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5 giorni fa · The Last Command. Dir: Josef von Sternberg. Scr: Lajos Biro, John F. Goodrich, Herman J. Mankiewicz. Pho: Bert Glennon. Ed: William Shea. Premiere: January 22, 1928. 85 min. “Based on a true story” is usually a lame trick to try and get the audience to buy into an absurd story premise.
5 giorni fa · The 1928 film The Patriot is the only Best Picture nominee that is lost (about one-third is extant). The Racket, also from 1928, was believed lost for many years until a print was found in Howard Hughes' archives. It has since been restored and shown on Turner Classic Movies.
6 giorni fa · Her sound film debut performance in 1929's The Trespasser, earned her a second Academy Award nomination. Queen Kelly (1928–29) was a box office disaster, but is remembered as a silent classic. After almost two decades in front of the cameras, her film success waned during the 1930s.
5 giorni fa · New York audiences might be the luckiest cinephiles this summer: French legend Catherine Breillat’s newest gem of a film Last Summer not only opens theatrically this weekend, but they were treated to a retrospective of the director’s work at Film at Lincoln Center.
2 giorni fa · Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction silent film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang from von Harbou's 1925 novel of the same name (which was intentionally written as a treatment). It stars Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, and Brigitte Helm.
5 giorni fa · Fox Movietone News: Jenkins Orphanage Band. Premiere: 1928. 3 min. I could not possibly do a better job of explaining this early sound short than Julie Hubbert does on the Library of Congress website. I urge you to read her essay here. She explains the origin of the Jenkins Orphanage in Charleston, SC, and how its founder, the ...
4 giorni fa · Recensione di Marianna Cappi. giovedì 13 giugno 2024. . Midwest, all'alba degli anni Sessanta. Un fotografo segue il neonato club dei Vandals, una compagnia di motociclisti di Chicago che si è formata attorno all'idea e al carisma del camionista Johnny. Tornerà anni dopo, per farsi raccontare da Kathy come sono andate le cose.
