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 ...

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 ...

The pre-Code era of Hollywood filmmaking ran from 1930 to 1934. During these years, Hollywood films contained increasing ...

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 ...