It seems like every year that ends in a nine there’s a spate of articles commemorating 1939 as “Hollywood’s Greatest Year.” Granted, plenty of classics were made during those twelve months, but I say ...

Among many other adventurous explorations of the studio’s vast catalogue, the manufacture-on-demand Warner Archive Collection has been particularly active in making available on DVD so-called ...

Warner Archive has gone deep into its vaults for a collection of rarely seen 1931 pre-code comedies and musicals arriving Tuesday on DVD. The same fate befell “Gold Dust Gertie” with Winnie Lightner ...

KPBS film critic Beth Accomando will be Procope presenting a film series on PRI code Hollywood this year. Digital gym cinema to provide a definition of what this era was all about. She speaks with ...

Its lurid reputation wasn’t enough to prepare me for William Cowen’s “Kongo” (1932), the most out-there of a raft of pre-codes released recently by the Warner Archive Collection — the pioneering and ...

If you’re a lover of rom-coms, you’ll want to know the work of early Hollywood director Ernst Lubitsch. Though Lubitsch is no longer a widely recognized name the way, say, Charlie Chaplin may be, his ...

"That was the film that brought Mae West to the movies in a big way," said William Patrick Day, a professor of cinema studies and English at Oberlin College. "She had been a vaudeville and Broadway ...