New episode of NitrateVille Radio! Scott Eyman on his new, no-wire-hangers bio of Joan Crawford! Plus Dennis Bartok and Craig Rogers of the Deaf Crocodile label and rescuing obscurities! www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.ph...

New NitrateVille Radio episode! Our annual Top Ten in Physical Media of vintage films. Plus Danny Reid, co-author of Pre-Code Essentials. www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.ph...

New NitrateVille Radio episode! Restoring the 1926 Beau Geste! Plus the annual Pordenone silent film festival rooundup, and how to do a retrospective on someone everyone's seen: Charlie Chaplin

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Iconic Foods | Chicago Stories Chicago is one of the world’s great food cities, offering customers a seemingly inexhaustible feast, with everything from award-winning, one-of-a-kind, chef-driven restaurants to spectacular street fo...

I, and my footage of south side BBQ joints, will be in WTTW's Iconic Foods starting tonight at 8 pm on ch. 11. www.wttw.com/chicago-stor...

The NitrateVille Radio Htchcock episode! Steven C. Smith on Hitchcock and Herrmann's music, and Stephen Rebello on Strangers on a Train www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.ph...

New episode! The brief life of German talkie musical-comedy—subversive, Jewish, starring people like Peter Lorre and Hedy Lamarr, and banned by you know who. Plus the Cleveland Silent Film Festival and a children's book about the Gish sisters. www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.ph...

New Nitrateville Radio podcast: Richard Koszarski on the original film capitol, Fort Lee. Dennis Doros on Made in New Jersey, and re-restoring von Stroheim's scandalous Queen Kelly. And Lon Davis on Edward Everett Horton. www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.ph...

New reviews in the Old Movies on Blu-Ray thread: www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.ph...

New episode! The rise of young Buster Keaton, with Prof. Lisa Stein Haven. And Rob Byrne on a new film preservation organization with a long track record: San Francisco Film Preserve. www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.ph...

New NitrateVille Radio podcast! TCM's Czar of Noir Eddie Muller talks the dishy, dangerous dames of noir—like Marie Windsor. And Ben Model on how the Silent Film Universe worked. www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.ph...

Marion Davies in "THE CARDBOARD LOVER" (1928) The project: produce a new 2K restoration from a scan of archival 35mm, with a new score, for Blu-ray, DVD and DCP (homevid + shows).

Ben Model's Kickstarter for the hilarious THE CARDBOARD LOVER needs about 20 more pledges by Tuesday. You'll be glad you did! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sil...

New podcast! What women could do in the silent days, with
Mary Mallory. And what June Mathis did-- for Valentino and Hollywood, with Thomas J. Slater. www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.ph...

New NitrateVille Radio episode! A new program of nasty women, Dr. Rhea Combs on the alternative black Hollywood of Oscar Micheaux (now on video from Kino Lorber), and Katie Gee Salisbury on the luminous Chinese-American star of silents & talkies, Anna May Wong:

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Silent film organist Dennis Wolkowicz, known professionally as Jay Warren, passes away at 74 - Nadig Newspapers - Northwest Side Local Newspapers by BRIAN NADIG Silent Film Society of Chicago’s Dennis Wolkowicz loved silent films and paid tribute by learning to play the photoplay organ and keeping the memory of the movies alive. The lifelong No...

Sorry to hear of the passing of theater oirganist Jay Warren (Dennis Wolkowicz). He kept the spirit of silent film alive at countless venues in the Chicago area, saw him many times.

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New NitrateVille Radio episode! Steve Massa on a Roscoe Arbuckle Kickstarter and Noah Isenberg on Edgar Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins
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Win the complete works of Oscar Micheaux! It's time for NitrateVille's Watch That Movie Night contest, sponsored by Kino Lorber www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.ph...

A nice BTS still from 7th HEAVEN, with director Frank Borzage horsing around with character actor Albert Gran. An upgraded restoration opens MoMA's preservation festival, TO SAVE AND PROJECT, Thurs. Jan. 9. www.moma.org/calendar/fil...

New NitrateVille Radio episode! Dave Kehr on MoMA's To Save and Project (including Raskolnikow from 1923), Thomas Christensen on the Copenhagen Silent Film Festival, and the authors of Moguls: The Lives and Times of Hollywood Pioneers Nicholas and Joseph Schenck. www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.ph...

She produced The Bat Whispers-- could it be from that?

We are very sad to hear the passing of our very dear friend, author and historian, Donna Hill (@rudyfan.bsky.social).

Donna was very much our go to person when it came to the films of #RudolphValentino.

Donna recorded special intros for some of our #SilentFilm screenings about him in fact… (1/3)

That Mitchell and Webb Look - Evil Vicar YouTube video by mutant763

I love her on MItchell and Webb. Maybe my favorite performance of hers is as one of the clueless yuppies who meet the Evil Vicar
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You can tell SUPERMAN (2025) is a fantasy because the Daily Planet has a large staff. #FilmSky #Superman

BIG NEWS!!! After over a century of waiting, Léontine has *finally* been named TIME Magazine's Person of the Year for 2024!!!! (The previously announced pick was an incorrect rumor.) This is a big day for Léontine & for all of us at Cinema's First Nasty Women. Please join us in celebrating!!! 🎉🎞️🎶♥️

I heard it made another best of the year list!
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New NitrateVille Radio episode! The best releases of vintage films on shiny plastic discs from @WarnerArchive @Criterion @SonyPictures @KinoLorber @flickeralley, plus the UK's South West Silents and Film Noir UK and biographer Burt Kearns on Shemp!

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New episode! Pordenone festival report with Lokke Heiss, plus we talk to the man behind the retrospective on art director/backdrop painter Ben Carré. And Silents Synced makes Nosferatu rock! nitrateville.com/viewtopic.ph...