Showing posts with label Silent Film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Silent Film. Show all posts
Friday, January 13, 2012

Fight The Future: "The Artist" (Michel Hazanavicius, 2011)

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“Cinema...appeases a certain sense of nostalgia that lies dormant in our hearts, nostalgia for countries never seen that will perhaps never ...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

DVD of the Week: "Au Bonheur des Dames" (Julien Duviver, 1930)

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by Chuck Williamson In Au Bonheur des Dames (1930), director Julien Duviver relocates Emile Zola’s nineteenth-century bildungsroman into...
Tuesday, September 15, 2009

DVD of the Week: Gaumont Treasures 1897-1913

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by James Hansen Allow me to nerd out this week with a DVD I haven't seen yet, but which is a must have for any early cinema lover. The G...
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Friday, June 19, 2009

DVD of the Week: "The Goddess" (Yonggang Wu, 1934)

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by Chuck Williamson Next month, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival will kick off their fourteenth annual celebration of domestic and in...
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Friday, May 1, 2009

DVD of the Week: "Piccadilly" (E.A. Dupont, 1929)

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by Chuck Williamson One of Britain’s last silent films, Piccadilly visualizes the metropolitan space as pure modernist spectacle—a twisted ...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Overlooked DVD of the Week: "A Cottage On Dartmoor" (Anthony Asquith, 1929)

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This is a darkly fascinating British silent film that appeared on DVD for the first time last year and has yet to receive the press and disc...
Saturday, March 15, 2008

Forgotten VHS #8- Abel Gance's "Napoleon"

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Not only is Abel Gance’s 1927 historical epic, Napoleon , a forgotten VHS – it may very well be the most unjustly forgotten film in the hist...
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