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	<title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Abel Gance</title>
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		<title>Abel Gance, Lon Chaney, Buster Keaton: San Francisco Silent Film Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
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Chang by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack (top); J&#8217;accuse! by Abel Gance (middle); Lon Chaney in Tod Browning&#8217;s West of Zanzibar (bottom)

Abel Gance&#8217;s 1919 anti-war drama J&#8217;accuse! is the centerpiece of this winter&#8217;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&#8217;accuse!, which  is having its US big-screen premiere at the festival, focuses on a love triangle set in World War I Europe, a time when men were slaughtering  one another for some great cause or other. (As always, the great cause in question depended on which side you were fighting.) Actual soldiers took part in the film, and in one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Films &#8211; 1927</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[H. H. Caldwell]]></category>
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Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer in The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
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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: Joseph W. Farnham
The Valley of the Giants
  d: Charles Brabin; scr: Gordon Rigby
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George O&#8217;Brien, Janet Gaynor in Sunrise
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The Cat and the Canary
  d: Paul Leni; scr: Alfred A. Cohn, Robert F. Hill; titles: Walter Anthony
Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney / The Love of Jeanne Ney
  d: G. W. Pabst; scr: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abel Gance&#8217;s LA ROUE on DVD</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[La Roue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Will Ferrell]]></category>

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&#34;There is cinema before and after La Roue as there is painting before and after Picasso.&#34;
That&#8217;s none other than Jean Cocteau, referring to the mammoth 1923 drama (original running time: nearly 8 hours) directed and written by Abel Gance &#8212; he of Napoleon.
Gance worked for three years on La Roue / The Wheel, which revolves around a locomotive engineer (Séverin-Mars, who died in 1921, two years before the film&#8217;s official release), his obsession with his adopted daughter (Ivy Close, mother of director Ronald Neame), and her (romantic) love for the engineer&#8217;s son (Gabriel de Gravone), who also happens to have fallen in love with her. 
The director and his cinematographers (Gaston Brun, Marc Bujard, Léonce-Henri Burel, and Maurice Duverger) worked [...]]]></description>
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