Archive for March, 2010
Frankenstein is a 1910 film made by Edison Studios that was written and directed by J. Searle Dawley. It was the first motion picture adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Shot in three days, it was filmed at the Edison Studios in the Bronx, New York City. Although some sources credit Thomas Edison as the producer, he in fact played no direct part in the activities of the motion picture company that bore his name.
The End of St Petersburg was to be Pudovkin’s most famous film and secured his place as one of the foremost Soviet montage film directors.
The film forms part of Pudovkin’s ‘revolutionary trilogy’, alongside Mother (1926) and Storm Over Asia (1928).
A man named Francis relates a story about his best friend Alan and his fiancée Jane. Alan takes him to a fair where they meet Dr. Caligari, who exhibits a somnambulist, Cesare, that can predict the future. When Alan asks how long he has to live, Cesare says he has until dawn.
The Oyster Princess is a grotesque comedy presented in 4 acts about an American millionaire’s spoiled daughter’s marriage that just doesn’t go as planned. There is confusion and controversy, but also an amazing dance scene. It was released in 1919 and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. This was among his more famous, which earned fame from his intangible use of style and sophistication in this movie among others. The term for his style was later dubbed “The Lubitsch Touch”.
Features a jazz music score compiled by Euterpe Jones.
Another movie about the American civil war by D.W.Griffith.
This movie directed by D.W. Griffith it’s a story about Klu KluK Clan, it was extremely controversial at that time..
Lillian Gish is the star of this drama, about a blockhouse under siege by marauding Indians, until the cavalry arrives at the nick of time. Griffith believed this to be the best film he had done up to that time, and it was one of his most popular two-reelers, as well as one that pointed the way towards the large spic productions like The Birth of a Nation, that would follow.
