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Tag Archives: Silent Film
“The Mountain Cat”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Released in 1921, Ernst Lubitsch’s “The Mountain Cat” (sometimes called “The Wildcat”) has little of the urbaneness of the director’s later work. It’s one of his Bavarian films, made (at least in part) on sojourns from … Continue reading
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Tagged Bavaria, Comedy, Ernst Lubitsch, Film, Germany, movies, Pola Negri, Silent Film, The Mountain Cat
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Like a Holy Candle
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: There are four sorts of scenes alternated: (1) the particular history of Judith; (2) the gentle courtship of Nathan and Naomi, types of the inhabitants of Bethulia; (3) pictures of the streets, with the population flowing … Continue reading
Posted in Books Publishing and Writing, Movies
Tagged Blanche Sweet, D. W. Griffith, Film, Judith of Bethulia, movies, Silent Film, Vachel Lindsay
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Robert and Nanook
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Robert Flaherty’s “Nanook of the North” is usually discussed as a documentary, but I wonder if the movie isn’t ill-served by that conversation, which is simply too limiting to address the subtleties of Flaherty’s art. In focusing on … Continue reading
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Tagged documentary, eskimoes, Film, movies, Nanook of the North, Robert Flaherty, Silent Film
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The Treasure of Treasures
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Lately I’ve been enjoying, bit by bit, the Cohen Film Collection’s restoration of D.W. Griffith’s “Intolerance,” which is available to stream via Hulu Plus. (It’s also available on Blu-Ray.) I’ve seen the movie many times, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Billy Bitzer, D. W. Griffith, Film, Intolerance, movies, Pauline Kael, Silent Film
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Capitulation
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: A Russian who immigrated to Paris in the early 1920s, Dimitri Kirsanoff was above all an avant-gardist. However, he wasn’t above employing Griffith-style melodrama when it suited his purposes. In his “Menilmontant,” a brief, richly volatile work about a … Continue reading
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Tagged Dimitri Kirsanoff, Film, France, Menilmontant, movies, Nadia Sibirskaia, Silent Film
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Notes on “Every-Night Dreams”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: There’s an almost cubist visual sensibility at work in this 1933 silent from director Mikio Naruse. Scenes are fractured into barrages of angles, the camera sometimes moving in on its subjects in kamikaze fashion. Many of the … Continue reading
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Tagged film Ever-Night Dreams, Japan, Mikio Naruse, movies, Silent Film, Sumiko Kurishima
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Movie Poster Du Jour: “The Passion of Joan of Arc”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: This poster for Dreyer’s “Joan” must be one of the earliest products of Boris Konstantinovitch Bilinsky’s cinema advertising company, Alboris, founded just a few months prior to the film’s Parisian opening in October 1928. A Russian expat … Continue reading
Posted in Commercial art, Movies
Tagged Boris Bilinsky, Carl Dreyer, Falconetti, Film, France, Movie Posters, movies, Silent Film, The Passion of Joan of Arc
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Loners
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: In those days the one girl D.W. ever appeared with outside the studio was Lillian Gish, although none of us even dared whisper that their association was anything but platonic. Nobody had ever heard D.W. address … Continue reading
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Tagged A Girl Like I, Anita Loos, D. W. Griffith, Film, Lillian Gish, movies, Silent Film
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“The Hands of Orlac”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Directed by Robert Wiene, the 1924 “The Hands of Orlac” takes the psychological emphasis of Wiene’s “Caligari” and gives it an undertow of pained Germanic romanticism (among other things, it’s a fever dream of emasculation). Conrad … Continue reading
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Tagged Conrad Veidt, Film, horror, movies, Robert Wiene, Silent Film, The Hands of Orlac
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“Thomas Graal’s Best Film”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Swedish film pioneer Mauritz Stiller is known mainly for his connection to Greta Garbo; it was he who brought her to MGM. But in the 1910s and early ’20s he was a major force in movies, perhaps … Continue reading
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Tagged Gustaf Molander, Karin Molander, Mauritz Stiller, movies, Romantic Comedy, Silent Film, Sweden, Thomas Graal's Best Film, Vertigo, Victor Sjostrom
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