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Paul Hartmann
There were a number of films produced in Europe and the US in 1938-1939 which tangibly transmitted the feeling of menacing madness that was about to unfold. Il Cinema Ritrovato (29 June - 6 July 2013)...
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Yves Montand
At Il Cinema Ritrovato (29 June - 6 July 2013), one of the sections is Letters from Chris Marker. His essay film came to light after a gestation period which happened to be a very special one, the...
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John Stuart
We're still in Italy and enjoy Il Cinema Ritrovato (29 June - 6 July 2013). In the section Silent Hitch, Alfred Hitchcock's nine surviving silent films are screened. The collection starts with his...
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Silvana Mangano
In the past Il Cinema Ritrovato (29 June - 6 July 2013) had many CinemaScope screenings at the Arlecchino theatre, which we really enjoyed. This year we can look at the magic of the European Scope (the...
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Elvire Popesco
This year, one of the major sections of Il Cinema Ritrovato (29 June - 6 July 2013) is War is near: 1938-1939. The festival organisation did not make the most obvious choices for the section, but...
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Vittorio De Sica
Today it's the eighth and final day of Il Cinema Ritrovato 2013 in Bologna, Italy. Our last festival post is about Vittorio De Sica (1901-1974). Bologna presents a retrospective about the Italian...
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Lotte Koch
German-Belgian actress Lotte Koch (1913) appeared in anti-British propaganda films of the Ufa, but she also starred in Morituri (1948), the first German film about concentration camps and the...
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Jean-Paul Belmondo
One of our favorite French stars is Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933). Bébel was a big comedy and action star in Europe from the mid-1960s till the mid-1980s, but he was initially associated with the Nouvelle...
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John Loder
Tall and handsome John Loder (1898-1988) was best known for wearing tweeds and smoking a pipe in his roles. The British-American actor started his film career as an extra in the German silent cinema,...
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Amleto
The Italian silent production Amleto/Hamlet (Eleuterio Rodolfi, 1917) is one of two hundred or more Shakespeare films that were made in the silent period of cinema. Film historian Luke McKernan...
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Pascale Petit
In the late 1950s, sweet and sexy French actress Pascale Petit (1938) formed serious competition for Brigitte Bardot as The Sex Symbol of the French cinema.Vintage postcard.German postcard by Krüger,...
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Lisette Lanvin
Pretty Lisette Lanvin (1913-2004) had a nice career in the French cinema of the 1930s. She appeared in the debut of Marcel Carné and in two films by Sacha Guitry.French postcard by Erpé, Paris, no. 61....
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Rudolf Platte
German character actor Rudolf Platte (1904-1984) played both cheerfully talkative and reserved and shy, but loving people in more than 200 films. After his death, the media hailed him as Berlin’s ‘last...
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Jean-Hugues Anglade
French actor Jean-Hugues Anglade (1955) is internationally best known for his sensual and ambiguous roles in the cult films 37°2 le matin/Betty Blue (1986) and Nikita/La Femme Nikita (1990).French...
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Victor Boucher
Victor Boucher (1877–1942) was a French stage and screen actor, who was popular as a comedian of the early French sound ccinema. French postcard by A.N., Paris, no. 22. Photo: G.L. Manuel Frères.French...
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Gisèle Pascal
Gisèle Pascal (1921-2007) was an attractive French film actress and a lover of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco.French postcard by O.P., Paris, no. 34. Photo: Studio Harcourt.Beautiful IngénueGisèle...
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Paul Hubschmid
In the 1930s, Paul Hubschmid (1917-2002) was the first Swiss film star. Then he became a popular leading man in the cinema of Nazi-Germany. During the late 1940s and early 1950s he worked in Hollywood...
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Annette Vadim
Pouty-lipped, blonde Annette Vadim (1936-2005) was a Danish-born starlet and socialite. She was the second wife of Svengali-like French film director Roger Vadim, who tried unsuccessfully to turn her...
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Der Trompeter von Säkkingen
The German silent film Der Trompetter von Säkkingen/The Trumpeter of Säkkingen (1918) was directed by Franz Porten and produced by Eiko Film. Star of the film was Paul Hartmann.German postcard by...
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Maximilian Schell
Austrian-born Swiss actor Maximilian Schell (1930) won an Oscar for his role as a defense attorney in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). Many international films and awards would follow. Schell is also a...
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