Dave Kehr
@davekehr.bsky.social
Longtime film critic -- Chicago Reader, Chicago Tribune, New York Times -- now a curator in the Department of Film of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Opinions are my own.
Released at the height of the 1918 pandemic, Chaplin's SHOULDER ARMS still broke box office records. Here's the Strand boasting that "New Yorkers took their lives in their hands" to pack the theater "all week." New @MoMAFilm resto plays 7pm Thurs.
January 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Released at the height of the 1918 pandemic, Chaplin's SHOULDER ARMS still broke box office records. Here's the Strand boasting that "New Yorkers took their lives in their hands" to pack the theater "all week." New @MoMAFilm resto plays 7pm Thurs.
A Fox trade ad from 1929, looking back on their last full year of silent films: FOUR SONS and MOTHER MACREE by John Ford, STREET ANGEL and 7th HEAVEN by Frank Borzage, RED DANCE and IN OLD ARIZONA by Raoul Walsh, AIR CIRCUS and FAZIL by Howard Hawks, and FOUR DEVILS by F.W. Murnau. Not too shoddy.
January 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
A Fox trade ad from 1929, looking back on their last full year of silent films: FOUR SONS and MOTHER MACREE by John Ford, STREET ANGEL and 7th HEAVEN by Frank Borzage, RED DANCE and IN OLD ARIZONA by Raoul Walsh, AIR CIRCUS and FAZIL by Howard Hawks, and FOUR DEVILS by F.W. Murnau. Not too shoddy.
TO SAVE AND PROJECT, MoMA's annual festival of preserved films, starts tonight and continues through Jan. 30. www.moma.org/calendar/fil...
January 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
TO SAVE AND PROJECT, MoMA's annual festival of preserved films, starts tonight and continues through Jan. 30. www.moma.org/calendar/fil...
A nice BTS still from 7th HEAVEN, with director Frank Borzage horsing around with character actor Albert Gran. An upgraded restoration opens MoMA's preservation festival, TO SAVE AND PROJECT, Thurs. Jan. 9. www.moma.org/calendar/fil...
January 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A nice BTS still from 7th HEAVEN, with director Frank Borzage horsing around with character actor Albert Gran. An upgraded restoration opens MoMA's preservation festival, TO SAVE AND PROJECT, Thurs. Jan. 9. www.moma.org/calendar/fil...
This is cool: The 35mm camera that Eduard Tissé used to shoot Sergei Eisenstein's films from STRIKE to ALEXANDER NEVSKY has been donated to the Cinematheque Française by Tissé's granddaughter, Eleanora.
December 9, 2024 at 4:49 PM
This is cool: The 35mm camera that Eduard Tissé used to shoot Sergei Eisenstein's films from STRIKE to ALEXANDER NEVSKY has been donated to the Cinematheque Française by Tissé's granddaughter, Eleanora.
A handsome insert poster for a lost Allan Dwan feature from 1925, shot between Gloria Swanson vehicles at Paramount's Astoria Studios. I'd love to see this one for the b-roll alone.
December 1, 2024 at 4:34 PM
A handsome insert poster for a lost Allan Dwan feature from 1925, shot between Gloria Swanson vehicles at Paramount's Astoria Studios. I'd love to see this one for the b-roll alone.
A nice three-sheet for the newly discovered 1918 John Ford film, THE SCARLET DROP.
November 26, 2024 at 3:01 PM
A nice three-sheet for the newly discovered 1918 John Ford film, THE SCARLET DROP.
OK this is getting weird.
November 24, 2024 at 4:47 PM
OK this is getting weird.
Frank Borzage (at the top of the pyramid, next to George E. Stone) with his cast and crew on the Paris sewer set of 7th HEAVEN (1927). Who else can you recognize?
November 23, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Frank Borzage (at the top of the pyramid, next to George E. Stone) with his cast and crew on the Paris sewer set of 7th HEAVEN (1927). Who else can you recognize?
It's getting hard to breathe over on the tweeter. How's the weather around here?
November 13, 2024 at 3:58 PM
It's getting hard to breathe over on the tweeter. How's the weather around here?