Golem, wie er in die Welt kam was far longer than I hoped it’d be. This is because I got confused and watched the wrong Golem film. I’d have been much less eager to watch it if I’d known beforehand that the director was Paul Wegener, whose 40 minute feature Der Student Von Prag wasContinue reading “film: Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (1920)”
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film: Feuillade: Les Vampires, Le Cryptogramme rouge (e3, 1915)
Finally, the first evidence of burning sexuality in film. 1915. The gang sits backstage, and one of the men walks across the room, looking like Marlon Brando, very self-assured, he turns around and whistles, and a woman follows his path and right as she reaches him he roughly grabs her the hair atop head andContinue reading “film: Feuillade: Les Vampires, Le Cryptogramme rouge (e3, 1915)”
film: Mankiewicz: Guys and Dolls (1955)
2 may 07 I’ve began to wonder if the Good old films are as witty as they are because the people who made them built themselves up from roles in the production of silent films, from writing the stories to the intertitles, perhaps even the unheard dialogue, these are people who understand an element ofContinue reading “film: Mankiewicz: Guys and Dolls (1955)”
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