Queen Kelly, which Erich von Stroheim originally wrote as The Swamp, was the director's eighth silent picture and was undertaken at the behest of Gloria Swanson. Best guess is that Stroheim's full ...

The 1929 silent film returns in a shimmering, sensitively scored restoration that brings out the lurid and the romantic in Erich von Stroheim’s story of orphan-meets-prince. By Nicolas Rapold When you ...

First released in New York on December 4 1924, Erich von Stroheim’s intense, monumental Greed remains more famous for what didn’t end up on screen than what did. Based on Frank Norris’ 1899 novel ...

Until recently, appreciating the complexity of von Stroheim's limited directing output has been a challenge. So controversial has his work been that assembling worthy interpretations of his original ...