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The Early Silent Comedians: Italy
In the early 1910s, the concept of a national cinema was more of a construction than a reality, in contrast to the cinema of the 1920s. By replacing foreign intertitles, every short film could be...
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In memory of Jean-Jacques Beineix (1946-2022): 37°2 le matin / Betty Blue (1986)
On 13 January 2022, the French director, screenwriter and producer Jean-Jacques Beineix (1946) died in Paris. His first feature film, the psychological thriller Diva (1980), about a young postman...
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Finding Nemo (2003)
Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich, 2003) is the fifth full-length animated film by Pixar, distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. It tells the story of an overprotective clownfish named Marlin...
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Michel Subor (1935-2022)
Today, 17 January 2022, Michel Subor (1935) passed away. The French actor gained initial fame with the starring role in Jean-Luc Godard's second feature, Le Petit Soldat (1960). He acted in a couple of...
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Dorian Gray
Dorian Gray (1928-2011) was a very elegant Italian actress in films by Michelangelo Antonioni and Federico Fellini. She was also a sexy seductress in comedies with Totò. In 1965, Gray completely...
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Batman (1989)
In the American fantasy film Batman (Tim Burton, 1989), the Dark Knight of Gotham City (Michael Keaton) begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being Jack Napier (Jack Nicholson), a criminal...
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Yvette Mimieux (1942-2022)
On 18 January 2022, American actress and writer Yvette Mimieux (1942) died from natural causes at her home in Los Angeles. She was known for The Time Machine (1960), and several other popular films of...
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Hardy Krüger (1928-2022)
German actor and writer Hardy Krüger (1928) passed away on 19 January 2022. The blond heartthrob acted in numerous European films of the 1950s and 1960s and also in several classic American films. He...
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In memory of Gaspard Ulliel (1984-2022): Un long dimanche de fiançailles (2004)
On Wednesday 19 January 2022, French actor Gaspard Ulliel (1984) died in Grenoble, France. The Cesar-winning star of Un long dimanche de fiançailles/A Very Long Engagement (2004) and Hannibal Rising...
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The Early Silent Comedians: France
This month, EFSP presents three posts by Ivo Blom on early comedy in three countries. Last week we had a post on Italian comedians, and next week we'll host the American silent comedians. But today,...
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Directed by Max Reinhardt
Austrian-born theatre and film director, intendant, and theatrical producer Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) was one of the great innovators of the theatre in the early 20th century. In 1920, he established...
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The Incredibles (2004)
In our sixth and for now the last post on Pixar, we focus on the superhero film The Incredibles (Brad Bird, 2004). This American computer-animated film was the sixth feature produced by Pixar Animation...
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Nos Artistes
The French love their stage performers and in the early 20th Century, the magazine Comoedia published several postcard series with portraits in sepia. In the past, EFSP already did some posts on the...
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32 times Ava!
Today, it's exactly 32 years ago that Ava Gardner (1922-1990) passed away. She was considered one of the most beautiful women of her day. In 1941, 19-years-old Ava signed a contract with MGM. After her...
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Etchika Choureau (1929-2022)
French actress Etchika Choureau (1929) died on 25 January 2022, at the age of 92. Choureau's film career started very promisingly with three films and an award in 1953. During the 1950s, the beauty...
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Francis Ford
Francis Ford (1881-1953) was an American actor and director of the silent era. Ford was the male lead in such silent films as the Universal serial The Broken Coin (Francis Ford, 1915), co-scripted by...
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Mickey Rourke
American actor and former boxer Mickey Rourke (1952) received critical praise for his deep, tortured characters in the Charles Bukowski biopic Barfly (1987) and the horror mystery Angel Heart (1987)....
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The Early Silent Comedians: USA
This month, EFSP presents three posts by Ivo Blom on early comedy in three countries. In the previous weeks, Ivo selected postcards of the silent Italian and French comedians. Today, the series...
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Nos Artistes dans leurs expressions
One of the most fascinating star postcard series is Nos artistes dans leur loge, a French series published between 1922 and 1926 as a supplement for the journal Comœdia with dozens of French stage and...
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La Collectionneuse: Salome
In 2021, small fragments of Theda Bara’s Salome (1918) were made available to the public in a digitalised form. Those brief clips had been found in Madrid’s Filmoteca Espanola. It was tremendous news...
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