Cabiria Articles

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 [...]

Giovanni Pastrone's epic Cabiria is considered a landmark in motion picture history, having inspired the grandeur of D.W. Griffith's Intolerance (1916).   CHECK THESE OUT 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 BEST ACTRESS [...]