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Videophiled Classic: Chaplin at Mutual and 25 Years of Mack Sennett
Flicker Alley releases two more collections of classic silent comedies. Chaplin’s Mutual Comedies 1916-1917 (Flicker Alley, Blu-ray+DVD) collects the greatest run of comedy shorts in Chaplin’s career...
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Silents Please!: ‘The House of Mystery’ from Flicker Alley
Flicker Alley The House of Mystery (La Maison du Mystère) (Flicker Alley, DVD) – Serials—the adventure cliffhangers what would play out in theaters before the main feature at a chapter a week—are...
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Videophiled Classics: Dziga Vertov – ‘The Man with the Movie Camera’
Flicker Alley Dziga Vertov: The Man with the Movie Camera and Other Newly-Restored Works (Flicker Alley, Blu-ray) presents four features (and one newsreel short) by the great Soviet filmmaker, all...
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Gift Sets: ‘Back to the Future,’‘Die Hard,’ W.C. Fields, and the American...
Back to the Future: 30th Anniversary Trilogy (Universal, Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, DVD) – “The future is whatever you make it, so make it a good one.” October 21, 2015, is a date foretold… in Back to the...
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‘Chaplin’s Essanay Comedies’ and the Quay Brothers on Blu-ray
Flicker Alley Chaplin’s Essanay Comedies (Flicker Alley, Blu-ray+DVD) – In 1914 Charlie Chaplin, the most famous comic performer in Mack Sennett’s Keystone Studios, was lured away by Essanay Studios...
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Blu-ray International: ‘L’Inhumaine’ from France, two Fritz Lang silent...
The 1923 French feature L’Inhumaine (Flicker Alley, Blu-ray), which translates to The Inhuman Woman, is not exactly about a femme fatale, though singer and social diva Claire Lescot (played by...
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Blu-ray: ‘Woman on the Run’ and ‘Too Late for Tears’ restored
The Film Noir Foundation, creators of the San Francisco-based Noir City Film Festival and its companion travelling version, expanded its purpose a few years ago to raise money to restore orphaned...
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Best Blu-ray & DVD releases of 2016
We’ve been hearing people pronounce the death of DVD and Blu-ray for years now. You’d never know it from the astonishing wealth of Blu-ray debuts, restored movies, and lovingly-produced special...
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Blu-ray: The silent horror of ‘Behind the Door’ restored
Behind the Door (1919) (Flicker Alley, Blu-ray+DVD) was for decades a film known by reputation only. A good film, yes, but more than that a notorious one, for what lay behind the door was… No spoilers...
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Silents Please: the original 1925 ‘The Lost World’ and Murnau’s ‘The Last...
Two silent movie classics come to Blu-ray in new, restored editions. The Lost World (Flicker Alley, Blu-ray) The Last Laugh (Kino Classics, Blu-ray, DVD) Flicker Alley Every larger than life creature...
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