Films , Flicker...

Here is William S. Hart, brightest star of the early western screen, in the film he thought his best. As a 1920 reviewer wrote, "He represents the combined daring and cunning of the American...

Here is William S. Hart, brightest star of the early western screen, in the film he thought his best. As a 1920 reviewer wrote, "He represents the combined daring and cunning of the American fighting male. He not only looks the part, but he acts it with keen intelligence. There constantly shines in his eyes the combined pugnacity and caution of the true gunman of the West." Hart plays Black Deering, an outlaw who, in his own words, "ain't never been any good." He and his gang are ambushed...

Joan the Woman (Cardinal Film Corporation, 1916) was Cecil B. DeMille's first great spectacle. In keeping with theatrical tradition, DeMille sought a more formal and stylized mode of acting from...

Joan the Woman (Cardinal Film Corporation, 1916) was Cecil B. DeMille's first great spectacle. In keeping with theatrical tradition, DeMille sought a more formal and stylized mode of acting from stars Geraldine Farrar and Wallace Reid - a technique he continued in his late historical films. Wilfred Buckland's art direction is outstanding, and DeMille's social comments are subtle but biting. The film also features a dramatic hand-colored climax utilizing the Handschiegl stencil-color process....

Tol'able David is a magnificent film, carefully transferred from the best available elements, and starring the great Richard Barthelmess ( Broken Blossoms ) in the title role. This rural adaptation...

Tol'able David is a magnificent film, carefully transferred from the best available elements, and starring the great Richard Barthelmess ( Broken Blossoms ) in the title role. This rural adaptation of the David and Goliath tale chronicles the hero's passage into adulthood as he confronts three crooks looking for trouble. When the story opens, David Kinemon, the youngest son of tenant farmers living in small-town West Virginia, yearns to be seen as an adult. His youthful antics, however,...

In celebration of its 16th year of "Bringing Film History to New Audience," Flicker Alley -- the highly-esteemed publisher of rare and unique cinematic classics -- is proud to present the...

In celebration of its 16th year of "Bringing Film History to New Audience," Flicker Alley -- the highly-esteemed publisher of rare and unique cinematic classics -- is proud to present the long-awaited re-release of its first publication, The Garden of Eden. It is now available in a previously unreleased M.O.D. (Manufactured-On-Demand) Blu-ray edition. This thoroughly entertaining romantic comedy is an important film for both its beguiling star, Corinne Griffith, and talented director, Lewis...

A tragic romance set among the noble classes of 19th century Vienna, Liebelei showcases legendary director Max Ophuls' ( Letter From an Unknown Woman, The Earrings of Madame de ..., La Ronde )...

A tragic romance set among the noble classes of 19th century Vienna, Liebelei showcases legendary director Max Ophuls' ( Letter From an Unknown Woman, The Earrings of Madame de ..., La Ronde ) signature themes of love and death, as well as his wonderfully fluid visual style. In the wake of his loveless affair with a beautiful baroness, Fritz (Wolfgang Liebeneiner), a handsome lieutenant of the mounted Dragoons, becomes enamored with Christine (Magda Schneider*), the daughter of a middle-class...

An immortality that Soviet Russia has heretofore allotted only to Lenin and Marx is bestowed upon the country's greatest writer, Maxim Gorky. -- Variety One of the noblest achievements of pre-war...

An immortality that Soviet Russia has heretofore allotted only to Lenin and Marx is bestowed upon the country's greatest writer, Maxim Gorky. -- Variety One of the noblest achievements of pre-war Soviet cinema, (Jay Leyda, Kino ), this haunting, unforgettable film is based upon Maxim Gorky's 1913 autobiography My Childhood and shows a twelve-year-old's journey in life against the tumultuous backdrop of 19th century Russia. With tableaux beautifully vivid and forceful, it recounts the touching...