03
May
Recommended The Alice Howell Collection: From where we are now, it\\\'s weird to think of these silent comedies as being filmed and released 25 to 35 years after the advent of motion pictures. I mean, with the first true examples of \\\'film\\\' coming from the mid-1880s, you\\\\\\\'d think that by 1914 a picture like Shot in the Excitement, featuring early film comedienne Alice Howell, would look more sophisticated. Aah, but those were the olden days, when horse-drawn carriages still regularly shared the road with motor cars. This 2-disc collection of silent motion picture comedies, curated by Steve Massa and Ben…
22
Apr
Be Natural is both a tribute and a detective story, tracing the circumstances by which pioneer filmmaker Alice Guy-Blache faded from memory and the path toward her reclamation.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Apr 19, 2019
