  cover art  Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages  Director:
Benjamin Christensen  (Criterion Collection; 1922/2001)  Bubble,
Bubble Toil & Trouble   For those of us who find the silent film
addictive, satisfying that passion can be a difficult
enterprise. Only the most famous silent features have appeared
on either video or DVD. Only some museums and specialty theaters
show pre-sound pictures, and domestic films are featured far
more often at these specialty screenings in the U.S. than
foreign films. Except for international war-horses like Potemkin
or The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, a great number of important
silent films from other cultures are available only available as
references in history books.  This point was reinforced several
years ago when the film scholar Kevin Brownlow produced a
television series on the history of European silent film. Much
of the material Brownlow presented was a revelation, for access
to work by figures like Mauritz Stiller and Victor Seastrom of
Norway or the Frenchmen Louis Fe