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Madame Tallien (1916)
Today a film special on one of the highlights of Cinema Ritrovata 2016, Madame Tallien/Madame Guillotine (Mario Caserini, Enrico Guazzoni, 1916), featuring diva Lyda Borelli. This Italian historical...
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Massimo Serato
At Cinema Ritrovata 2016, a programme section is focused on director MARIO SOLDATI, AN ECLECTIC MAN AT CINECITTÀ. He often worked with Massimo Serato (1916-1989), like for the historical drama Piccolo...
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: Rediscovering Great Faces at Cinema Ritrovato 2016
This week our blog is dedicated to the Cinema Ritrovata 2016 festival in Bologna, Italy. We are getting high on the great films from all periods of the cinematic history, found in archives all over the...
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Gérard Philipe
Gérard Philipe (1922–1959) played the artist Amedeo Modigliani in Montparnasse 19/The Lovers of Montparnasse (1958), one of the highlights of JACQUES BECKER – THE VERY IDEA OF FREEDOM at Cinema...
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Vittorio Gassman
Vittorio Gassman (1922-2000) was one of the greatest Italian theatre and film actors. With his powerful voice he was an extremely versatile, magnetic interpreter. He had an extraordinary career that...
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Georges Wague
Georges Wague (1874-1965) was a French mime, teacher and silent film actor. Between 1907 and 1922 he also performed in more than forty films. He started his film career with the silent film L'Enfant...
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Alain Souchon
Alain Souchon (1944) is a French singer-songwriter and actor. He has released 15 albums and has played roles in a dozen films, most notably opposite Isabelle Adjani in the sensual thriller L'été...
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La liberté surveillée (1958)
Today, a film special at EFSP about the unusual French-Czech coproduction La liberté surveillée/Provisional Liberty (Henri Aisner, Vladimír Vlcek, 1958) with Marina Vlady, Robert Hossein and René...
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Karin Baal
German film actress Karin Baal (1940) has appeared in over 90 films since 1956. She started as a teenage rebel in the cult film Die Halbstarken (1956) and became one of the brightest stars of the...
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: Photo by Sam Lévin
French photographer Sam Lévin (1904-1992) was one of the most important glamour photographers of the 20th century. He photographed generations of actors and actresses, artists, politicians and royalty....
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Georges Brassens
Singer-songwriter and poet Georges Brassens (1921-1981) is an iconic figure in France. With his guitar, he performed more than a hundred of his poems, as well as texts from authors such as Victor Hugo,...
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Bud Spencer (1929-2016)
On 27 June, 86-years old Bud Spencer has died in Rome, Italy of natural causes. The huge Italian actor with his trademark black beard was the popular star of many Spaghetti Westerns and low-budget...
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Götz George (1938-2016)
After a short illness, German actor Götz George has passed away in Hamburg, Germany on 19 June 2016. George (1938-2016) was a popular film and theatre star for five decades. He gained international...
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Nicole Courcel (1931-2016)
On 25 June, French actress Nicole Courcel (1931-2016) died. She appeared in 43 films between 1947 and 1979. Though Courcel is mostly unknown outside of France, she graced the screen with a number of...
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Il romanzo di Maud (1917)
Il romanzo di Maud/Maud's romance (1917) was the second film Diana Karenne directed herself, after Lea (1916). She also played the lead. On the Italian postcards with French (!) and sometimes Italian...
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Chelo Alonso
Former Cuban actress, dancer and sex-symbol Chelo Alonso (1933) was a star in the Italian cinema of the late 1950s and early 1960s. In several sword and sandal epics she played femme fatales with fiery...
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: Little Angels and Backfisches
In 1914 'Little Mary' Pickford became the most popular actress in America, if not the world. During the silent era, she was beloved for her beauty and charm. Even when she was an adult, Pickford often...
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Agnès Laurent
Beautiful French actress Agnès Laurent (1936-2010) featured in a dozen European sexploitation films of the late 1950s and early 1960s. She was touted as 'The New French sex kitten', a rival to Brigitte...
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Elmire Vautier
French actress Elmire Vautier (1897-1954) had a career in cinema between the late 1910s and the early 1940s.French postcard by Editions Cinémagazine, no. 51. Photo: Studio Pathé.An Illegitimate...
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Dina Sassoli
Beautiful Dina Sassoli (1920-2008) was an Italian stage and screen actress, who broke through with the historical drama I promessi sposi/The Betrothed (Mario Camerini, 1941).Italian postcard by Stab....
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