All Episodes

131: Terry Chester Shulman on John Barrymore • Jason Ney on Richard Fleischer, Journeyman

130: Pamela Hutchinson on The Curse of Queen Kelly • Rob Farr Presenting Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew

129: Christine Leteux on Maurice Tourneur • David Meuel on Pre-Code William Wellman

128: Mike Gebert's The Chicago Way • J.B. Kaufman on Fantasia • Thomas Gladysz on Louise Brooks

127: Scott Eyman on Joan Crawford • Dennis Bartok and Craig Rogers of Deaf Crocodile

126: Top Ten in Physical Media 2025 • Pre-Code Essentials, with Danny Reid

Ep. 125: Restoring Beau Geste • 2025 Pordenone Festival Report • Six Degrees of Charlie Chaplin

124: Steven C. Smith on Hitchcock and Herrmann • Stephen Rebello on Strangers On a Train

Ep. 123: Cleveland Silent Film Festival • Lukas Foerster on Weimar Comedies • A Gish Sisters Book

122: Richard Koszarski and Dennis Doros on Made in New Jersey • Lon Davis on Edward Everett Horton

121: Rob Byrne on San Francisco Film Preserve • Lisa Stein Haven on Early Buster Keaton

120: Eddie Muller and the Dames of Noir • Ben Model on The Silent Film Universe

119: First Women of Hollywood • The Visionary June Mathis

118: Nasty Women Return! • Rhea Combs on Oscar Micheaux • Katie Gee Salisbury on Anna May Wong

117: Steve Massa on Roscoe Arbuckle • Noah Isenberg on Edgar Ulmer

116: Dave Kehr on To Save and Project • Copenhagen Silent Film Festival • Moguls

115: Top Ten in Physical Media 2024 • South West Silents & Film Noir UK • Burt Kearns on Shemp!

114: Silents Synced • Pordenone Festival Report 2024 • Thomas Walsh on Art Director Ben Carré

113: John Ford and the Cavalry • Francis Ford • The Brothers of the Bs

112: Seeing Napoleon • Rouben Mamoulian • Helen Morgan

111: Dave Glass on Monty Banks • Jeffrey L. Carrier on Patsy Ruth Miller

110: Vitagraph Comedies • Film Is Dead. Long Live Film! • Lon Davis Meets The Old Stars

109: Billy! Brackett and Wilder • Double Indemnity and the Rise of Noir

108: Bryony Dixon on Victorian Film • Death by Laughter • Tod Slaughter

107: Dan Streible on Orphan Films • Mike Mashon on the Changing Preservation Scene

106: Donald Bogle on Lena Horne • Restoring William S. Hart • Pamela Hutchinson on The Red Shoes

105: Top Ten in Physical Media 2023, with Bruce Calvert • Foster Hirsch on Movies in the 50s

104: Pordenone 2023 Festival Report • The "Only" Woman Animator • Scott Eyman on Chaplin vs. America

103: Northern Silents • Lisa Stein Haven on Chaplin at First National • Sarah Royal on Lucy

102: Rob Byrne on Foolish Wives • Eddie Muller on Kid and Cocktail Noir • Becoming Nick and Nora

101: Serge Bromberg on Laurel & Hardy Year One • Josh Mills on Ernie in Kovacsland

100: 100th Episode! with Michael Gebert and Ben Model • Susan Delson on Soundies

99: The Warner Bros. Episode, with Mark A. Vieira and Chris Yogerst

98: Robert Harris and James Mockoski on The Johnstown Flood • The Stoogeum's Gary Lassin

97: LOC Festival of Film & Sound • Two New Silent Film Kickstarters • William M. Drew on Pearl White

96: Academics and Vintage Film: Domitor • The Media Ecology Project • Victor Moore in Silent Comedy

95: Slapstick Festival in Bristol • A Norwegian Silent Comedian • John Stangeland on Aline MacMahon

94: The Lives of Beau Geste • The King of the Kongo • A Studio in Occupied France

93: Top Ten in Physical Media 2022 • Steve Massa with More Lame Brains and Lunatics

92: Margaret Dumont • Hispanics: Viva Hollywood! • Lawrence Tierney

91: Pordenone 2022 Festival Report • The Unknown Unknown • Lara Gabrielle on Marion Davies

90: How Elinor Glyn Changed Sex • How Hollywood Changed Going to the Movies

89: Cinema's First Nasty Women

88: Film Preservation with Richard Simonton • Jon Mirsalis on Rare Lon Chaney

87: Jeffrey Spivak on Busby Berkeley • Jack Theakston on New Abbott & Costello and 3-D Restorations

86: Scott McGee on Hollywood's Greatest Stunts • Ed Lorusso on a Wallace Reid DVD Kickstarter

85: TCM Film Festival Returns, with Nora Fiore • Movies as Art: Poster Collector Dwight Cleveland

84: Columbus Moving Picture Show • Comique Magazine • Julian David Stone, Author of "It's Alive!"

83: Ben Model on Raymond Griffith via Kickstarter • Eric Hoyt on Hollywood Trade Papers

82: Hippodrome Silent Film Festival in Scotland • David Crump on Fred Karno

81: Dana Stevens on Buster Keaton's Century • Farrah Nehme on Dames at MoMA • Found Emulsion

80: The Real Charlie Chaplin • Serge Bromberg on Julien Duvivier

79: Physical Media Top Ten of 2021 • Jaime Weinman on Looney Tunes

78: Scott Eyman on 20th Century Fox and Darryl F. Zanuck • Thomas Reeder on Century Comedies

77: 2021 Pordenone Festival Report • Rediscovering Ellen Richter • Media History Digital Library

76: Vim Kickstarter • Becoming Carole Lombard • The Magnificent Jane Russell

75: Eddie Muller on Film Noir's Dark City • Silent Movie Day is September 29

74: Edward Everett Horton Comedies • Andrew Erish on Vitagraph • Stephen Horne on Silent Sirens

73: Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna, and Online • Kit Parker's 50 Years in Film

72: Silent Film Showings Are Back! • Lisa Stein Haven on Max Linder

71: Preserving Paramount with Andrea Kalas • Kat Ellinger on Mae West

70: Searching for Shoulder Arms • Lois Weber's Sensation Seekers • Billy Wilder, Newspaperman

69: Tyrone Power • Mary Astor • The Classic Film Collective

68: A Year of The Silent Comedy Watch Party • William Wellman Jr. on His Father Wild Bill

67: Legendary Jungle Hoax Film Ingagi • Stars Under the Nazis

66: The Woman Behind MGM's Throne • Film Noir Fashion

65: Bruce Goldstein on The Naked City • Tommy Jose Stathes • Arnold Leibovit on George Pal

64: Physical Media Top Ten of 2020 • Philippe Garnier on Scoundrels, Spitballers and Screenwriters

63: Allen Lewis Rickman on Yiddish Cinema • Ned Thanhouser on the Thanhouser Studio

62: Scott Eyman on Cary Grant • Fright Favorites Author David J. Skal

61: Hollywood Hates Hitler! • Music For a City Without Jews • Hard Luck Ladies

60: Virtual Pordenone • Finding a Lost Film • Dennis James' Fall Tour

59: Reginald Denny and Anthony Slide

58: A Fine Mess of Laurel & Hardy, With Randy Skretvedt

57: Author Steven C. Smith on Max Steiner • Larry Edmunds Bookshop • Niles Film Museum

56: Hitchcock's Phantom Lady • 1930s Silent Sci-Fi Home Movie • Summer Reading Challenge

55: Restoring Mystery of the Wax Museum • William Beaudine, Auteur

54: Prof. Jeanine Basinger on The Movie Musical!

53: Donna Rifkind on Salka Viertel • Ben Model on Accompanying Silents Online

52: Bret Wood on the Golden Age of Exploitation Pictures • Michael Atkinson on Karel Zeman

51: Author Sydney Ladensohn Stern on The Brothers Mankiewicz • Grave Markers for Forgotten Stars

50: 2019 Memoriam for Vintage Film People • Steve Massa on Roscoe Arbuckle, Filmmaker

49: Africa Screams Kickstarter • Max Steiner Westerns • The Costellos, Film's First Family

48: Physical Media Top Ten of 2019, With Bruce Calvert • The Music Box House Organist Dennis Scott

47: MoMA Curator Anne Morra on Iris Barry • Lokke Heiss on Pordenone 2019

46: J.B. Kaufman on Fun and Fancy Free • Donna Hill on Valentino • David Pierce on Uncle Tom's Cabin

45: Ken Winokur of The Alloy Orchestra • 2019 Stummfilmtage Bonn

44: Kino Lorber Episode, with Bret Wood and Matt Barry • Kat Ellinger on Peter Pan

43: Cinerama's Adventures, With Dave Strohmaier

42: Mike Kaplan on Lillian Gish and the BGSU Controversy • Tracey Goessel on The Biograph Project

41: John Soister on Paul Leni • Josh Mills on Ernie Kovacs • Douglas MacLean Kickstarter

40: Pre-Code Movies with Mark A. Vieira, author of Forbidden Hollywood

39: 2019 TCM Film Festival • Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures

38: San Francisco Silent Film Festival • Victoria Riskin on Fay Wray and Robert Riskin

37: Restoring in 4K: Becky Sharp and Detour

36: Remembering Ron Hutchinson • John Bengtson on Where Silent Comedy Was Shot

35: Serge Bromberg on Méliès and More

34: The Ancient Law, with musicians Donald Sosin and Alicia Svigals

33: Author Gwenda Young on Forgotten Master Clarence Brown

32: Pioneering Women Filmmakers, with Shelley Stamp • George Willeman of LOC