Posted on October 31, 2007 by flyczba
The thoughts:
Plot structure of German films: too close to theater source
Entertainment in American films means disregard for situation comedies, and a celebration of modern reality
The day’s program:
Buddenbrooks (Germany, 1923)
US Silent sponsored films: safety first !
Baby Brother (US, 1927), Wiggle Your Ears (US, 1929)
Il Piccolo Garibaldino (IT, 1909), I Mille (IT, 1912)
Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin: von [...]
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Posted on October 31, 2007 by flyczba
The Bioscope
But modern video is too bright, too much of the moment - it anaethetizes the ordeal. The monochrome silent footage, by its very distance, makes those things endured in the past seem all the more astonishing, because they seem so distant. In seeing the films of Scott, Shackleton and Mawson we long for close-ups [...]
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Posted on October 30, 2007 by flyczba
The thoughts:
1 filming sport spectacles: the thrills of spectatorships, or the thrills of participation by proxy?
2 the rhetorics of space: multiple aesthetics of space collide in films
3 do silent films always show old ways of doing silent films ?
The program:
Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit (1924-25 - Germany) [The Way To Strength and Beauty]
The Cook [...]
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Posted on October 30, 2007 by flyczba
Another link that comes through The Bioscope: Motion pictures in history teaching; a study of the Chronicles of America photoplays, as an aid in seventh grade instruction (1929)
Thank you Bioscope !
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Posted on October 30, 2007 by flyczba
If you’ve never gone to Pordenone, then you just have to go next year. This was my first year, and what a treat it is! Gorgeous prints, even better musical accompaniment, and for someone like me who just doesn’t know anybody and doesn’t do much socializing, a chance to get lost in foggy thoughts about [...]
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Posted on October 1, 2007 by flyczba
just found this browsing the New York Times archives today: a sultry night at the movies
(anyone with info on “Married the Third Year”?)
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