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# Silent Film

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  • Silent Movie (1976)

    'Silent Movie' is an outrageous and underrated Mel Brooks classic

    Before Michel Hazanavicius tackled the world of silent movies with his Oscar-winning film The Artist, the most notable attempt of this once-great genre was tackled by one of the geniuses of film.The name of the genius: Mel...

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  • The Artist Film Review

    The Artist is written and directed by Michael Hazanavicius and stars Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo. The film concentrates on George Valentin (Dujardin) a Hollywood silent film star who struggles with the thought that ‘talkies’ will take...

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  • The Selling Out of The American Dream

    In my previous article, I wrote of a new "self" unique to America that was promoted worldwide by American filmmaking. This new “self” had already appeared, of course, in American literature. Examples are The American Adam...

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