The Jungle Book (1967)
It's Disney December at EFSP! One of our favourite classics, The Jungle Book (Wolfgang Reitherman, 1967) was the 19th animated feature by the Disney studio. It was also the last to be personally...
View ArticleLa Collectionneuse: Disney Women
Walt Disney’s name will forever be associated with cartoons. But his work can’t be reduced to that field. In the 1940s, he began to produce films combining live-action and animation, a technique which...
View ArticleRiver Phoenix
American actor River Phoenix (1970-1993) was noted for the depth, sensitivity, and intelligence that he brought to his roles during his teens. He began his acting career at age 10 in television...
View ArticleRobin Hood (1973)
This month we bring a tribute to Walt Disney's animation genius at EFSP. The twenty-first Disney animated feature film Robin Hood (Wolfgang Reitherman, 1973) is an imaginative version of the Robin Hood...
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French character actor Claude Brasseur died yesterday, 22 December 2020. Coming from a dynasty of comedians and actors, the actor has appeared in more than a hundred films and numerous plays and...
View ArticleDirected by Alfred Hitchcock
British director Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) was known as 'The Master of Suspense'. He was one of the most influential and extensively studied filmmakers in the history of cinema. 'Hitch' had his...
View ArticleMerry Christmas!
As every year: Gelukkig kerstfeest! Frohe Weihnachten! ¡Feliz Navidad! Joyeux Noël! Buon Natale! Sretan Božić! Καλά Χριστούγεννα! Boldog karácsonyt! Gleðileg jól! Nollaig Shona! Priecīgus...
View ArticleLa Collectionneuse: Disney Women
Walt Disney’s name will forever be associated with cartoons. But his work can’t be reduced to that field. In the 1940s, he began to produce films combining live-action and animation, a technique which...
View ArticleThe Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)
The anthology film The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is Disney's 22nd animated feature, based upon the Winnie-the-Pooh books by A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard. The film is comprised of three...
View ArticleOliver & Company (1988)
Our final post in Disney December at EFSP is about Oliver & Company (George Scribner, 1988), the twenty-seventh animated feature released in the Disney Canon. The film was inspired by Charles...
View ArticleBlanche Sweet
Blanche Sweet (1896-1986) was an American actress of the silent screen, who first appeared at Biograph in countless shorts and became known as 'The Biograph Blonde'. She also starred in the feature...
View ArticleVictims of the Spanish Flu
As 2020 is nearing its end, and the Covid-19 pandemic reminds many of the notorious Spanish Flu which wrecked the world in 1918-1920, we thought it is apt to have a post dedicated to victims of this...
View ArticleHappy New Year!
All the best for 2021! Gelukkig Nieuwjaar!, as we say in Dutch. Thanks for your friendship in 2020. We hope to meet you all here again in 2021! Vintage card.Austrian actress Romy Schneider (1938-1982)...
View ArticleStars who passed away in 2020
On the first day of 2021, EFSP remembers the stars of the international cinema we had to say farewell to in 2020. Thank you, for your films and postcards. We salute you!31 December 2019: Milan Beli...
View ArticleRecently acquired
Before Covid-19, we regularly did posts at EFSP on what we had recently acquired on collector fairs, etc. But there are no fairs anymore and hopefully, they will once return. Nowadays we only buy...
View ArticleElse Berna
Actress and singer Else Berna (sometimes Elsa Berna) started her career on stage in cabarets and revues. The glamorous star appeared in a dozen silent German films in the 1910s and 1920s./b>German...
View ArticleVladimir Korenev (1940-2021)
Last Saturday, 2 January 2021, Russian film and theatre actor Vladimir Korenev (1940) passed away. In the 1960s, the handsome Korenev became a sex symbol in the Soviet Union when he played the lead...
View ArticleAldo Fabrizi
Italian actor, screenwriter, and director Aldo Fabrizi (1905-1990) was one of the most important figures in post-war Italian cinema. With his receding hairline and round silhouette, he imposed a...
View ArticleMae West
Blonde Mae West (1895-1982) was a seductive, overdressed, endearing, intelligent, and sometimes vulgar American actress and sex symbol. She featured a come-hither voice, aggressive sexuality, and a...
View ArticlePearl Harbor (2001)
Pearl Harbor (Michael Bay, 2001) is an American romantic war drama, produced by Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer and written by Randall Wallace. It stars Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett,...
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