When approaching any project, this whether medium you are working in is film, music, writing, painting, whatever, there is one basic thing that you begin with, and there is one essential thing that you end with. You begin with your vision for the project--that is, what you would like the end

The whole idea of a Silent Film Smackdown or kickboxing match to pronounce a "winner" in the end is an act bordering on a level of absurdity so profound its virtually without equal. At the same time the idea of bunching these two supernatural films together just set upon me five minutes ago

When we think of great directors from the German Silent Era who died far too young, I think of three gentlemen: one is quite obvious, two are far less well known.  The first would of course be F.W Murnau, who famously died in March 1931 via a Pacific Coast Highway auto crash just before his film

How talented was the person of Fritz Lang, what an artist! Every bit the cinematic compatriot of F.W. Muranu, subject of yesterday's rhapsody, the two men yet could not be more different in terms of sensibility and personality. Far more concerned with the concrete aspects of the darker side of

A rare peek at the lighter side of the man. (IMG: Fox films) Cinema to me will always be embodied by the DNA of the output of two men: James Whale in the sound era, and F.W. Murnau in the silent era. This isn't necessarily because I claim historical supremacy of these two particular men above all