If you’ve seen the 1931 drama, An American Tragedy, you’ve no doubt noticed it looks like a relic from a forgotten civilization. First, it can be a bit stilted at times, coming as it does fro...
https://silverscreenings.org/2024/04/26/a-tragedy-of-self-obsession/
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) is a monumental film. It’s a production that moves on its own Steam, where characters’ decisions seem to matter very little. A character may find himself ...
https://silverscreenings.org/2023/12/28/unexpected-lives-ben-hur-ramon-novarro/
Warning: Contains Spoilers Sometimes, in a movie, you can spot the Set-Up in the first few scenes. But a good filmmaker knows this, and uses it to build tension. That’s what we thought when we ...
https://silverscreenings.org/2023/11/18/old-yeller-making-the-tough-choices-in-life/
We recently saw Anastasia (1956), an engaging story loosely based on actual events. Ingrid Bergman plays Anna Anderson, a troubled woman who claims to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, the youngest...
https://silverscreenings.org/2023/08/28/how-to-perpetrate-a-fraud/
Get this: Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel, Anna Karenina, has been adapted to the screen over 20(!) times. Tolstoy’s novel, depending on the publisher, usually runs 800+ pages, with lots of inter...
https://silverscreenings.org/2023/07/14/how-to-adapt-an-800-page-novel-to-the-screen/
One of the mandatory books we studied in high school was William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Our poor English teacher. She had a time of it, trying to engage us in Shakespearean language, hopi...
https://silverscreenings.org/2023/05/24/how-hollywood-taught-us-to-love-shakespeare/
Sometimes it’s hard to concentrate on a film when it’s set in a stunning location. We were mulling this over when we saw the western drama River of No Return (1954), starring Robert Mitchum, ...
https://silverscreenings.org/2023/04/14/that-time-marilyn-monroe-went-to-the-canadian-rockies/
Danny Kaye, we owe you an apology. We never were a fan of your films. We thought you were Too Much, and you seemed, to us, cloying in your efforts to be silly. Your boundless energy wore us out b...
https://silverscreenings.org/2023/03/01/dear-danny-kaye-we-take-it-back/
This post is reblogged from the fab Realweegiemidget Reviews, and it was originally published on October 19, 2022. When Gill suggested a blog post “swap”, we (yours truly) jumped at the chanc...
https://silverscreenings.org/2023/01/11/blog-swap-realweegiemidget-reviews-the-great-gatsby-1974/
Movies, especially modern movies, changed for us when we saw Casablanca (1942) the first time. That’s not to say we don’t like modern cinema; indeed, we were treated to some real gems in 2022...
https://silverscreenings.org/2022/12/28/how-casablanca-ruined-us-for-other-movies/