Friday, 13 October 2023

Climb every mountain*… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 42, Day Six

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We finished off day six climbing every stairway, late after dinner and relegated to the Gods for the spirited but slightly odd Poker Faces...
Wednesday, 11 October 2023

Wakes Wednesday… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 42, Day Five

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Three piers, The Golden Mile, The Big Dipper, trams, a Tower to rival Paris, arcades and donkeys; even in it’s dotage Blackpool still def...
Tuesday, 10 October 2023

Forde every stream… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 42, Day Four

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Tonight’s special was Pêcheur d'Islande (1924) with accompaniment from Gabriel Thibaudeau and Frank Bockius (again) and I wonder if i...
Monday, 9 October 2023

What goes around, finally comes around… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 42, Day Three

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  Monday night and it’s time for something mighty begun by Erich von Stroheim and completed by Rupert Julien as the studio system clamped ...
Sunday, 8 October 2023

We can be heroes… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 42, Day Two

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  And so, from the sublime to the gorblimey and back again as my granddad might of said; from a France vs Wales rugby match (I know, dur...
Saturday, 7 October 2023

Our divine voyage… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 42, Day One

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And so we came, by planes and boats and trains, back to the home of silent film festivals, Pordenone North of Venice and a very fine town ...

Who knows were the river flows… Partie de Campagne (1936), on BFI Blu-ray now

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Everyone ought to live life like a cork on a stream…From time to time, you make a hard turn to the left or to the right, but always in the...