Best Films – 1914

Giovanni Pastrone’s epic Cabiria is considered a landmark in motion picture history, inspiring the scope of D. W. Griffith’s Intolerance (1916).
 
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Cabiria
d: Giovanni Pastrone; scr: Giovanni Pastrone, Gabriele D’Annunzio
The Wrath of the Gods
d: Reginald Barker; scr: William H. Clifford, Thomas H. Ince, C. Gardner Sullivan
 

Harold Lockwood, Mary Pickford in Tess of the Storm Country
ACTRESS
Mary Pickford
Tess of the Storm Country
 
SHORT FILM
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
d: D.W. Griffith
 
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1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919
1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929
1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939
1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955
1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965
1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975
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by Andre Soares | April 1, 2009   
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Berlin 2007: Asta Nielsen is Hamlet

Asta Nielsen in Hamlet

Sure, the 2007 Berlinale, which has kicked off this evening, will offer a number of good — hopefully, even a few great — new films. But for my money, the most interesting section this year is the Retrospective covering the roles of women in silent films of the 1910s and 1920s.
I’ve mentioned the Retrospective in a previous post, but I didn’t know at the time that a restored (two-strip) color version of Sven Gade and Heinz Schall’s Hamlet was going to be screened. Accompanied by Michael Riessler’s new score, Hamlet, starring Grand Diva Asta Nielsen as the angst-ridden, cross-dressing prince(ss) of Denmark, will have its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival at 6 p.m. [...]

by Andre Soares | February 8, 2007   
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