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20 Eki CINEMA’S FIRST EPIDEMIC: FROM CONTAGIOUS TWITCHING TO CONVULSIVE LAUGHTER

Posted at 11:16h in English

By Maggie HennefeldThere was no funnier sight gag in early cinema than the catastrophe of epidemic contagion. In The Yawner (1907), a man’s involuntary yawning transmits irresistibly to his housekeeper, a squadron of military soldiers, day drinkers at a café, a police officer, and an inanimate portrait...

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19 Eki AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE SILENT FILM INDUSTRY

Posted at 15:00h in English

In the first decades of the twentieth century, five African-American women filmmakers helped to establish the US cinema industry and to better the representation of African-Americans on film. ...

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19 Eki WHY SOME LIKE IT HOT IS THE GREATEST COMEDY EVER MADE

Posted at 14:45h in English

by Nicholas Babrer In 1958, Tony Curtis was at a Hollywood party when Billy Wilder took him aside. Wilder was planning a film about two musicians who dress up as women to join an all-girl band, and he asked Curtis to play one of the musicians....

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16 Eki FILMATIQUE: INTERVIEW WITH PRANTIK NARAYAN BASU

Posted at 10:06h in English

Intervıew by Rıtıka Bıswas Guest Curator, Fılmatıque Prantik Narayan Basu is an Indian screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and film director.  Having studied Film Directing at the Film and Television Institute of India, his short film Sakhisona premiered at BFI London, Mumbai, and Rotterdam, where it won the...

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14 Eki ‘PANDORA’S BOX WITH THE LID OFF!’: LULU’S MISADVENTURES IN LONDON

Posted at 17:36h in English

by Pamela Hutchinson This is an extended version of a paper that I gave at the British Silent Film Festival Symposium at King’s College London on 7 April 2017. My book on Pandora’s Box (1929) is forthcoming from BFI Palgrave.W. Pabst’s Die Büchse der Pandora...

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13 Eki PARIS BELONGS TO US: NOTHING TOOK PLACE BUT THE PLACE

Posted at 15:42h in English

by Luc Sante Paris Belongs to Us, Jacques Rivette’s first feature, was written in 1957 and shot from July to November 1958. Had it been released in a timely fashion, it would have been one of the very first films of the French New Wave, appearing after...

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05 Eki WHERE TO BEGIN WITH EARLY WOMEN FILMMAKERS

Posted at 15:16h in English

Movies inspire a lot of passion, but the back catalogue of film history can be daunting. For every fan who’s obsessed with an actor, director or sub-genre, there’s another struggling to know where to start. Sometimes all it takes is the right recommendation to set you on your...

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05 Eki EARLY MURNAU REVIEW: A SET FOR THE SILENT CINEPHILE TO LINGER OVER

Posted at 15:08h in English

by Pamela Hutchinson The concept of “Early Murnau” is a little bittersweet. The German director had such a short career that the films in this new collection from Masters of Cinema take us up to just six years before he died. And while his most famous...

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05 Eki DR. WISE ON INFLUENZA: PUBLIC INFORMATION FILMS AND THE ‘FLU EPIDEMIC OF 1918

Posted at 14:48h in English

by Lawrence Napper"Whilst many persons are railing against the cinema as a disseminator of disease, there is, I am glad to find, one gentleman who is putting theatre to good account as an influenza combatant."Previously I reported on some of the debates that the influenza epidemic...

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23 Eyl BEYKOZ KUNDURA: FROM FACTORY TO CREATIVE HUB

Posted at 14:38h in English

The opening of Beykoz Kundura’s cinema not only offers cinephiles a unique selection of movies, it also brings the former leather and shoe factory a step closer to becoming a major cultural and artistic center. The historic site has a fascinating story to tell....

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