Archive for tag: Victor Sjostrom

DVD/Blu-ray: ‘The Phantom Carriage’

9 October, 2011 (07:20) | Blu-ray, by Sean Axmaker, DVD, Film Reviews, Silent Cinema | By: Sean Axmaker

Whoever dies at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve is doomed to drive Death’s carriage for the next year, collecting the souls that pass on and carrying them to the afterlife. This bit of folklore is the narrative conceit on which The Phantom Carriage rests. It opens as a supernatural tale — part [...]

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Silents Please! The San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2009 (Part 2)

27 July, 2009 (17:16) | by Sean Axmaker, Film Festivals, Silent Cinema | By: Sean Axmaker

Bardelys the Magnificent The most anticipated event at any silent film festival is the premiere of a “lost” film, rediscovered and restored. Bardelys the Magnificent, the 1926 swashbuckler starring John Gilbert and directed by King Vidor, was long thought lost for good but for a brief glimpse in Vidor’s Show People. Then a single surviving [...]

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