D.W. Griffith in California
Los Angeles Filmforum will present "D.W. Griffith in California," on Sunday, Nov. 15, at 7:30 pm. at the Echo Park Film Center. At the screening, film scholar Tom Gunning will discuss D. W. Griffith and his early Californian films.
Six of those Griffith productions will be screened: Man’s Genesis (1912, 17 min); The New Dress (1911, 17 min.); The Massacre (1914, 20 min); The Unchanging Sea (below right, 1910, 14 min.); The Sands of Dee (1912, 17 min); and The Female of the Species (1912, 17 min).
All in 16mm, with live musical accompaniment by Cliff Retallick.
Among the early stars featured in those shorts are Blanche Sweet, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Arthur Johnson, Wilfred Lucas, and, [...]
by Andre Soares | November 10, 2009
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Tags: Blanche Sweet, Classic Movies, D. W. Griffith, Los Angeles Filmforum, Los Angeles Screenings, Mae Marsh, Man's Genesis, Mary Pickford, Shorts, Silent Films, The Female of the Species, The Unchanging Sea
Best Films – 1930
Made at the dawn of the sound era, All Quiet on the Western Front remains the best war film ever made. Despite some brave (and not so brave) attempts by other filmmakers ever since, no other motion picture I’ve seen has captured the horrors of war with the honesty and the poignancy of Lewis Milestone’s rendition of Erich Maria Remarque’s pacifist novel. Lew Ayres plays the young, idealistic soldier who soon discovers that war has nothing to do with either honor or glory.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
d: Lewis Milestone; scr: Maxwell Anderson, Del Andrews, George Abbott
The Bishop Murder Case
d: Nick Grindé, David Burton; scr: Lenore J. Coffee
Going Wild
d: William [...]
by Andre Soares | April 3, 2009
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Tags: Alison Skipworth, All Quiet on the Western Front, Armand Bernard, Arthur Edeson, Bess Meredyth, Best Films, Blanche Sweet, Call of the Flesh, Chester Morris, Classic Movies, Edwin Justus Mayer, Ernest Torrence, Frances Marion, Fredric March, George Abbott, George Cukor, Going Wild, Greta Garbo, Herbert Stothart, Herman J. Mankiewicz, In Gay Madrid, Lenore J. Coffee, Let Us Be Gay, Lew Ayres, Lewis Milestone, Marie Dressler, Maxwell Anderson, Merritt B. Gerstad, Nick Grinde, Norma Shearer, Ona Munson, Ramon Novarro, Ray June, Renée Adorée, Robert Z. Leonard, Sous les toits de Paris, The Bat Whispers, The Bishop Murder Case, The Royal Family of Broadway, Under the Roofs of Paris, Warner Oland, William A. Seiter, Xavier Cugat
