National Silent Movie Day: TCM will be presenting four features released a century ago, including Erich von Stroheim’s Greed and the premiere of The Enchanted Cottage.
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William Powell movies: TCM’s ‘Summer Under the Stars’ series will present 13 titles, most of them from his MGM phase, including The Thin Man and Love Crazy.
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How to Be a Latin Lover: Ricardo Cortez leading ladies and marriage to drug-addicted Hollywood star plus directing Dalton Trumbo socially conscious drama.
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Ben-Hur movie: Christian epic was biggest and most expensive Blockbuster until Gone with the Wind. Mexican Ramon Novarro played Jewish hero.
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The San Francisco Silent Film Festival program ‘Amazing Tales from the Archives’ discussed the discovery of the 1916 Sherlock Holmes.
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Ben-Hur 1925: Fast & Furious epic to be screened at historic theater. Costliest production and biggest worldwide box-office hit til GWTW.
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Lady Windermere’s Fan (movie 1925): Ernst Lubitsch’s classy Oscar Wilde adaptation stars a fantastic Irene Rich. Ronald Colman costars.
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (movie 1925): Ramon Novarro delivers a gripping performance in Fred Niblo’s still impressive silent era mega-blockbuster.
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The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson and May McAvoy. Zero chemistry, but film history all the same. Though hardly a cinematic masterpiece – or even a good film, for that matter …
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Baseball films on DVD: From Babe Ruth to Colleen Moore Kino’s “Reel Baseball – 1899–1926” two-disc set has become one of that DVD distributor’s biggest sellers in their silent film …
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Jessie Matthews in the musical First a Girl: Victor Victoria precursor. The bfi is currently presenting a Jessie Matthews retrospective, which ends on March 11. From Richard Stirling’s bfi article: “Few stories …
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Ben-Hur DVD includes William Wyler’s Oscar-winning 1959 blockbuster and Fred Niblo’s superior 1925 version. Charlton Heston and Ramon Novarro star.