Blogs about: Abel Gance

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Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility"

katflei wrote 1 week ago: 1936 Marx’s analysis of capitalist production was prognostic: that it would exploit the prolet … more →

Tags: theory & philosophy, 3rd Field: Surface, Sentiment, & Sexuality, Aesthetics, film, faceting, Theory, Benjamin, mulvey, Photography

Director Derek Cianfrance on 'The Place Beyond the Pines' and the Magic of Ryan Gosling

jason605 wrote 1 month ago: It’s tricky to talk to Derek Cianfrance about his new film The Place Beyond the Pines, due to a seri … more →

Tags: Buzz, film, blue valentine, Bradley Cooper, Derek Cianfrance, Eva Mendes, Martin Scorsese, psycho, Ray Liotta

The Obscure & Forgotten: "Napoleon"

wsnproduction wrote 2 months ago: By Waley Wang In this column, which will appear twice per week, a group of writers will examine obsc … more →

Tags: film, Columns, Film (2), Obscure Film, napoleon, 1927 napoleon

The Artist

dcraft9911 wrote 2 months ago: The Weinstein Co. (2011) 100 min. PG-13 Director: Michel Hazanavicius Screenplay: Michel Hazanaviciu … more →

Tags: Drama, Comedy, silents, A Star is Born 1937 movie, bérénice bejo, Charles Ray silent movie actor, charlie chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Foreign Film

Napoléon (1927)

JoshuaKaitlyn wrote 2 months ago: Abel Gance’s gargantuan epic tells the story of Napoléon from his days as a child in military … more →

Tags: Movies, Zoopraxiscope Project, Historical, Early Cinema, France, early cinema

Gance's Napoléon In London

adambatty wrote 3 months ago: Exciting news for our British readers (and those willing to travel far!); tickets for the reconstruc … more →

Tags: silent film, Cinema, Culture, DVD, film, French Cinema, kevin brownlow, Movies, Silent Film

A guide to London for Napoléon tourists10 comments

PH wrote 4 months ago: Napoléon (Abel Gance, 1927) Controversially, I have been known to say that London is the centre of t … more →

Tags: Blog, Royal Festival Hall, Carl Davis, Silent Film, London, napoleon, Philharmonia, Tourist Information

From underground films and Melies to film studies at the U, by Al Razutis

cineworkspost wrote 5 months ago: My first experience with historical films occurred in ’67/68 at an underground film screening … more →

Tags: Alex MacKenzie, Al Razutis, George Melies, A Trip To The Moon, Silent Cinema, Cinephilia, Edison Electric Moving Image, Maya Daren, Eisenstein

Una de mis angustias

Guillermo Arias-Carbajal Alonso wrote 5 months ago: “El cine, su historia, su pasado y su presente, se aprende en la cinemateca. Sólo se aprende a … more →

Tags: Apuntes, Cine, Woody Allen, Truffaut, proyectores

The '20s Get Surreal and the '30s Get Sound3 comments

Gloria wrote 6 months ago: Sitting in a cab the other day, I glanced at the odd image that appeared on the small television scr … more →

Tags: film, Movies, Documentary, History 2, movies, Film (2), Home Theater, Hitchcock, Documentaries

Swing Music & Swingin' for the Fences!

liquorbarn wrote 7 months ago: What happened today? -          Today in 1938, the Archbishop of Dubuque denounced swing music as “a … more →

Tags: Midori, Henry V, Minnie Pearl, Georges Bizet, Bobby Thomson, Leo G. Carroll, Dan Issel, Bobby Knight, Barbara Cook

Un realisateur de films

Patricia Gilbert wrote 7 months ago: A few years ago, I took a course on Napoléon. Our final day was dedicated to watching the monumental … more →

Tags: Movies, napoleon, François Truffaut, J'ACCUSE, un realisateur de films, la roue, kevin brownlow, french director

Cowan Palace: Zombies: Can't Live With Them, Can't Live Without (Killing) Them2 comments

sftheaterpub wrote 7 months ago: We’re starting a new dramaturgy column where Ashley Cowan, local actress, director, writer, ge … more →

Tags: Cowan Palace, kirk shimano, Ashley Cowan, zombies, love in a time of zombies, World War Z, George Romero, Brad Pitt, Walking Dead

A Silent French Cinema Primer6 comments

michaelgloversmith wrote 8 months ago: Following my French cinema primers covering the Nouvelle Vague and the pre-Nouvelle Vague sound era, … more →

Tags: Film Reviews, Historical Movement / National Cinema Primers, A Child of Paris, À propos de Nice, A Trip To The Moon, Alice-Guy, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat, carl dreyer, Coeur Fidele

French Toast16 comments

John wrote 11 months ago: A few months back, I wrote a little bit about list obsessions and the never-ending stream of choices … more →

Tags: French film, Movies, the red balloon, best french films ever made

Napoleon (Gance, 1927)

Matt Zurcher wrote 1 year ago: It is impossible to see Napoleon without recalling several scenes from the film repertory. An unenli … more →

Tags: Movies, Reviews: Movies, Entertainment, Movie, napoleon, Bonaparte, Buonaparte, Review, Movie Review

From The Barn / Abel Gance’s Napoleon1 comment

What's Pickin'? wrote 1 year ago: Napoleon (1927) Reviewed by Jeff 4/10/12 It has taken me a week to come down from the cloud that was … more →

Tags: napoleon, Carl Davis, kevin brownlow, Silent Film

La Folie du Docteur Tube

Charulata wrote 1 year ago: … more →

Tags: France, 1910s, 1915, silent films

week(s) in review, 03/19 – 04/01/2012

Jesse Ataide wrote 1 year ago: I blame midterm craziness for the lack of updates, and as I’m diving headfirst into final pape … more →

Tags: Week in Review, bonello, Castro Theatre, Crazy Horse, Frederic Wiseman, Friends with kids, House of Pleasures, Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting, Jiro Dreams of Sushi


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