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Reading Room — Kino-polis

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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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Dreyer’s Waking Dream (opens in a new tab)
Geoffrey O'BrienSan Francisco Silent Film Festival2024
On Vampyr
Essay
Griffith, D.W. (opens in a new tab)
Senses of Cinema2006
Essay
The psychological horror of Dreyer's Vampyr — BFI Sight & Sound (opens in a new tab)
On Vampyr
Essay
Vampyr at 90: how Carl Dreyer conjured a waking nightmare — BFI (opens in a new tab)
On Vampyr
Essay
The Parson's Widow (1920): Dreyer's humanism and humour — Silent London (opens in a new tab)
On The Parson's Widow
Essay
Carl Dreyer's Michael - Digitalization and the Rediscovery of a classic Kammerspiel-film — Kosmorama (opens in a new tab)
On Michael