Blogs about: Abel Gance
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The Sunday Intertitle: “He said the title!”
ALWAYS say this — when a character in a film says the title of the film, declare “He said the title!” Even if it’s the title of another film. Abel Gance’s 1919 J’AC… more →
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Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility"
wrote 1 week ago: 1936 Marx’s analysis of capitalist production was prognostic: that it would exploit the prolet … more →
Director Derek Cianfrance on 'The Place Beyond the Pines' and the Magic of Ryan Gosling
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 →
The Obscure & Forgotten: "Napoleon"
wrote 2 months ago: By Waley Wang In this column, which will appear twice per week, a group of writers will examine obsc … more →
The Artist
wrote 2 months ago: The Weinstein Co. (2011) 100 min. PG-13 Director: Michel Hazanavicius Screenplay: Michel Hazanaviciu … more →
Napoléon (1927)
wrote 2 months ago: Abel Gance’s gargantuan epic tells the story of Napoléon from his days as a child in military … more →
Gance's Napoléon In London
wrote 3 months ago: Exciting news for our British readers (and those willing to travel far!); tickets for the reconstruc … more →
A guide to London for Napoléon tourists
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wrote 4 months ago: Napoléon (Abel Gance, 1927) Controversially, I have been known to say that London is the centre of t … more →
From underground films and Melies to film studies at the U, by Al Razutis
wrote 5 months ago: My first experience with historical films occurred in ’67/68 at an underground film screening … more →
Una de mis angustias
wrote 5 months ago: “El cine, su historia, su pasado y su presente, se aprende en la cinemateca. Sólo se aprende a … more →
The '20s Get Surreal and the '30s Get Sound
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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 →
Swing Music & Swingin' for the Fences!
wrote 7 months ago: What happened today? - Today in 1938, the Archbishop of Dubuque denounced swing music as “a … more →
Un realisateur de films
wrote 7 months ago: A few years ago, I took a course on Napoléon. Our final day was dedicated to watching the monumental … more →
Cowan Palace: Zombies: Can't Live With Them, Can't Live Without (Killing) Them
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wrote 7 months ago: We’re starting a new dramaturgy column where Ashley Cowan, local actress, director, writer, ge … more →
A Silent French Cinema Primer
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wrote 8 months ago: Following my French cinema primers covering the Nouvelle Vague and the pre-Nouvelle Vague sound era, … more →
French Toast
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wrote 11 months ago: A few months back, I wrote a little bit about list obsessions and the never-ending stream of choices … more →
Napoleon (Gance, 1927)
wrote 1 year ago: It is impossible to see Napoleon without recalling several scenes from the film repertory. An unenli … more →
From The Barn / Abel Gance’s Napoleon
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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 →
La Folie du Docteur Tube
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week(s) in review, 03/19 – 04/01/2012
wrote 1 year ago: I blame midterm craziness for the lack of updates, and as I’m diving headfirst into final pape … more →
