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La Collectionneuse: The Il(l)a Meery Case
Ila Meery (1908-1974 (?)) was a Hungarian-born actress who appeared in German and French late silent and early sound films. Her history was a mystery. French Wikipedia wrote she was one of the...
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The Ten Commandments (1923)
The Ten Commandments (1923) is an American silent religious epic produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Written by Jeanie MacPherson, the film is divided into two parts: a prologue recreating the...
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Ernst Deutsch
Ernst Deutsch (1890-1969) a.k.a. Ernest Dorian was an Austrian actor who acted in 42 silent films. On stage, he became famous as an expressionist actor in 'Der Sohn'(The Son) in 1916. He starred in...
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Renée Héribel
French actress Renée Héribel (1903-1952) knew to launch a short but impressive film career in the second half of the 1920s. In 1933, she suddenly retired at the age of 30 and disappeared into...
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Fred MacMurray
Fred MacMurray (1908-1991) was an American actor and singer who appeared in more than 100 films and a successful television series during a career that spanned nearly a half-century, from 1935 to the...
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Art work by Franco Picchioni
Ivo Blom found this series of postcards with portraits of Italian singers, who were popular in the mid-1960s. Quite a few of them had also careers in cinema, some even extensive ones. All portraits...
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Directed by Quentin Tarantino
American director, screenwriter, actor & producer Quentin Tarantino (1963) was the most distinctive and volatile talent to emerge in American cinema in the 1990s. Tarantino learned his craft from...
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Enfin le cinéma!
Today is the official opening of the exhibition 'Enfin le cinéma! Arts, images et spectacles en France (1833-1907)' at musée d’Orsay in Paris. From the museum site: "At the dawn of the twentieth...
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Batman Forever (1995)
Batman Forever (Joel Schumacher, 1995), produced by Tim Burton, was the third installment of Warner Bros' initial Batman film series. It is a loose sequel to Batman Returns (1992). Val Kilmer took over...
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Ferdinand Bonn
Ferdinand Bonn (1861-1933) was a German actor, playwright, and theatre director. Between 1914 and 1932 he had a career in German and Austrian silent and early sound cinema.German postcard by Meisenbach...
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Charles Morton
Charles Morton (1908-1966) was a good-looking and athletic American film and television actor. His film career started as a leading man in the silent era in films by John Ford and Friedrich Wilhelm...
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Directed by Jean Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard (1930) is a French film director and screenwriter. He is one of the most important members of the Nouvelle Vague (New Wave). Godard first received global acclaim for his feature À bout...
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Maciste all’Inferno (1926)
Today starts the 40th edition of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, the world’s leading international silent-film festival, presented annually in Pordenone, northern Italy. EFSP will follow the festival...
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The stars of Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)
Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, the international silent film festival of Pordenone, opened yesterday officially with Ernst Lubitsch's wonderful Lady Windermere's Fan, based on Oscar Wilde's 1892 play....
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Marlene Dietrich's German films
Recognising the crucial role of women in the history of cinema is a true leitmotif of this edition of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, the 6th under Jay Weissberg’s direction. This year’s biggest...
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The comic genius of Max Linder
French comedian Max Linder (1883-1925) was the star of the first edition of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto in 1982, the international silent film festival of Pordenone. This year, Linder returns in...
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Ita Rina
At the mid-week event of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, the international silent-film festival of Pordenone, a celebration of sensuality is on offer. The Czech drama Erotikon (1929), directed by Gustav...
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All'ombra di un trono (1921)
One of the gems to be featured in the 40th edition of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, the international silent-film festival of Pordenone, is a preview of the Ruritania retrospective in 2022 with...
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Ellen Richter
This year’s biggest retrospective of Le giornate del Cinema Muto, the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, is dedicated to the Austrian-Jewish actress and producer Ellen Richter (1891-1969), a versatile...
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Casanova (1927)
The closing event of Le giornate del Cinema Muto, the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, is Casanova/The Loves of Casanova (Alexandre Volkoff, 1927) in a new 4k restoration from the Cinémathèque...
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