Pordenone Film Festival Articles
Pordenone 2009: THE MERRY WIDOW
Mae Murray shows her legs in The Merry Widow At The Bioscope: Pordenone Film Festival Day I "The main event, though, is the Erich Von Stroheim version of The Merry Widow (USA 1925), introduced by Leatrice Joy Fountain and featuring a new orchestral score by Maud Nelissen. The film itself is almost a checklist of Von’s obsessions; militaria, aristocrats at play, wedding processions, grotesques, fetishes [...]