Tag Archives: silent films

The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Morgan R. Lewis

As noted in my review of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Lon Chaney’s performance and makeup in that film inspired Universal to begin a series of horror films that would become known popularly as the Universal Monsters series. Thus it … Continue reading →

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)

Posted on September 29, 2013 by Morgan R. Lewis

It’s a funny thing, but one of the most famous franchises in horror was the result of a film from outside the genre. The Hunchback of Notre Dame is not a horror movie, but merely a non-horrific period romance. Quasimodo … Continue reading →

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Three Short Films

Posted on August 28, 2013 by Morgan R. Lewis

For today, I’ve got another triplet of short films to review. All three shorts are in black and white, but in other respects, there’s an odd man out in a couple of ways. Two of the films are silents, but … Continue reading →

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Three Short Films

Posted on July 16, 2013 by Morgan R. Lewis

For today, another installment of short films. This time I’m looking at three shorts, and though they are all silent films, they aren’t all from the same era. In fact, there’s almost a hundred years between the oldest and the … Continue reading →

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Five Short Films

Posted on June 2, 2013 by Morgan R. Lewis

For today, I have another slew of short films to review. This time I’m tackling five of them at once, largely because a few of them are particularly short — though no less notable for that. There are two live-action … Continue reading →

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Brideless Groom / A Trip to the Moon / The Rounders

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Morgan R. Lewis

Got an assortment of short films to cover today. Rather than give each of them individual full-length reviews — I find it hard to justify giving a 20-minute film an entire day to itself — I thought I would cover … Continue reading →

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Sherlock, Jr.

Posted on May 12, 2013 by Morgan R. Lewis

The second part of my Buster Keaton double feature from the other day— and the intentional part — was the 1924 film Sherlock, Jr. It’s one of Keaton’s better-known films, and one of the more critically acclaimed ones. Like many … Continue reading →

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Our Hospitality

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Morgan R. Lewis

I didn’t actually watch Our Hospitality intentionally, at least not at first. I hadn’t even been aware of this 1923 Buster Keaton film (directed by Keaton himself with John G. Blystone) until I was about 20 minutes into it. This … Continue reading →

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The Rink

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Morgan R. Lewis

Maybe I’ve seen too many of Charlie Chaplin’s short films already, or maybe just too many of them in the relatively brief span of time I’ve been writing on this blog. On a technical level, they are all very well … Continue reading →

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Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Morgan R. Lewis

It’s been almost two months since I last checked out a Buster Keaton film, and I decided that my next one should be one of his major films — Steamboat Bill, Jr.. Directed by Charles Reisner, this silent film was … Continue reading →

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