Watched and Learned: My Take on Films from Whenever and Wherever

This makes the fifth collaboration of Marlene Dietrich and director Josef von Sternberg that I've seen. Ordinarily, I wouldn't watch...

This movie has a lot of the same people involved as the next year's Shanghai Express . Maybe that's why it was recommended to me. At...

I hadn't seen a '30s picture in more than half a year. Incidentally, that one also depicted East Asians in a way that wouldn't ...

Since my last silent viewing was a year and a half ago , I decided to give this priority. It would also help me get a better sense of direct...

I had known next to nothing about Catherine the Great, and what I had learned of her was not from school. I couldn't have told you that ...