Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood - Episode V - Opportunity Lost - 1995



Country: United Kingdom 
Language: English | German | French | Italian | Swedish | Danish
Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Sidney Gilliat
Release Date: 1 October 1995 (UK)
Also known as: "El cine en Europa: El otro Hollywood" (Venezuela); "Kino Europa - Die Kunst der bewegten Bilder" (Germany); "Loin de Hollywood - L'art européen du cinéma muet" (France)
Production Co: Photoplay Productions
Runtime: 348 min (6 episodes)
Color: Black and White  | Color
Plot Keywords: European | Film Clip | 1920s | 1910s | TV Mini-Series  | Italy | France | Silent Film Maker | Continent In Title | Film History | Europe | Denmark | Show Business | Norway | Silent Filmmaking | Nostalgia | Italian Cinema | England | Georges Melies | Sweden | Film Industry | Interview | Scandinavia | Film Making | 1900s | Reminiscence | Germany | Silent Film Star
Genres: Documentary | History
Chronicles the birth of European cinema, from the Lumiere brothers to World War I, and then the first golden age of Swedish cinema, from the formation of Svenska Bio to the departure for Hollywood of Stiller and Sjöström. The French build the first studio, invent the traveling shot, and experiment in sound. Max Linder becomes the first comedic star. The Italians do spectacle and early realism. Germans invent film propaganda and have Lubitsch. The Danish cinema is rich before the war. An affectionate portrait of Swedish cinema appreciates its cinematography, led by Jaenzon, its conversion of novels into film, and the emergence of a production company that owned its own theaters.
Connections
Follows Hollywood (1980) (TV Mini-Series)
References
Girl from Stormy Croft (1917); Mästerkatten i stövlar (1918); Ingmarssönerna (1919); Prostitution (1919); In Quest of Happiness (1919); The Queen of Sheba (1921); The Road to London (1921); Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921); Sherlock Holmes (1922); Oliver Twist (1922); A Lowland Cinderella (1922); Woman to Woman (1923); If Winter Comes (1923); The Only Woman (1924); The Phantom of the Opera (1925); Mantrap (1926); Beau Geste (1926); It (1927); Venus im Frack (1927); The Jazz Singer (1927); Love (1927); The Last Command (1928); The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928); The Actress (1928); Skirts (1928); The Silver King (1929); Queen Christina (1933); The Seventh Seal (1957)
Features
Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
Tables Turned on the Gardener (1895)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
Baby's Dinner (1895)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
Joueurs de cartes arrosés (1896)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
Leaving Jerusalem by Railway (1897)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
La tour Eiffel (1900)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
Grandma's Reading Glass (1900)
Fire! (1901)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
A Photographic Contortion (1901)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
Sick Kitten (1903)
Daylight Burglary (1903)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
Rescued by Rover (1905)
Anna, qu'est-ce que t'attends? (1906)
Mother Holly (1906)
Emigrant (1910)
Bedraget i døden (1911)
Trädgårdsmästaren (1912)
Bunny at the Derby (1912)
Dr. Brian Pellie and the Secret Dispatch (1912)
Milling the Militants (1913)
Mannekängen (1913)
Hamlet (1913)
Ivanhoe (1913)
Ingeborg Holm (1913)
Trilby (1914)
Down with Weapons (1914)
Excerpt shown in Part 1: "Where It All Began"
Homunculus, 1. Teil (1916)
A Man There Was (1917)
Thomas Graals bästa film (1917)
The Invasion of Britain (1918)
excerpt shown in part 1: "how it all began"
You and I (1918)
The Poet's Windfall (1918)
Thomas Graals bästa barn (1918)
Opium (1919)
Sången om den eldröda blomman (1919)
I Accuse (1919)
Excerpt shown in Part 1: "How It All Began"
Different from the Others (1919)
My Lady Margarine (1919)
Herr Arnes pengar (1919)
Madame DuBarry (1919)
Die Spinnen, 1. Teil - Der Goldene See (1919)
Fairy of Solbakken (1919)
Die Herrin der Welt 1. Teil - Die Freundin des gelben Mannes (1919)
The Doll (1919)
Little Dorrit (1920)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
At the Villa Rose (1920)
Helen of Four Gates (1920)
The Parson's Widow (1920)
The Golem (1920)
Erotikon (1920)
Anna Boleyn (1920)
Gyurkovicsarna (1920)
The Phantom Carriage (1921)
Johan (1921)
Fox Farm (1922)
Rob Roy (1922)
Vem dömer (1922)
Nosferatu (1922)
The Bohemian Girl (1922)
Squibs Wins the Calcutta Sweep (1922)
Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922)
Phantom (1922)
Luffar-Petter (1922)
The Blizzard (1923)
The Taming of the Shrew (1923)
Raskolnikow (1923)
Comin' Thro the Rye (1923)
Siegfried (1924)
Gösta Berlings saga (1924)
Réveille (1924)
The Last Laugh (1924)
Wenn die Filmkleberin gebummelt hat (1925)
KIPHO (1925)
Charles XII (1925)
Karl XII, del II (1925)
The Joyless Street (1925)
Slums of Berlin (1925)
The Pleasure Garden (1925)
Jealousy (1925)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1926)
Nell Gwyn (1926)
Faust (1926)
Dokument-Film Nr. 1 der Tobis-Melofilm G.m.b.H. (1927)
Metropolis (1927)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
Napoleon (1927)
The Loves of Casanova (1927)
Fanny Hawthorne (1927)
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927)
Der Geisterzug (1927)
The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)
The Somme (1927)
The Constant Nymph (1928)
The Victoria Girls (1928)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Balaclava (1928)
Shooting Stars (1928)
Underground (1929)
Drifters (1929)
Pandora's Box (1929)
Piccadilly (1929)
High Treason (1929)
White Cargo (1929)
Kitty (1929)
Blackmail (1929)
City of Play (1929)
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Escape from Dartmoor (1929)
White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)
The Three Masks (1929)
Atlantic (1929)
Elstree Calling (1930)
Part of a clip of Lily Morris singing "Why Am I Always a Bridesmaid?" from Elstree Calling is included in Cinema Europe.
People on Sunday (1930)
The Blue Angel (1930)
Beauty Prize (1930)
Three Good Friends (1930)
La canzone dell'amore (1930)
End of the World (1931)
Le Million (1931)
Der Kongreß tanzt (1931)
Kameradschaft (1931)
Le parfum de la dame en noir (1931)
À Nous la Liberté (1931)
A Game of Chance (1932)
Here's Berlin (1932)
The Blue Light (1932)
Dawn (1933)
The Private Life of Henry VIII. (1933)
Triumph of the Will (1935)
Wild Strawberries (1957)

Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood - Episode IV - The Music of Light - 1995



Country: United Kingdom
Language: English | German | French | Italian | Swedish | Danish
Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Sidney Gilliat
Release Date: 1 October 1995 (UK)
Also known as: "El cine en Europa: El otro Hollywood" (Venezuela); "Kino Europa - Die Kunst der bewegten Bilder" (Germany); "Loin de Hollywood - L'art européen du cinéma muet" (France)
Production Co: Photoplay Productions
Runtime: 348 min (6 episodes)
Color: Black and White  | Color
Plot Keywords: European | Film Clip | 1920s | 1910s | TV Mini-Series  | Italy | France | Silent Film Maker | Continent In Title | Film History | Europe | Denmark | Show Business | Norway | Silent Filmmaking | Nostalgia | Italian Cinema | England | Georges Melies | Sweden | Film Industry | Interview | Scandinavia | Film Making | 1900s | Reminiscence | Germany | Silent Film Star
Genres: Documentary | History
Chronicles the birth of European cinema, from the Lumiere brothers to World War I, and then the first golden age of Swedish cinema, from the formation of Svenska Bio to the departure for Hollywood of Stiller and Sjöström. The French build the first studio, invent the traveling shot, and experiment in sound. Max Linder becomes the first comedic star. The Italians do spectacle and early realism. Germans invent film propaganda and have Lubitsch. The Danish cinema is rich before the war. An affectionate portrait of Swedish cinema appreciates its cinematography, led by Jaenzon, its conversion of novels into film, and the emergence of a production company that owned its own theaters.
Connections
Follows Hollywood (1980) (TV Mini-Series)
References
Girl from Stormy Croft (1917); Mästerkatten i stövlar (1918); Ingmarssönerna (1919); Prostitution (1919); In Quest of Happiness (1919); The Queen of Sheba (1921); The Road to London (1921); Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921); Sherlock Holmes (1922); Oliver Twist (1922); A Lowland Cinderella (1922); Woman to Woman (1923); If Winter Comes (1923); The Only Woman (1924); The Phantom of the Opera (1925); Mantrap (1926); Beau Geste (1926); It (1927); Venus im Frack (1927); The Jazz Singer (1927); Love (1927); The Last Command (1928); The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928); The Actress (1928); Skirts (1928); The Silver King (1929); Queen Christina (1933); The Seventh Seal (1957)
Features
Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
Tables Turned on the Gardener (1895)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
Baby's Dinner (1895)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
Joueurs de cartes arrosés (1896)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
Leaving Jerusalem by Railway (1897)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
La tour Eiffel (1900)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
Grandma's Reading Glass (1900)
Fire! (1901)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
A Photographic Contortion (1901)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
Sick Kitten (1903)
Daylight Burglary (1903)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
Rescued by Rover (1905)
Anna, qu'est-ce que t'attends? (1906)
Mother Holly (1906)
Emigrant (1910)
Bedraget i døden (1911)
Trädgårdsmästaren (1912)
Bunny at the Derby (1912)
Dr. Brian Pellie and the Secret Dispatch (1912)
Milling the Militants (1913)
Mannekängen (1913)
Hamlet (1913)
Ivanhoe (1913)
Ingeborg Holm (1913)
Trilby (1914)
Down with Weapons (1914)
Excerpt shown in Part 1: "Where It All Began"
Homunculus, 1. Teil (1916)
A Man There Was (1917)
Thomas Graals bästa film (1917)
The Invasion of Britain (1918)
excerpt shown in part 1: "how it all began"
You and I (1918)
The Poet's Windfall (1918)
Thomas Graals bästa barn (1918)
Opium (1919)
Sången om den eldröda blomman (1919)
I Accuse (1919)
Excerpt shown in Part 1: "How It All Began"
Different from the Others (1919)
My Lady Margarine (1919)
Herr Arnes pengar (1919)
Madame DuBarry (1919)
Die Spinnen, 1. Teil - Der Goldene See (1919)
Fairy of Solbakken (1919)
Die Herrin der Welt 1. Teil - Die Freundin des gelben Mannes (1919)
The Doll (1919)
Little Dorrit (1920)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
At the Villa Rose (1920)
Helen of Four Gates (1920)
The Parson's Widow (1920)
The Golem (1920)
Erotikon (1920)
Anna Boleyn (1920)
Gyurkovicsarna (1920)
The Phantom Carriage (1921)
Johan (1921)
Fox Farm (1922)
Rob Roy (1922)
Vem dömer (1922)
Nosferatu (1922)
The Bohemian Girl (1922)
Squibs Wins the Calcutta Sweep (1922)
Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922)
Phantom (1922)
Luffar-Petter (1922)
The Blizzard (1923)
The Taming of the Shrew (1923)
Raskolnikow (1923)
Comin' Thro the Rye (1923)
Siegfried (1924)
Gösta Berlings saga (1924)
Réveille (1924)
The Last Laugh (1924)
Wenn die Filmkleberin gebummelt hat (1925)
KIPHO (1925)
Charles XII (1925)
Karl XII, del II (1925)
The Joyless Street (1925)
Slums of Berlin (1925)
The Pleasure Garden (1925)
Jealousy (1925)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1926)
Nell Gwyn (1926)
Faust (1926)
Dokument-Film Nr. 1 der Tobis-Melofilm G.m.b.H. (1927)
Metropolis (1927)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
Napoleon (1927)
The Loves of Casanova (1927)
Fanny Hawthorne (1927)
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927)
Der Geisterzug (1927)
The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)
The Somme (1927)
The Constant Nymph (1928)
The Victoria Girls (1928)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Balaclava (1928)
Shooting Stars (1928)
Underground (1929)
Drifters (1929)
Pandora's Box (1929)
Piccadilly (1929)
High Treason (1929)
White Cargo (1929)
Kitty (1929)
Blackmail (1929)
City of Play (1929)
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Escape from Dartmoor (1929)
White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)
The Three Masks (1929)
Atlantic (1929)
Elstree Calling (1930)
Part of a clip of Lily Morris singing "Why Am I Always a Bridesmaid?" from Elstree Calling is included in Cinema Europe.
People on Sunday (1930)
The Blue Angel (1930)
Beauty Prize (1930)
Three Good Friends (1930)
La canzone dell'amore (1930)
End of the World (1931)
Le Million (1931)
Der Kongreß tanzt (1931)
Kameradschaft (1931)
Le parfum de la dame en noir (1931)
À Nous la Liberté (1931)
A Game of Chance (1932)
Here's Berlin (1932)
The Blue Light (1932)
Dawn (1933)
The Private Life of Henry VIII. (1933)
Triumph of the Will (1935)
Wild Strawberries (1957) 

Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood - Episode III - The Unchained Camera - 1995



Country: United Kingdom
Language: English | German | French | Italian | Swedish | Danish
Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Sidney Gilliat
Release Date: 1 October 1995 (UK)
Also known as: "El cine en Europa: El otro Hollywood" (Venezuela); "Kino Europa - Die Kunst der bewegten Bilder" (Germany); "Loin de Hollywood - L'art européen du cinéma muet" (France)
Production Co: Photoplay Productions
Runtime: 348 min (6 episodes)
Color: Black and White  | Color
Plot Keywords: European | Film Clip | 1920s | 1910s | TV Mini-Series  | Italy | France | Silent Film Maker | Continent In Title | Film History | Europe | Denmark | Show Business | Norway | Silent Filmmaking | Nostalgia | Italian Cinema | England | Georges Melies | Sweden | Film Industry | Interview | Scandinavia | Film Making | 1900s | Reminiscence | Germany | Silent Film Star
Genres: Documentary | History
Chronicles the birth of European cinema, from the Lumiere brothers to World War I, and then the first golden age of Swedish cinema, from the formation of Svenska Bio to the departure for Hollywood of Stiller and Sjöström. The French build the first studio, invent the traveling shot, and experiment in sound. Max Linder becomes the first comedic star. The Italians do spectacle and early realism. Germans invent film propaganda and have Lubitsch. The Danish cinema is rich before the war. An affectionate portrait of Swedish cinema appreciates its cinematography, led by Jaenzon, its conversion of novels into film, and the emergence of a production company that owned its own theaters.
Connections
Follows Hollywood (1980) (TV Mini-Series)
References
Girl from Stormy Croft (1917); Mästerkatten i stövlar (1918); Ingmarssönerna (1919); Prostitution (1919); In Quest of Happiness (1919); The Queen of Sheba (1921); The Road to London (1921); Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921); Sherlock Holmes (1922); Oliver Twist (1922); A Lowland Cinderella (1922); Woman to Woman (1923); If Winter Comes (1923); The Only Woman (1924); The Phantom of the Opera (1925); Mantrap (1926); Beau Geste (1926); It (1927); Venus im Frack (1927); The Jazz Singer (1927); Love (1927); The Last Command (1928); The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928); The Actress (1928); Skirts (1928); The Silver King (1929); Queen Christina (1933); The Seventh Seal (1957)
Features
Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
Tables Turned on the Gardener (1895)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
Baby's Dinner (1895)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
Joueurs de cartes arrosés (1896)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
Leaving Jerusalem by Railway (1897)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
La tour Eiffel (1900)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
Grandma's Reading Glass (1900)
Fire! (1901)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
A Photographic Contortion (1901)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
Sick Kitten (1903)
Daylight Burglary (1903)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
Rescued by Rover (1905)
Anna, qu'est-ce que t'attends? (1906)
Mother Holly (1906)
Emigrant (1910)
Bedraget i døden (1911)
Trädgårdsmästaren (1912)
Bunny at the Derby (1912)
Dr. Brian Pellie and the Secret Dispatch (1912)
Milling the Militants (1913)
Mannekängen (1913)
Hamlet (1913)
Ivanhoe (1913)
Ingeborg Holm (1913)
Trilby (1914)
Down with Weapons (1914)
Excerpt shown in Part 1: "Where It All Began"
Homunculus, 1. Teil (1916)
A Man There Was (1917)
Thomas Graals bästa film (1917)
The Invasion of Britain (1918)
excerpt shown in part 1: "how it all began"
You and I (1918)
The Poet's Windfall (1918)
Thomas Graals bästa barn (1918)
Opium (1919)
Sången om den eldröda blomman (1919)
I Accuse (1919)
Excerpt shown in Part 1: "How It All Began"
Different from the Others (1919)
My Lady Margarine (1919)
Herr Arnes pengar (1919)
Madame DuBarry (1919)
Die Spinnen, 1. Teil - Der Goldene See (1919)
Fairy of Solbakken (1919)
Die Herrin der Welt 1. Teil - Die Freundin des gelben Mannes (1919)
The Doll (1919)
Little Dorrit (1920)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
At the Villa Rose (1920)
Helen of Four Gates (1920)
The Parson's Widow (1920)
The Golem (1920)
Erotikon (1920)
Anna Boleyn (1920)
Gyurkovicsarna (1920)
The Phantom Carriage (1921)
Johan (1921)
Fox Farm (1922)
Rob Roy (1922)
Vem dömer (1922)
Nosferatu (1922)
The Bohemian Girl (1922)
Squibs Wins the Calcutta Sweep (1922)
Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922)
Phantom (1922)
Luffar-Petter (1922)
The Blizzard (1923)
The Taming of the Shrew (1923)
Raskolnikow (1923)
Comin' Thro the Rye (1923)
Siegfried (1924)
Gösta Berlings saga (1924)
Réveille (1924)
The Last Laugh (1924)
Wenn die Filmkleberin gebummelt hat (1925)
KIPHO (1925)
Charles XII (1925)
Karl XII, del II (1925)
The Joyless Street (1925)
Slums of Berlin (1925)
The Pleasure Garden (1925)
Jealousy (1925)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1926)
Nell Gwyn (1926)
Faust (1926)
Dokument-Film Nr. 1 der Tobis-Melofilm G.m.b.H. (1927)
Metropolis (1927)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
Napoleon (1927)
The Loves of Casanova (1927)
Fanny Hawthorne (1927)
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927)
Der Geisterzug (1927)
The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)
The Somme (1927)
The Constant Nymph (1928)
The Victoria Girls (1928)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Balaclava (1928)
Shooting Stars (1928)
Underground (1929)
Drifters (1929)
Pandora's Box (1929)
Piccadilly (1929)
High Treason (1929)
White Cargo (1929)
Kitty (1929)
Blackmail (1929)
City of Play (1929)
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Escape from Dartmoor (1929)
White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)
The Three Masks (1929)
Atlantic (1929)
Elstree Calling (1930)
Part of a clip of Lily Morris singing "Why Am I Always a Bridesmaid?" from Elstree Calling is included in Cinema Europe.
People on Sunday (1930)
The Blue Angel (1930)
Beauty Prize (1930)
Three Good Friends (1930)
La canzone dell'amore (1930)
End of the World (1931)
Le Million (1931)
Der Kongreß tanzt (1931)
Kameradschaft (1931)
Le parfum de la dame en noir (1931)
À Nous la Liberté (1931)
A Game of Chance (1932)
Here's Berlin (1932)
The Blue Light (1932)
Dawn (1933)
The Private Life of Henry VIII. (1933)
Triumph of the Will (1935)
Wild Strawberries (1957)

Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood - Episode II - Art's Promised Land - 1995



Country: United Kingdom
Language: English | German | French | Italian | Swedish | Danish
Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Sidney Gilliat
Release Date: 1 October 1995 (UK)
Also known as: "El cine en Europa: El otro Hollywood" (Venezuela); "Kino Europa - Die Kunst der bewegten Bilder" (Germany); "Loin de Hollywood - L'art européen du cinéma muet" (France)
Production Co: Photoplay Productions
Runtime: 348 min (6 episodes)
Color: Black and White  | Color
Plot Keywords: European | Film Clip | 1920s | 1910s | TV Mini-Series  | Italy | France | Silent Film Maker | Continent In Title | Film History | Europe | Denmark | Show Business | Norway | Silent Filmmaking | Nostalgia | Italian Cinema | England | Georges Melies | Sweden | Film Industry | Interview | Scandinavia | Film Making | 1900s | Reminiscence | Germany | Silent Film Star
Genres: Documentary | History
Chronicles the birth of European cinema, from the Lumiere brothers to World War I, and then the first golden age of Swedish cinema, from the formation of Svenska Bio to the departure for Hollywood of Stiller and Sjöström. The French build the first studio, invent the traveling shot, and experiment in sound. Max Linder becomes the first comedic star. The Italians do spectacle and early realism. Germans invent film propaganda and have Lubitsch. The Danish cinema is rich before the war. An affectionate portrait of Swedish cinema appreciates its cinematography, led by Jaenzon, its conversion of novels into film, and the emergence of a production company that owned its own theaters.
Connections
Follows Hollywood (1980) (TV Mini-Series)
References
Girl from Stormy Croft (1917); Mästerkatten i stövlar (1918); Ingmarssönerna (1919); Prostitution (1919); In Quest of Happiness (1919); The Queen of Sheba (1921); The Road to London (1921); Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921); Sherlock Holmes (1922); Oliver Twist (1922); A Lowland Cinderella (1922); Woman to Woman (1923); If Winter Comes (1923); The Only Woman (1924); The Phantom of the Opera (1925); Mantrap (1926); Beau Geste (1926); It (1927); Venus im Frack (1927); The Jazz Singer (1927); Love (1927); The Last Command (1928); The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928); The Actress (1928); Skirts (1928); The Silver King (1929); Queen Christina (1933); The Seventh Seal (1957)
Features
Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
Tables Turned on the Gardener (1895)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
Baby's Dinner (1895)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
Joueurs de cartes arrosés (1896)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
Leaving Jerusalem by Railway (1897)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
La tour Eiffel (1900)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
Grandma's Reading Glass (1900)
Fire! (1901)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
A Photographic Contortion (1901)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
Sick Kitten (1903)
Daylight Burglary (1903)
It's a documentary about silent european films.
Rescued by Rover (1905)
Anna, qu'est-ce que t'attends? (1906)
Mother Holly (1906)
Emigrant (1910)
Bedraget i døden (1911)
Trädgårdsmästaren (1912)
Bunny at the Derby (1912)
Dr. Brian Pellie and the Secret Dispatch (1912)
Milling the Militants (1913)
Mannekängen (1913)
Hamlet (1913)
Ivanhoe (1913)
Ingeborg Holm (1913)
Trilby (1914)
Down with Weapons (1914)
Excerpt shown in Part 1: "Where It All Began"
Homunculus, 1. Teil (1916)
A Man There Was (1917)
Thomas Graals bästa film (1917)
The Invasion of Britain (1918)
excerpt shown in part 1: "how it all began"
You and I (1918)
The Poet's Windfall (1918)
Thomas Graals bästa barn (1918)
Opium (1919)
Sången om den eldröda blomman (1919)
I Accuse (1919)
Excerpt shown in Part 1: "How It All Began"
Different from the Others (1919)
My Lady Margarine (1919)
Herr Arnes pengar (1919)
Madame DuBarry (1919)
Die Spinnen, 1. Teil - Der Goldene See (1919)
Fairy of Solbakken (1919)
Die Herrin der Welt 1. Teil - Die Freundin des gelben Mannes (1919)
The Doll (1919)
Little Dorrit (1920)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
At the Villa Rose (1920)
Helen of Four Gates (1920)
The Parson's Widow (1920)
The Golem (1920)
Erotikon (1920)
Anna Boleyn (1920)
Gyurkovicsarna (1920)
The Phantom Carriage (1921)
Johan (1921)
Fox Farm (1922)
Rob Roy (1922)
Vem dömer (1922)
Nosferatu (1922)
The Bohemian Girl (1922)
Squibs Wins the Calcutta Sweep (1922)
Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922)
Phantom (1922)
Luffar-Petter (1922)
The Blizzard (1923)
The Taming of the Shrew (1923)
Raskolnikow (1923)
Comin' Thro the Rye (1923)
Siegfried (1924)
Gösta Berlings saga (1924)
Réveille (1924)
The Last Laugh (1924)
Wenn die Filmkleberin gebummelt hat (1925)
KIPHO (1925)
Charles XII (1925)
Karl XII, del II (1925)
The Joyless Street (1925)
Slums of Berlin (1925)
The Pleasure Garden (1925)
Jealousy (1925)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1926)
Nell Gwyn (1926)
Faust (1926)
Dokument-Film Nr. 1 der Tobis-Melofilm G.m.b.H. (1927)
Metropolis (1927)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
Napoleon (1927)
The Loves of Casanova (1927)
Fanny Hawthorne (1927)
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927)
Der Geisterzug (1927)
The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)
The Somme (1927)
The Constant Nymph (1928)
The Victoria Girls (1928)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Balaclava (1928)
Shooting Stars (1928)
Underground (1929)
Drifters (1929)
Pandora's Box (1929)
Piccadilly (1929)
High Treason (1929)
White Cargo (1929)
Kitty (1929)
Blackmail (1929)
City of Play (1929)
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Escape from Dartmoor (1929)
White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)
The Three Masks (1929)
Atlantic (1929)
Elstree Calling (1930)
Part of a clip of Lily Morris singing "Why Am I Always a Bridesmaid?" from Elstree Calling is included in Cinema Europe.
People on Sunday (1930)
The Blue Angel (1930)
Beauty Prize (1930)
Three Good Friends (1930)
La canzone dell'amore (1930)
End of the World (1931)
Le Million (1931)
Der Kongreß tanzt (1931)
Kameradschaft (1931)
Le parfum de la dame en noir (1931)
À Nous la Liberté (1931)
A Game of Chance (1932)
Here's Berlin (1932)
The Blue Light (1932)
Dawn (1933)
The Private Life of Henry VIII. (1933)
Triumph of the Will (1935)
Wild Strawberries (1957)

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Dnevnik Glumova - 1923


Country: Soviet Union
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein
Stars: Grigori Aleksandrov, Aleksandr Antonov and Sergei M. Eisenstein
Also known as: Дневник Глумова (Soviet Union - Russian title); El diario de Glúmov (Spain); Glumov's Diary (undefined); Kinodnevik Glumova (Soviet Union - informal alternative title - Russian title); Le journal de Gloumov (France); O Diário de Gloumov (Portugal)
Production Co: Proletkult
Runtime: Russia: 5 min
Sound Mix: Silent
Color: Black and White
Genres: Short
Filmic insert to Eisenstein's modernized, free adaptation of Ostrovskiy's 19th-century Russian stage play, "The Wise Man" ("Na vsyakogo mudretsa dovolno prostoty"). The anti-hero Glumov tries to escape exposure in the midst of acrobatics, derring-do, and farcical clowning. Several members of Eisenstein's troupe at the legendary "Proletkult" stage theatre in Moscow briefly appear in this little film.
Trivia
Long assumed to be lost, this little debut film by Eisenstein (a year or two before "Strike") was re-discovered decades later, contained in a short newsreel compiled in 1923 by Dziga Vertov ("Spring Smiles of Proletkult").
The first film directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein.  

Le Savant et le Chimpanzé - 1900


Country: France
Director: Georges Méliès
Also known as: The Doctor and the Monkey (USA)
Production Co: Star-Film
Plot Keywords: Doctor | Monkey
Genres: Short | Comedy
An elderly doctor keeps a monkey in a cage. When he briefly pops out, the monkey breaks free, leaps onto a nearby table and begins to systematically wreck the doctor’s study. After overturning a cupboard, he climbs up the stairs to the doctor’s bedroom. The doctor grabs it by the tail, which comes off. While the monkey trashes the bedroom, the doctor is attempting to tame the tail, which has developed a life of its own. The tail affixes itself to his face, to the horror of the doctor’s maid, who comes in to assist, eventually pulling it off. While they attack the tail with various implements, the monkey smashes a hole through the bedroom floor and jumps through it into the study. The monkey then attacks the doctor, and then the maid, ripping off her skirt and leaving her in her petticoat. - http://filmjournal.net

Friday, July 6, 2012

Anna-Liisa - 1922


Country: Finland
Directors: Teuvo Puro, Jussi Snellman
Writers: Minna Canth (play), Jussi Snellman
Stars: Helmi Lindelöf, Hemmo Kallio and Meri Roini
Release Date: 20 March 1922 (Finland)
Also known as: Anna-Lisa (Finland) (Swedish title) / Sweden
Production Co: Suomi-Filmi
Sound Mix: Silent
Color: Black and White
Plot Keywords: Infanticide | Guilty Conscience | Moral | Log Driving | Country Life  |
Theatrical | Motherhood | Farm Hand | Love Triangle | Conscience | Illegitimate Child |
Fiancee | Marriage | Ex Fiancee | Based On Play | Character Name In Title
Genres: Drama
Anna-Liisa carries a secret. Three years ago she has killed her baby she had with Mikko, the old hired hand of Kortesuo (Einar Rinne). Now she's marrying Johannes (Emil Autere), when suddenly Mikko comes back. There's a danger the secret will come out. The guilt Anna-Liisa's bearing is overwhelming. Would it be better if they knew? Teuvo Puro and Jussi Snellman are the directors of Anna-Liisa (1922). It's based on the play of the fantastic Minna Canth, whose texts represented realism at very best. Helmi Lindelöf is brilliant as the main character. The other members of Anna-Liisa's family are played by Hemmo Kallio, Meri Roini and Greta Waahtera. Mimmi Lähteenoja plays Husso. All excellent performers. The dramatic elements of this silent movie are touching. The baby's murder and the guilt of a young woman that this movie and the original play tell about is a topic relevant in this day also. Times change but themes always remain the same.
The film is based on a play by Frau Minna Canth who was a very important Finnish writer and a champion of women's rights, a pioneer and combative Nordic feminist, ja wohl! This is reflected in the powerful and impressive feminine portrait of Anna-Liisa, tormented but valiant and determined, a woman who will decide her own fate, threats and coercion aside. She is excellently played by the actress Frau Helmi Lindelöf.
The dramatic and intense story of the film is equal to other Nordic rural dramas of those early silent times, such as those directed by masters like Herr Victor Sjöström and Herr Mauritz Stiller. Like them Herr Puro invokes nature as part of the dramatic development of the story. A flashback shows Frau Anna-Liisa's terrible deed which involves a hideous taboo that is still shocking nowadays. Still, there is atonement and Frau Anna-Liisa accepts responsibility for her past and consequently decides her future. Herr Puro brilliantly blends indoor sets which suggest the theater with the naturalism of the exterior scenes.
Connections
Version of Anna-Liisa (1911); Anna Liisa (1945); Anna-Liisa (1988) (TV Movie)
Featured in Sininen laulu - Suomen taiteiden tarina: Osa I Tällaisia me olemme 1900-1920 (2004) (TV Episode) - Clips shown