The Goods: Film Reviews
In the the late 1910s and 1920s, a bunch of German filmmakers invented the tone and aesthetics of horror movies amidst postwar defeat drudgery in a movement called “German expressionism.”
The problem with choosing “intolerance” as a theme for your time-sprawling opus is that it is so shapeless and blunt as to lose all meaning.
The film serial was an early cinema format that is, in some ways, more familiar today than ever, though through a different mechanism:
I don’t even know where to begin. Imagine me staring speechless at a blank text box for several minutes as the prelude to this review.
As usual, the Americans got there after the Europeans, but did it with more scope and spectacle.
As I dive deeper and deeper into film history with The Goods and my expanded set of movie reviews, I’d like to more systematically expand my understanding and coverage of film history.