Love Letter: Buster Keaton’s One Week, 100 Years On Jess Goodman September 1, 2020 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia “Who would not wish to live a hundred years in a world where there are so many people who remember with gratitude and affection a little man with a frozen face who made them laugh a bit long years ago when...
A Beginner’s Guide to Silent Cinema Eddie Falvey September 28, 2014 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Features Film is now most often perceived as a vehicle for telling stories, but that was not always the case. Despite the fact that key aspects of the narrative film such as scripts, sets, and acting ensembles, had...
A Love Letter to… Sunset Boulevard Lina Jurdeczka September 11, 2014 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia A few years ago I took a Film Studies course at university. One of the classes dealt with cinephilia – the love of film. At the beginning of the session, the lecturer asked an interesting question that...
Rewinding Time: Women Screenwriters of the Silent Era Olivia Luder August 1, 2014 Analysis, Close-Up, Features “It’s the writer’s job to get screwed. Writers are the women of the movie business” – Nora Ephron, 1993 Writers have always received the short end of the movie making stick, going unnoticed as...
