"At the recent San Francisco Silent Film Festival I acquired several recently-published books I hadn’t seen before. Now that I’ve spent time with them I feel duty-bound to spread the word."
"Creepy and twee ... that's how I used to see Kennington's favourite son. But now, following a round of re-releases of his classic films, I realise what a proper Charlie I've been"
F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote: "I was the spark that lit up Flaming Youth, Colleen Moore was the torch. What little things we are to have caused all that trouble."
For those interested in film history, in silent film, and in Louise Brooks - Marek Haltof’s Polish National Cinema (Berghahn Books) offers a little something for everyone. It’s a groundbreaking work well worth checking out.