Posts Tagged ‘SilentFilm’
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Gold, Violet, Black, Crimson, White
The traditional view of the early cinema is of something quite polite—but as David Hewitt’s new book reveals, it was anything but. Gold, Violet, Black, Crimson, White reveals just what was seen and heard in picture houses durin...
DVD And Blu-ray
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Lon Chaney wasn’t the first to bring the titular character of the Hunchback of Notre Dame to the big screen, but his performance—set against Wallace Worsley’s spectacular Parisian backdrop— was the one that set the benchmark fo...
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Nosferatu 100th Anniversary Screenings
In 1922 one film changed cinema and defined screen terror. 100 years later, it continues to haunt and terrify audiences. 2022 brings the centenary of the most influential horror film of all time. The turning point in the care...
DVD And Blu-ray
The Love of Jeanne Ney
An epic of Weimar silent cinema, The Love Of Jeanne Ney follows the adventures of a young French woman amidst the chaos of post-World War I Europe. Blending ‘American style’ big-studio blockbuster, with the eerie camerawork an...
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Roy Budd’s Phantom
In October last year, after a 24 year wait, Roy Budd‘s previously unheard score for the silent classic, The Phantom Of The Opera premiered in the spectacular surrounds of the London Coliseum. The premier, brought Budd’s c...
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Globe Does Film
At 8pm on Monday 19th September, Carl Theodor Dreyer’s classic 1928 silent film The Passion Of Joan Of Arc, will be screened in London’s iconic Globe Theatre. Adrian Utley (Portishead) and Will Gregory (Goldfrapp) have cr...
