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Reading Room — Kino-polis

Reading Room

Essays, interviews, lectures and archives on the films of the silent and early sound eras. Read about a film, then watch it.

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Essay
Movies Silently Review ★★★★½ (opens in a new tab)
On Aelita: Queen of Mars
Essay
Movies Silently Review ★★★★½ (opens in a new tab)
On Chess Fever
Essay
Movies Silently Review ★★★★½ (opens in a new tab)
On The Forty-First
Essay
Movies Silently Review ★★★★½ (opens in a new tab)
On The Bargain
Essay
Movies Silently Review ★★★★½ (opens in a new tab)
On The Big Swallow
Essay
Movies Silently Review ★★★★½ (opens in a new tab)
On Stella Maris
Essay
Movies Silently Review ★★★★★ (opens in a new tab)
On Hell's Hinges
Distributor
Flicker Alley - FUSION SERIES (BLU-RAY) (opens in a new tab)
On He Who Gets Slapped
Website
Hark! How Harold’s Angels Sing (opens in a new tab)
On Girl Shy
Website
Bob Dylan on Twitter (opens in a new tab)
On The Unknown
Website
New York Times Review (1927) (opens in a new tab)
On Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Essay
Sunrise (opens in a new tab)
On Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Essay
F. W. Murnau’s Sunrise, the 1927 Masterpiece Voted the 5th Best Movie of All Time (opens in a new tab)
On Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Museum
F. W. Murnau’s Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (opens in a new tab)
On Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Essay
How Georges Méliès A Trip to the Moon Became the First Sci-Fi Film & Changed Cinema Forever (1902) (opens in a new tab)
On A Trip to the Moon
Foundation
NFPF Screening Room (opens in a new tab)
On The Toll of the Sea
Essay
Chromatic Aberrations: The Toll of the Sea (opens in a new tab)
On The Toll of the Sea
Foundation
NFPF Screening Room (opens in a new tab)
On The Bargain
Foundation
NFPF Screening Room (opens in a new tab)
On The Big Show

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