Monday, 31 October 2011

Great Gilbert (Part 2) + Vidor the King The Big Parade (1925)

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It’s hard to watch The Big Parade without thinking of the war films that came after it, even including modern ones such as Saving Private R...
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Friday, 28 October 2011

Great Gilbert! Bardelys the Magnificent (1926)

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The best tribute you can pay to any work of art is to stop thinking about it and just respond. This is the problem faced when watching Shake...
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Monday, 24 October 2011

King Vidor & Queen Eleanor… Wine of Youth (1924)

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It’s one of the main missions of this blog for me to discover (or rediscover) the talent and creativity of (mostly) silent film. Before I st...
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Friday, 21 October 2011

The sounds of silents... The First Born (1928)

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Musical accompaniment has always played a major part in the most successful viewing of films from the silent era. Silent movies were never a...
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Wednesday, 19 October 2011

The eyes have it… Summer with Monika (1953)

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I’ve had a backlog of Ingmar Bergman films to watch/re-watch and haven’t been able to get round to it. You need to be in the right frame of ...
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Friday, 14 October 2011

New Negri vehicle opens in London to rave review! … Mania (1918)

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Last night I attended the UK premier of Mania starring Pola Negri. The film, full title Mania, The History of a Cigarette Factory Worker , ...
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Saturday, 8 October 2011

Identity, crisis and coincidence... The Passenger (1975)

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"Can I ask you a question, only one, always the same; what are you running away from?" Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger...
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