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  Well now, it’s been a busy week at PCF headquarters. We’re still trying to work out the kinks of the new site and the new email system and the new… well everything. And all the while, planning for an outrageous silent film weekend with two screenings on the same day! That&# read more

  Well now, it’s been a busy week at PCF headquarters. We’re still trying to work out the kinks of the new site and the new email system and the new… well everything. And all the while, planning for an outrageous silent film weekend with two screenings on the same day! That&# read more

  Caught in a Cabaret, starring Charlie Chaplin and directed by comedic actress extraordinaire Mabel Normand was released on April 27, 1914.   Caught in a Cabaretcharlie chaplinMabel Normandonline moive read more

  I often find it difficult to review documentaries, especially reviewing them very soon after watching. It takes some time to parse out the emotional impact of a really good documentary. The World Before Her, screening as part of Hot Docs 2012, is a perfect example. This film is odd and distu read more

  Harold Lloyd’s Grandma’s Boy was released April 27, 1922. Watch the complete movie on YouTube. Grandma's Boyharold lloydonline movies read more

  This weekend in Toronto is either a silent film fan’s greatest fantasy or her worst nightmare. Why? There’s not one, but two silent film screenings – on the same day! The next installment of The Revue’s Silent Sundays is F.W. Murnau’s The Last Laugh. Some (me) w read more

Today is the birthday of William Desmond Taylor, silent film actor and director. Though he acted in or directed over 80 silent films (most considered lost), Taylor is most famous for being rather mysteriously murdered. The investigation of his murder, and the accompanying salacious media frenzy, fa read more

  This weekend in Toronto is either a silent film fan’s greatest fantasy or her worst nightmare. Why? There’s not one, but two silent film screenings – on the same day! The next installment of The Revue’s Silent Sundays is F.W. Murnau’s The Last Laugh. Some (me) w read more

This documentary is kinda depressing. I always find watching docs about what Chinese athletes have to do a huge bummer, but when it’s boxing and not gymnastics or the like, then it’s a very brutal bummer. But the time that I’ve spent dwelling on this doc since I watched it and wr read more

This documentary is kinda depressing. I always find watching docs about what Chinese athletes have to do a huge bummer, but when it’s boxing and not gymnastics or the like, then it’s a very brutal bummer. But the time that I’ve spent dwelling on this doc since I watched it and wr read more

  Thanks to The Cinementals, I found this charming little time-lapse video of someone drawing Charlie Chaplin. Really, it brightened my day and hopefully it will brighten yours, too. Now I’m off for a nap, a cupcake, and a view of The Rink – not necessarily in that order. read more

Today is the anniversary of the first projected movie screening in the United States. Edison’s Vitascope debuted on April 23, 1896 at Koster and Bial’s Music Hall in New York City with none other than one Mr. Edwin S.Porter manning the machine. The European’s had already projected read more

Today is the anniversary of the first projected movie screening in the United States. Edison’s Vitascope debuted on April 23, 1896 at Koster and Bial’s Music Hall in New York City with none other than one Mr. Edwin S.Porter manning the machine. The European’s had already projected read more

  Life of an American Fireman is a short, silent film Edwin S. Porter made for the Edison Manufacturing Company. It was shot late in 1902 and distributed early in 1903. One of the earliest American narrative films, it depicts the rescue of a woman and child from a burning building, in a total read more

Today is Edwin S. Porter’s birthday. So while thinking about sending a b-day shout out to Mr. Porter, I started thinking about where Porter fits in the grand scheme of cinema. While it’s in no way accurate to say he’s “forgotten,” he seems a bit lost in the wash of oth read more

Edwin S. Porter’s Jack and the Beanstalk (1902). Edison Manufacturing CompanyEdwin S. PorterJack and the Beanstalk read more

  Life of an American Fireman is a short, silent film Edwin S. Porter made for the Edison Manufacturing Company. It was shot late in 1902 and distributed early in 1903. One of the earliest American narrative films, it depicts the rescue of a woman and child from a burning building, in a total read more

Edwin S. Porter’s seminal The Great Train Robbery, made for the Edison Manufacturing Company in 1903. This one was a game changer. Watch to find out why. Edison Manufacturing CompanyEdwin S. PorterThe Great Train Robbery read more

Edwin S. Porter’s film adaptation of Windsor McKay’s newspaper strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend from 1906. This is not considered a true animated film but rather an early exercise in trick photography. Dreams of Rarebit FiendEdison Manufacturing CompanyEdwin S. Porter read more

Today is Edwin S. Porter’s birthday. So while thinking about sending a b-day shout out to Mr. Porter, I started thinking about where Porter fits in the grand scheme of cinema. While it’s in no way accurate to say he’s “forgotten,” he seems a bit lost in the wash of oth read more