Film historian and cultural critic Paul (PT) Klein’s work focuses on American filmgoing cultures. So even when discussing his sole foreign pick, the conversation dives into audience reception to his selections, then and now, in addition to the various aesthetic strengths of each of his movies.

PT’s writing has appeared in Film Atlas, Film Matters, Foglifter, Metro Weekly, and more. His work can be found at ptklein.com.

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Films and resources mentioned:

• The Girl and Her Trust (1912) - D.W. Griffith
• The Grit of the Girl Telegrapher (1912) - J.P. McGowan
• Algie the Miner (1912) - Alice Guy-Blaché
• The Invaders (1912) - Francis Ford and Thomas Ince
• In Night and Ice (1912) - Mime Misu
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) - F.W. Murnau
• The Lonedale Operator (1911) - D.W. Griffith
• The Hazards of Helen (1914) - J.P McGowan and J. Gunnis Davis
• Brokeback Mountain (2005) - Ang Lee
• Wild and Woolly (1917) - John Emerson
• The Wild Bunch (1969) - Sam Peckinpah
• The Searchers (1956) - John Ford
• Stagecoach (1939) - John Ford
• Richard III (1912) - André Calmettes and James Keane
• Cleopatra (1912) - Charles L. Gaskill
• Queen Elizabeth (1912) - Louis Mercanton and Henri Desfontaines
• Saved from the Titanic (1912) - Étienne Arnaud
• Titanic (1997) - James Cameron
• Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises Shape Industry and Culture - Kathleen Loock
• Girls Will Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934 - Laura Horak