A true tour de force performance from Lillian Gish in one of DW Griffiths best two-reel films. Welcome to Silent Film Sunday! This week we are in for a short two-reel (under 25-minute film) as I was on a bit of a deep dive of trying to watch all of
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Highest Grossing Films: 1920 Way Down East
This week should have been 1919. But alas the highest-grossing film of 1919 The Miracle Man has been lost to us and only 2 minutes of footage remains. It is a bit difficult to review that. So we have had to move on to 1920 and we are now officially
Reviewing the highest-grossing film of every year: 1915 – The Birth of a Nation
When I had the intention of writing a review of the highest-grossing films of the year, I thought that it would be a fun exercise to look at films from over 100 years ago and also a pretty lengthy feature. It all seemed grand, and then I followed through with