Essential Readings: “The Greatest Filmmaker Ever” or Just “Eye-Candy”?
Dziga Vertov is unquestionably one of the great innovators of cinema - but one scholar wonders if he should be more.
View ArticleWonders Beyond Sound: Favorite Silent Films, Continued
The best of the best, from Vertov to "Les Vampires."
View ArticleKeyframe Special Series: The Silent Artists
Keyframe dedicates this week to the directors and actors who helped turn the medium of film into a worldwide cultural phenomenon and a new form of art.
View ArticleOnly Words? Not this ‘UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE’
Sam Green uses visual poetry and other universal languages—music, gesture, and movement—to tell the story of Esperanto.
View ArticleSilents Scream with Alloy Orchestra’s Scores
Alloy Orchestra, forged in Boston’s post-punk club scene, travels the world with wildly original accompaniments to revivify unique silent films.
View ArticleVideo: Two Selections for the Sight & Sound Greatest Films Poll
Separated by 70 years, MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA and OUTER SPACE share a belief in the limitless possibilities of film.
View ArticleRe-birth of a Film Nation
Avant-garde films advance up the charts in Sight & Sound's 'Greatest Films of All Time' poll.
View ArticleThe Film 100: Sergei Eisenstein, no. 16
The overwhelming curiosity over montage forced Sergei Eisenstein to articulate his filmmaking aesthetic to the world, and he became known as the greatest thinker among film theorists.
View ArticleIt’s All True, in Different Ways
Experimental and traditional approaches meet at the Brazilian documentary film festival It's All True.
View ArticleThe Greatest Silent Films You’ve Never Heard Of
Neglected beauties rise out of the archival mists to complicate the silent film canon.
View ArticleSkin Deep and Deeper
Personal documentary filmmaker Broderick Fox talks identity, technology, body art and aesthetic legacies.
View ArticleDocumentary Unbound: Chris Marker and Friends
TO CHRIS MARKER, AN UNSENT LETTER recalls the elusive filmmaker.
View ArticleThe World’s Greatest Docs, All in One Video
Watch the thirty greatest documentaries of all time in six minutes.
View ArticleDario Argento: ‘I’m fascinated by recollection.’
'We are slave of our culture, our readings, our thoughts.'
View ArticleOpening DOORS with Michele De Angelis
'I think that horror coming from normality is much more horrifying than monsters or robots.'
View ArticleThe Dialectics of Humor: Russian Silent Comedy
Join 'The Party' or join the party? On the lighter side of early Soviet cinema.
View ArticleDaily | Film Theory, aniki, Godard
Plus Martin Scorsese on three of his favorite actresses.
View ArticleSoviet Saga: DZIGA AND HIS BROTHERS
Between them, the three Kaufman siblings had a remarkable impact on film history.
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