Silent Volume

  There are moments in Wild Oranges when you wonder what you’re watching. It’s a silent film alright, and it looks like one—but this sto...

A Woman of Paris is most famous for who isn’t in it. Charlie Chaplin directed the film, a personal project to ensure star Edna Purv...

I like a lot of scenes in The Single Standard, but there’s only one I love. It’s night, it’s raining. Arden Stuart (Great Garbo), in ...

When I need my fix of 1920s/early-30s human grotesquerie, I know who to turn to: the Austrians. Films like Greed (1924) and M (1931) a...

If your script is tragic enough, it doesn’t need to be good. The audience will still be moved. Actually, I don’t believe that. Or, I do...

Tabu is two films, linked by memory. Or maybe fantasy. The two people doing the remembering are elderly, and in one case, demented; the ...

Note: It Happened One Night screens this Wednesday night, part of TIFF in the Park 2012… **** How many men dreamed, in 1934, of reading...