Showing posts with label Daan van den Hurk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Daan van den Hurk. Show all posts
Sunday, 15 October 2023

Of time in this city… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 42, Day Eight

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  Is an interest in silent film nostalgia for a time before we were born? Let’s ask Albert Camus shall we, who said that: A man's wo...
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Sunday, 9 October 2022

Down and out in London and Marseille... The Lady (1925), Daan Van Der Hurk, Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, Streaming Day 8

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Now we have it, Norma Talmadge’s finest dramatic performance and a story in which she gets through two or three times the amount of work f...
Saturday, 29 January 2022

Mabel undercover... The Floor Below (1918), Daan van den Hurk, Nederlands Silent Film Festival

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  She was born knowing more about comedy and comedy routine than any of the rest of us ever learn...  Charlie Chaplin   It says in t...
Sunday, 16 January 2022

Blood and Sand (1922), Daan van den Hurk and Tijn van der Sanden, Nederland’s Silent Film Festival

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To the Spaniard, the love of the bullfight is inborn. A heritage of barbarism – its heroes embody the bravery of the knights of old…   ...
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Monday, 5 October 2020

"Down with luxury and romance!" Guofeng (National Customs) (1935) with Gabriel Thibaudeau, Pordenone Day 2

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“We are country people, they come from the city. They are too extravagant and modern, we mustn’t imitate them.”   “If all peasants in Chin...
Sunday, 28 January 2018

The People’s Pictures… Slapstick Festival Gala Friday, Bristol Watershed and Colston Hall

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My third year at the Slapstick Gala and again I marvel at the event’s support from the city of Bristol; the Colston Hall was filled to ...