I came to Lewis Milestone’s All Quiet on the Western Front backwards. I saw the silent version (shot alongside the primary, sound version) first, attending a screening at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago in 2004. Gobsmacked by its...
I have a confession to make. I was not, until I watched 1927’s The Kid Brother, out now on Blu-ray from Criterion, familiar with the work of Harold Lloyd. I mean, I’d seen the clock bit from Safety Last! but...
