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1. Over dinner:2. Over iced cream:3. Straight up:4. Being led out of a room:5. Over Ma's shoulders:6. Out the kitchen window:7. Out of the frame:8. Over hot consomme served cold:9. On His arm:10. On a dock:11. At the lovely moon:12. On a boat:13. At the phone (also known as the Kubrick Stare):14. Shaking His hand:15. On the couch:16. When He's not looking:17. And when He is:18. While He's excited about his work:19. When He begins to notice:20. On the stairs:21. In your bedroom:22. With Pa:23. In a rumble seat:24. At The End, when you're about to kiss:From King Vidor's The Patsy (1928), with Orville Caldwell; cinematography by John F. Seitz.

"Sound and Silents" is the title of a four-film series — part of the wider "Birds Eye View Film Festival" celebrating women filmmakers — to be held at London’s bfi Southbank and the Barbican from March 6-10. The four screening silent films are: King Vidor’s The Patsy (1928), starring Marion Davies; Sidney Franklin’s Her Sister from Paris (1925), starring Constance Talmadge and Ronald Colman (right); Cecil B. DeMille’s Chicago (1927), with Phyllis Haver and Victor Varconi; and Lotte Reiniger’s animated The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926). All four films will feature live musical accompaniment. The most enjoyable of the four is Sidney Franklin’s Lubitschesque Her Sister from Paris, which offers Constance Talmadge at her screwballish best — and this before screwball [...]...

It’s been hard to keep quiet about the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, which kicked off at the Castro Theatre last Friday evening with The Kid Brother (1927), featuring Harold Lloyd and introduced by Leonard Maltin, and wrapped Sunday evening with King Vidor’s The Patsy (1928).

Here at Twitch, Michael Hawley provided an excellent overview and I spoke with Artistic Director Stephen Salmons.