Napoléon-1927
Napoleon is a remarkable attempt by any filmmaker, by any standards to have embarked upon and at any time. Of course Balzac set out to replicate the achievements of the little corporal in literature and succeeded. Instead of a sword or pen Abel Gance set out to record the life of Napoleon on celluloid and [...]
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Abel Gance’s Napoleon
Posted in French cinema, tagged Abel Gance, kevin brownlow, MGM, triptych on May 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Wit of Women-3
Posted in anecdotes, tagged battle of the sexes, Cleopatra, Dorothy Parker, Eleonara Duse, Helen Hayes, Herbert Spencer, Lalande, Laurette Taylor, Mark Antony, Mrs. Fiske Mme.de Stael, Napoleon on May 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Cleopatra(69-30 B.C)
Mark Antony had done his best to entertain Cleopatra and was peeved by her taunts as to the quality of his table. He was perplexed too. When she remarked that she would in one supper spend ten million sesterii Antony laid a wager that it was impossible.
When she laid out her table Mark Antony [...]
The Third Man-1949
Posted in entertainment, tagged 100 Best Films, British films, Casablanca, Graham Greene, postwar films, zither music on May 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This was Sir Carol Reed’s second collaboration with British screenwriter Graham Greene (after The Fallen Idol (1948)) – a clever and original mystery tale simply evoked by one sentence written by Greene: “I saw a man walking down the Strand, whose funeral I had only recently attended.”
The Third Man is a decadent film pure and [...]
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