FLICKER ALLEY

Richard Oswald's Der Hund von Baskerville, the last silent film starring Sherlock Holmes, has been less a legend than a rumor among cinephiles and Sherlockians. This seven-reel film, with it's long...

The mirror of life and people parade across the big screen in black and white moving images and then with sound and in color. Film historians Eric Lange and Serge Bromberg illustrate the birth of...

The Dolls of Lisbon" is New York City's Antagonist Art Movement's latest exploit inspired by the Zapatista Dolls of Mexico, a souvenir that travelled the world symbolizing a little known rebellion...

While he's noted for his string of swashbuckling roles, here are 11 ancient film treasures from before Fairbanks' pirate days including the Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916), Reaching for the Moon...

This DVD brings together two of Upheaval Productions' films on New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, Down But Not Out and Dos Americas: The Reconstruction of New Orleans. Both films give an inside...

I am an eye. A mechanical eye. I am the machine that reveals the world to you as only the machine can see it. - Dziga Vertov (Kino-Eye")These words, written in 1923 (only a year after Robert...

Six Blu-ray set. More women worked in film during it's first two decades than at any time since. Unfortunately, many early women filmmakers have been largely written out of film history, their...

A virtually unknown remake of M, Fritz Lang's seminal 1931 thriller, El vampiro negro (The Black Vampire) is a revisionist take on the tale by Argentine director Rom?n Vi?oly Barreto. Thanks to the...

Who is Charley Bowers? If you are asking this question, then you might not know who invented the non-slip banana peel and the unbreakable egg, or that cars could be hatched from eggs, or that mice...

Flying Clipper, directed by Hermann Leitner and featuring narration from Burl Ives, follows the untold adventures of a Swedish sailing ship and it's young crew as they navigate the Mediterranean Sea...

Tom Palazzolo is an Independent Film and Medium artist who makes documentary and narrative films. He has won awards at various European and American Film Festivals and received National and Regional...

If influence is the criterion for determining the significance of a film director, writes Russian film scholar Denise J. Youngblood, "then Fridrikh Ermler is perhaps the most important director in...