Abel Gance Articles

Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho set The first recipient of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts' Fellowship, "awarded in recognition of outstanding achievement in the art forms of the moving image," was director Alfred Hitchcock in 1971. Dozens of film, television, and assorted media personalities have become BAFTA Fellows since then, though the pattern here — as most elsewhere — is that achievements by men [...]

Chang by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack (top); J'accuse! by Abel Gance (middle); Lon Chaney in Tod Browning's West of Zanzibar (bottom) Abel Gance's 1919 anti-war drama J'accuse! is the centerpiece of this winter's edition of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, to be held on Saturday, Dec. 12, at the Castro Theater. The 162-minute, recently restored J'accuse!, which is having its US [...]

Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer in The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg FILM Breakfast at Sunrise d: Malcolm St. Clair; scr: Fred De Gresac, Gladys Unger The Enemy d: Fred Niblo; scr: Willis Goldbeck, Agnes Christine Johnston; titles: John Colton The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg d: Ernst Lubitsch; scr: Hans Kräly; titles: Marion Ainslee, Ruth Cummings The Unknown d: Tod Browning; scr: Waldemar Young; titles: [...]

"There is cinema before and after La Roue as there is painting before and after Picasso." That's none other than Jean Cocteau, referring to the mammoth 1923 drama (original running time: nearly 8 hours) directed and written by Abel Gance — he of Napoleon. Gance worked for three years on La Roue / The Wheel, which revolves around a locomotive engineer (Séverin-Mars, who died in [...]