One of my favorite sounds at a silent film show is that of kids’ laughter over the laughs of the…
A number of personal, “tone-poem” slice-of-life films were made at the tail end of the silent era. The ones often…
A couple weeks ago TCM aired The Love Light with Mary Pickford, and there was some Twitter chatter I picked…
Honoring the Gag Work in a Silent Comedy Sometimes Involves a Doing a Little Homework and Then Sharing Your Findings…
Stretching to Two Reel Length was no Stretch For Marcel Perez What has always struck me as remarkable about Buster…
Buster Keaton’s Idea of “Impossible Gags” Take on ‘Popeye’ Proportions In the Tweedledum/Twede Comedy Shorts Stylistically, there are two things…
The injury humor of Johnny Knoxville, the Farrelly Brothers, and thousands of anonymous klutzes is nothing new — French and…
As you know, using recognizable music is a big no-no for me (unless it’s specified onscreen). And so, I was…
“Have you ever scored any new films, like regular movies, not silent ones?” It’s a question I get asked by…
I’ve found in numerous in Chaplin films that certaiin sequences and routines fit a musical beat and structure, that a…