Added review of the
Kino Lorber
Blu-ray Disc edition of
Annie Laurie (1927)
Added review of the
Kino Lorber
Blu-ray Disc edition of
Madame Dubarry (1919)
Added review of the
Eureka Entertainment
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of The Cat and the Canary (1927)
Added review of the
Kino Lorber
Blu-ray Disc edition of
The Road to Ruin (1928)
Added review of the
Undercrank Productions
Blu-ray Disc edition of
The Craving (1918)
Added review of the
Undercrank Productions
Blu-ray Disc collection
Accidentally Preserved, Volume 5 (1925-1929)
Added review of the
Milestone Films
Blu-ray Disc edition of
Piccadilly (1929)
Added review of the
Kino Lorber
Blu-ray Disc edition of
Oh! Doctor! (1925)
Added review of the
Cohen Film Collection
Blu-ray Disc edition of
Robin Hood (1922)
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Cohen Film Collection
Blu-ray Disc edition of
The Black Pirate (1926)
Added review of the
Milestone Films
Blu-ray Disc edition of
The Spanish Dancer (1923)
Added review of the
Kino Classics
Blu-ray Disc edition of
Poker Faces (1926)
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Undercrank Productions
Blu-ray Disc edition of
You’d Be Surprised (1926)
Added review of the
VCI Entertainment
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edition of
Johanna Enlists (1918)
Added review of the
Kino Classics
Blu-ray Disc edition of
Michael (1924)
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Undercrank Productions
Blu-ray Disc edition of
The Big Diamond Robbery (1929)
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Flicker Alley
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Foolish Wives (1922)
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Kino Classics
Blu-ray Disc edition of
Where the North Begins (1923)
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Kino Classics
Blu-ray Disc edition of
Sumurun (1920)
Added review of the
Undercrank Productions
Blu-ray Disc edition of
Paths to Paradise (1925)
Added review of the
Kino Classics
Blu-ray Disc edition of
The Wildcat (1921)
Added review of the
Kino Classics
Blu-ray Disc edition of
Asphalt (1929)
Added review of the
Eureka Entertainment
4K Ultra HD edition of
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
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 Kino Lorber (USA) has announced their UltraHD / Blu-ray Disc edition of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) mastered at 4K high-resolution from the 2014 restoration of the film conducted by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung. / The film is accompanied by two optional music scores: an orchestral score by Jeff Beal, and a modern score by Paul D. Miller. / Supplemental material includes audio commentary by composer Jeff Beal; documentary “Caligari: How Horror Came to the Cinema” (52 minutes, BD only); and a restoration demonstration featurette (BD only). The dual-format edition will be available 22 October 2024. |
 The Criterion Collection (USA) has announced their Blu-ray Disc and DVD editions of G.W. Pabst’s Pandora’s Box (1929), starring Louise Brooks and Fritz Kortner, mastered from a 2K high-definition digital restoration of the film. / The film is accompanied by four optional music scores by Gillian Anderson, Dimitar Pentchev, Peer Raben and Stéphan Oliva. / Supplemental material includes audio commentary by Thomas Elsaesser and Mary Ann Doane; two documentaries, Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu (1998) and Lulu in Berlin (1971); an interview with Richard Leacock; an interview with Michael Pabst; and an insert booklet featuring an essay by critic J. Hoberman, and notes on the music scores. The editions will be available 15 October 2024. |
 Milestone Films (USA) has announced their Blu-ray Disc edition of The Dragon Painter (1919), starring Sessue Hayakawa and Tsuru Aoki, mastered from a 4K high-resolution scan produced by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, Eye Film Instituut Nederland and George Eastman Museum of the 1988 AFI restoration with additional footage from a 35mm print. / The film is accompanied by two optional music scores composed and performed by Mas Koga and Makia Matsumura. / Supplemental material includes two Hayakawa features, His Birthright (1918) and The Man Beneath (1919); and the featurette “Reconstructing The Dragon Painter” (66 minutes). The disc will be available 24 September 2024 |
 Kino Lorber (USA) has released their Blu-ray Disc edition of Annie Laurie (1918), starring Lillian Gish and Norman Kerry, mastered at 4K high-resolution from an archival 35mm print held by the Library of Congress that includes the original Technicolor sequences. / The film is accompanied by a music score composed, adapted, orchestrated and conducted by Robert Israel, and performed by a 30-piece orchestra. / Supplemental material includes an audio commentary by film historian Anthony Slide. |
 Kino Lorber (USA) has released their Blu-ray Disc edition of The Pace That Kills (1928) mastered at 4K high-resolution from archival 35mm elements preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive and the Library of Congress. / The film is accompanied by a music score. / Supplemental material includes the 1935 remake of The Pace That Kills also known as The Cocaine Fiends; audio commentary for The Pace That Kills by film historian Anthony Slide; audio commentary for The Cocaine Fiends by Eric Schaefer, author of Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!: A History of Exploitation Films; the 1973 rerelease trailer for The Cocaine Fiends; and a gallery of exploitation trailers. |
 Undercrank Productions (USA) has released their Blu-ray Disc and DVD editions of The Craving (1918) starring Francis Ford and Mae Gaston that has been mastered from a 35mm nitrate print held by Eye Film Instituut Nederland. / The film is accompanied by a music score composed and performed on piano by Ben Model. / Supplemental material includes three Ford short films; an excerpt from Screen Snapshots (1920) featuring Ford; and the mini-documentary Francis Ford, Pioneering Director and Actor of Early American Cinema (2023) directed by Kathryn Fuller-Seeley and David Granberry. |
 Kino Lorber (USA) has released their Blu-ray Disc edition of Ernst Lubitsch’s Carmen (1918) starring Pola Negri and Harry Liedtke that has been mastered from archival film elements. / The film is accompanied by a music score composed by Tobias Schwenke, performed by the orchestral ensemble Kontraste. / Supplemental material includes audio commentary by film historian Anthony Slide; and a featurette on the film’s restoration.
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 Kino Lorber (USA) has released their Blu-ray Disc edition of Ernst Lubitsch’s Anna Boleyn (1920) starring Emil Jannings and Henny Porten that has been mastered from archival film elements. / The film is accompanied by a music score composed and performed by Javier Perez de Azpeitia. / Supplemental material includes includes the documentary Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin (2006).
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 Kino Lorber (USA) has released their Blu-ray Disc collection of Vitagraph Comedies (1907-1922) that has been mastered from archival film elements. Includes films with John Bunny, Larry Semon, Sidney Drew and others. / The films are accompanied by music scores compiled, composed and performed by various musicians. / Supplemental material includes audio commentaries by film historian Anthony Slide; and interviews with curator Rob Stone, archivists Lynanne Schweighofer and Geo. Willeman, and film historian Rob Farr.
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 The Criterion Collection (USA) has released their double-feature Blu-ray Disc edition of Yasujirô Ozu’s A Story of Floating Weeds (1934). / The film is accompanied by a music score composed and performed by Donald Sosin. / Supplemental material includes audio commentary for A Story of Floating Weeds by Japanese-film historian Donald Richie; Ozu’s color remake Floating Weeds (1959) in a gorgeous 4K digital restoration and audio commentary by film critic Roger Ebert; and an insert booklet with notes on the films by Donald Richie.
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 Kino Lorber (USA) has released their Blu-ray Disc edition of the exploitation drama The Road to Ruin (1928). The edition has been mastered from archival 35mm print elements provided by Something Weird Video. the Sonney Amusement Enterprises Film Collection and UCLA Film and Television Archive. / The film is accompanied by a music score by Andrew Earle Simpson. / Supplemental material includes audio commentary by film historian Anthony Slide; the 1934 sound remake of the film; and a gallery of exploitation film trailers.
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 Eureka Entertainment (England) has released their Blu-ray Disc edition prepared in HD from the original negative. / The film is presented with a music score by Robert Israel, compiled and edited by Gillian B. Anderson, based on the original music cue sheets. / Supplemental material includes two audio commentaries; a video essay by David Cairns and Fiona Watson; interviews with Pamela Hutchinson and Phuong Le; extracts from John Willard’s original play; and an insert booklet with writings by Richard Combs, Craig Ian Mann and Imogen Sara Smith.
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 Warner Home Video (USA) has released their Blu-ray Disc double-feature edition of The Boob (1926) starring Gertrude Olmstead and George K. Arthur, and Why Be Good? (1929) starring Colleen Moore and Neil Hamilton. / The Boob is accompanied by a custom music score, and Why Be Good? is accompanied by the film’s original Vitaphone soundtrack.
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 Kino Lorber (USA) has released their Blu-ray Disc edition of the Ernst Lubitsch’s historical drama Madame Dubarry (1919) starring Pola Negri and Emil Jannings, with Harry Liedtke, Eduard von Winterstein, Reinhold Schünzel, Else Berna, Fred Immler, Gustav Czimeg and Karl Platen. / The film is accompanied by a custom music score. / Supplementary material includes audio commentary by author and film historian Joseph McBride, author of How Did Lubitsch Do It?.
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 Edition Filmmuseum (Germany) has released their DVD edition of Mister Radio (1924) directed by Nunzio Malasomma and starring Agnes Nero, Luciano Albertini, Magnus Stifter, Evi Eva, Fred Immler, Anna Gorilowa, Robert Scholz, Angelo Rossi and Mario Fossati. / The film is accompanied by a music score by Bernd Thewes. / Supplemental material includes two additional films accompanied with music scores by Elaine Loebenstein; and an insert booklet with essays by Oliver Hanley, Anke Mebold, Janneke van Dalen and Nadja Ičarov.
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 VCI Entertainment (USA) has released their Blu-ray Disc / DVD edition of Stella Maris (1929) directed by Marshall Neilan and starring Mary Pickford, with Conway Tearle, Marcia Manon, Ida Waterman, Herbert Standing and Josephine Crowell. Two source prints were digitally cleaned and conflated to present the most-complete, best-looking version of the film possible. / The film is accompanied by a music score by the Graves Brothers. / Supplemental material includes audio commentary by film historian Marc Wanamaker, a stills gallery, and notes on the film in the insert booklet.
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 Cohen Film Collection (USA) has released their Blu-ray Disc edition of two Buster Keaton films, Three Ages (1923) starring Keaton, Margaret Leahy, Wallace Beery and Joe Roberts, and Our Hospitality (1923) starring Keaton, Natalie Talmadge, Joe Roberts, Francis X. Bushman Jr. and Joe Keaton. Multiple film prints were utilized for the digital restoration of the two films.
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 Eureka Entertainment (England) has released their Blu-ray Disc limited edition of G.W. Pabst’s Pandora’s Box (1929) starring Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner and Francis Lederer. / The film is accompanied by an orchestral music score by Peer Raben. / Supplemental material includes new audio commentary by critic Pamela Hutchinson; a visual appreciation by author and critic Kat Ellinger; new video essays by David Cairns and Fiona Watson; stills gallery; 60-page book with essays by critics Alexandra Heller Nicholas, Imogen Sara Smith and Richard Combs. / North American collectors will need a region-free Blu-ray Disc player to view this Blu-ray Disc edition limited to 3000 copies.
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 The Criterion Collection (USA) has released their two-disc boxset Tod Browning’s Sideshow Shockers (1925-1932), including two silent era Browning films: a 2K digital restoration of The Mystic (1925) starring Aileen Pringle and Conway Tearle, and a 2K digital reconstruction and restoration of The Unknown (1927) starring Lon Chaney and Joan Crawford, and a 2K digital restoration of the early sound film cult classic Freaks (1932). / The silent films are accompanied by music scores composed and performed by Philip Carli and Dean Hurley. / Supplementary material includes audio commentary by film historian David J. Skal for The Unknown and Freaks, a documentary and other information on Freaks, and an essay by Farran Smith Nehme.
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 The Film Preserve and The Maltese Film Works (USA) have released their Blu-ray Disc edition of The Johnstown Flood (1929), starring George O’Brien and Janet Gaynor, with Florence Gilbert, Anders Randolf, Paul Nicholson, Paul Panzer, George Harris, Max Davidson, and (reputedly) appearances as extras by Carole Lombard, Gary Cooper and Clark Gable. / The disc includes anaglypic (red/green) stereoscopic glasses to view 3D photos in the supplemental section.
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 Cohen Film Collection (USA) has released their Blu-ray Disc edition of a Douglas Fairbanks double feature: The Three Musketeers (1921) with Fairbanks, George Siegmann, Eugene Pallette, Leon Bary, Nigel de Brulier, Marguerite De La Motte, Barbara La Marr and Adolphe Menjou, and The Iron Mask (1929) with Fairbanks, George Siegmann, Eugene Pallette, Leon Bary, Nigel de Brulier, Marguerite De La Motte, Dorothy Revier and Ulrich Haupt. Both films have been digitally restored.
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 Milestone Films (USA) has released their Blu-ray Disc edition of E.A. Dupont’s Piccadilly (1929), starring Gilda Gray and Anna May Wong, with Jameson Thomas, Cyril Ritchard, and a young Charles Laughton. / The film is accompanied by a music score composed and performed by Neil Brand. / Supplemental material includes an audio commentary by film historian Farran Smith Nehme; and the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival panel, “Dangerous to Know: The Career and Legacy of Anna May Wong,” moderated by B. Ruby Rich.
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 Milestone Films (USA) have released their Blu-ray Disc edition of The Spanish Dancer (1923) starring Pola Negri and Antonio Moreno, with Wallace Beery, Kathlyn Williams, Gareth Hughes and Adolphe Menjou. / The film is accompanied by a music score composed and performed by Bill Ware and a number of musicians. / Supplementary material includes audio commentary by author Scott Eyman with dance historican Naima Prevots, and an interview with composer Bill Ware.
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