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Better HOP TO IT!
Milestone’s
Sizzling
Summer
Sale of
Silent Cinema
ends Monday August 22
at 5:00 pm EDT
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Russian film poet Evgeni Bauer combined the technical virtuosity of D.W. Griffith with the haunting terror of Edgar Allan Poe and the artist’s eye of Johannes Vermeer. He is — perhaps — the greatest film director you have never heard of. During his brief four-year career, Bauer created macabre masterpieces — dramas darkly obsessed with doomed love and death.
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Mary Pickford stars as the belle of Clothes-Line Alley in San Francisco, in a film historian Kevin Brownlow dubbed, “adorable!”
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Stars Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson are star-crossed lovers in this romance — rediscovered after 80 years!
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Hijinks ensue at the Bull Pup Café, when chef “Fatty” Arbuckle and waiter Buster Keaton defend a pretty cashier.
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Starewicz’s stop-motion animation was a sensation in Czarist Russia and remains as astonishing to viewers a century later.
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A story of lost love ingrained in American mythology, Evangeline stars the hauntingly lovely Dolores del Rio.
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Filmed in Bali, Legong is a tale of love denied. It is the celebration and preservation of an amazing culture.
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Mary Pickford’s Poor Little Rich Girl, The Hoodlum, Sparrows, and Ramona in new restorations! DVD only.
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Abandoned in Belgium when her widowed mother remarries, Jeanne returns incognito after WWI to rescue her family.
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Producer, actress and free spirit Nell Shipman filmed these two films in the frozen wilds of Canada and the Mojave Desert.
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A Polish nobleman hides inside a chess-playing automaton — will he defeat the empress to win his country’s freedom?
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Mary Pickford is an orphan who grows into into a fine woman. But who is her mysterious patron? (Only a few left!)
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This drama set in the Alps and directed by film great Ernst Lubitsch features a riveting performance by John Barrymore.
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After a romance between a factory lass and an society gent, her parents want them to wed, but the lady has other ideas.
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Anna May Wong stars as a maid who overnight becomes the toast of London — and the object of desire of all around her.
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Mary Pickford is both heartbreaking and hilarious as a laundress who cherishes the shirt of her unrequited love.
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From 1915–1939, Frances Marion was the world’s highest-paid screenwriter — and the first to win two Oscars for writing.
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