An oddly anachronistic intertitle from Max Linder’s THE THREE MUST-GET-THERES, which, as its title strongly hints, is a somewhat lame Fairbanks spoof. But there are compensations — Linder … more →
shadowplaygarbonza wrote 3 months ago: We are approaching, next year, 2010, the hundredth anniversary of movie stars. Motion picture photog … more →
dcairns wrote 3 months ago: An oddly anachronistic intertitle from Max Linder’s THE THREE MUST-GET-THERES, which, as its t … more →
dcairns wrote 11 months ago: Benjamin Christensen in HAXAN gives himself the ultimate directorial walk-on, knocking Hitchcock int … more →
dcairns wrote 1 year ago: Part 3 of Abel Gance’s AU SECOURS! See previous posts for parts 1 and 2. Silent comedy was nev … more →
dcairns wrote 1 year ago: One year on! Shadowplay first hit the cyber-streets on December 1st, 2007. We’ve climbed from … more →
dcairns wrote 1 year ago: My last post of Shadowplay Year One! Comic redundancy in Abel Gance’s AU SECOURS! (HELP!), sta … more →
dcairns wrote 1 year ago: The outstanding Max Linder in BE MY WIFE (1921). In order to impress his girlfriend and her unsympat … more →
garbonza wrote 2 years ago: We seldom if ever give a thought to movie stars of a hundred years ago, partly because most people t … more →