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Photo by Republic Pictures
Republic Pictures was an American film production-distribution corporation that operated from 1935 to 1967. The studio was best known for its Westerns, serials and B films emphasising mystery and...
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Georges Melchior
Georges Melchior (1889-1944) was a French film actor, active in French cinema between 1911 and 1937. He was known for his roles in the Fantômas serials by Louis Feuillade (1913-1914), and the Jacques...
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Der Sohn des Hannibal (1918)
Danish actor, director, scriptwriter and producer Viggo Larsen (1880-1957) was one of the pioneers of the Danish cinema. During the 1910s, he also worked in Germany for the Messter-Film studio. One of...
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La disfida di Barletta (1915)
In 1915, the Turinese company Pasquali Film produced an adaptation of the classic, nationalistic novel 'Ettore Fieramosca' by Massimo D'Azeglio. The film, La disfida di Barletta/The Challenge of...
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Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford (1892-1979) was a legendary silent film actress and was known as 'America’s sweetheart.' She was a founder of United Artists and helped to establish the Academy.German postcard by Ross...
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Photo by Disney
Today, the Walt Disney Company is a diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, even the world's largest independent media conglomerate in terms of revenue. On 16 October 1923,...
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (William Cottrell, David Hand, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, Ben Sharpsteen, 1937) was produced by Walt Disney Productions and originally released by RKO...
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Pinocchio (1940)
The second full length animated Disney classic, Pinocchio (Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen, a.o., 1940), is based on the 19th century Italian novel of the same name by Carlo Collodi. It's a gem. For...
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Dumbo (1941)
Dumbo (1941) was Walt Disney's fourth animated feature and a masterpiece. It deals with discrimination, self esteem, the importance of family and friendship. For this post, I've found some old French...
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Bambi (1942)
Bambi (David Hand, 1942) was the fifth animated feature produced by Walt Disney. It was directed by David Hand who supervised a team of sequence directors, produced by Walt Disney and based on the book...
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One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, 1961), often abbreviated as 101 Dalmatians, is an American animated adventure film based on the 1956 novel 'The Hundred and One...
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The Sword in the Stone (1963)
The 18th Disney animated feature film, The Sword in the Stone (Wolfgang Reitherman, 1963) is a take on King Arthur's legend, scripted by Bill Peet. It was the final Animation feature to be released...
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One hundred years ago: 1919
Ciao! We're in Bologna, Italy. Like every year, we join here the Cinema Ritrovato festival: one of the greatest film parties in the world, offering some 500 great films, masterpieces and rarities. EFSP...
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Jean Gabin, The Man With The Blue Eyes
We're in Bologna, Italy, and like every year, EFSP follows Cinema Ritrovato! One of the programmes is 'Jean Gabin, The Man With The Blue Eyes', which offers only nine out of his ninety-five...
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Jack Nicholson
In the section 'Recovered and Restored', Cinema Ritrovato presents Five Easy Pieces (1970) by Bob Rafelson. It is one of my favourite Jack Nicholson films. He became my hero when I saw him in One Flew...
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Catherine Spaak
One of the curosities at Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna, I would like to see is Dario Argento's early Giallo Il gatto a nove code/The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971) in a restored version. The director himself...
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Henri Rollan
EFSP follows Cinema Ritrovato! A silent film I am really looking forward to is René Clair’s debut, Paris qui dort/While Paris sleeps (1923-1925). In this curious film, French actor and stage director...
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In search of colour - Miriam Hopkins
In 1935, the arrival of Becky Sharp, the first feature-length Technicolor film, forever changed the vision of film viewers around the world. The three colours of the new process were so beautiful they...
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A Neapolitan at Cinécittà, Eduardo De Filippo the Filmmaker
We're in Bologna, Italy, and like every year, EFSP follows Cinema Ritrovato! This festival we like to discover the genius of Neapolitan actor-director Eduardo De Filippo (1900-1985) as filmmaker in...
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Rendez-nous Musidora!
Cinema Ritrovato presented this week Rendez-nous Musidora!, a rich programme focusing on the French mega-star. With her heavily kohled dark eyes, somewhat sinister make-up, pale skin and exotic...
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