San Francisco Silent Film Festival highlights include hand-tinted color fantasies by Segundo de Chomón and Louis Feuillade in the days before Technicolor.
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BAFTA Fellowship: Very few Women, Few Outside UK/Hollywood Axis despite sometimes more than 1 annual honoree in recent years.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse with Rudolph Valentino (left) and then-extra Ramon Novarro (right). Rose Dione is seen holding the French tricolor in Rex Ingram’s 1921 blockbuster. Directed by…
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Jeanette MacDonald in Naughty Marietta. Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Gail Russell, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jeanette MacDonald, Emil Jannings, Jacques Tati, Nelson Eddy, Anthony Quinn, John Wayne, and…
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The Fall of the House of Usher (top); John Gilbert, Eleanor Boardman in Bardelys the Magnificent (middle); Douglas Fairbanks, Lupe Velez in The Gaucho (bottom) Douglas Fairbanks, John Gilbert,…
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Under Full Sail. Under Full Sail - Silent Cinema on the High Seas Flicker Alley (website) in association with the Blackhawk Film Collection has announced the release of “Under Full…
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Douglas Fairbanks with Julanne Johnston The Thief of Bagdad (top); Fairbanks in The Iron Mask. Rare screenings of the Douglas Fairbanks adventure classics The Thief of Bagdad (1924) and The…
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La Roue DVD: Abel Gance mammoth silent era classic. “There is cinema before and after La Roue as there is painting before and after Picasso.” That’s none other than Jean…
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Philippe Noiret. Philippe Noiret: ‘Cinema Paradiso’ & ‘The Postman’ actor dead at 76 Veteran actor Philippe Noiret, whose movie credits include Cinema Paradiso, The Postman, and the controversial Blow-Out, died…
J’accuse!: Abel Gance Anti-War Classic restoration and Lon Chaney + Bimbo the Gibbon and best Buster Keaton movie? All at San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
Rashomon effect revisited: Toshiro Mifune and Machiko Kyo in Akira Kurosawa classic. Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 classic Rashomon, which officially introduced Japanese cinema to the world at large, will be the…