In Silent Stars, Sound Stars, Film Stars (1971), Canadian artist Harold Town captures the eternal power of film and its stars. In a collection of drawings that showcase a range of techniques and styles, he produces portraits that are expressive and sensitive to the medium. Town introduces the collection with a written piece expressing a personal and nuanced take on film and culture, and the impact they had on his boyhood and on the childhood of others. Town’s writing is bold, at times brash; a style mirrored by his drawings, of which many appear to be produced with a quick hand and an eye for intense expression and peculiar poses. Town’s work, both written and drawn, are insightful studies on the impact of film on art, an artist, and a generation.