Directed by Erich von Stroheim Foolish Wives is a silent film also written by him. Plot The silent drama is set in and around Monaco where Villa Amorosa is leased out for the season. The three Russians who occupy the villa are frauds and they are there to make a killing and move on before [...]
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Foolish wives-1922
Posted in great film directors, Hollywood films, tagged auteur theory, Erich von Stroheim, Greed, Irving Thalberg, Merry Widow, MGM, Universal on December 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Pen Portraits #46
Posted in films, great film directors, personalities, tagged Americana, birth of a nation, celluloid of innovation, genius, make belief.father of flicks on February 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
DAVID (WARK) GRIFFITH (American) (1875 - 1948) Film director. A stage actor and aspiring playwright who entered the cinema in 1908, Griffith is generally acknowledged as the father of the cinema, the man who invented everything from cross cutting to the close-up. Though rival claims may be pressed – for Louis Feuillade and Benjamin Christenan, [...]
Films of Bergman
Posted in great film directors, tagged Alf Sjöberg, Autumn Sonata, Carl Dreyer, existential angst, Fanny and Alexander, interior life, Persona, Port of Call, Smiles of A Summer Night, Svensk filmindustri, The Seventh Seal, Torment, Wild Strawberries on October 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
(This is a reprint of the post first posted in cinebuff.wordpress.com) One feature of Bergman films is an unconscious acknowledgment of personal influences of his world on him. Bergman was working for Svensk Filmindustri while Alf Sjöberg made The Road to Heaven (1942), a stark medieval allegory, hints of which we can see in The [...]
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