The Merry Widow / Erich von Stroheim (1925)
In Pordenone, Italy, David Robinson has opened the 29th edition of “Le giornate del cinema muto“, probably the oldest and most important silent film festival in the world. It is screening silent film from the 3rd to the 10th of October. This year, the festival is laden with classic old footage. Imagery dating back 100 years from the Russian ballet, as well as Dreyer’s Die Gezeichneten (1922) and Brown’s The Eagle (1925) will be exhibited to audiences. The festival revisits the cinematic canon with pride and precision. After 6000 silent films screened in 30 years of festival film culture, it is time to rethink the canon of silent cinema, just as Cherchi Usai asserts in the introduction of this section.
A bit of silent film passion in Australia too. The Australian Silent films festival will take place in Sydney in the Dixson Room of the State Library of NSW in Macquarie Street the 15, 18, 24 and 25 of October 2009. Small but interesting program with The Mark Of Zorro – 1920 (USA) The General – 1927 (USA) The Story of the Kelly Gang – 1906 (Australia) and The Sentimental Bloke – 1919 (Australia) Destiny – 1921 (Germany) Der Müde Tod, 7th Heaven – 1927 (USA) and more
Program of the Pordenone silent film festival
Eventi speciali/Special Events
The Merry Widow (Erich von Stroheim, US 1925) [3.10.09, 20:30]
A colpi di note/Striking a New Note [4.10.2009, 17:30]
Harmonies de Paris [4.10.2009, 23:15]
An audience with Jean Darling [6.10.2009, 14:30]
Der Golem [7.10.2009, 20:30]
The Rink [8.10.2009, 20:30]
Alice’s Wild West Show [10.10.2009, 20:30]
Ukulelescope [10.10.2009, 20:45]
Sherlock e gli altri/Sherlock and Beyond
Albatros
Il canone rivisitato/The Canon Revisited
Riscoperte e restauri/Rediscoveries and Restorations
Ballets Russes 100
Bois d’Arcy 40
Die Gezeichneten (Carl Theodor Dreyer, DE 1922)
The Eagle (Clarence Brown, US 1925)
Der Fürst von Pappenheim (Richard Eichberg, DE 1927)
Giornate di sole (Renato Spinotti, IT 1934)
La grazia (Aldo De Benedetti, IT 1929)
Die Kleine vom Varieté (Hanns Schwarz, DE 1926)
Kodachrome Two-Color Test Shots No. III (Eastman Kodak Company, US 1922)
Kurotegumi Sukeroku (Shochiku Shimokamo Studio, JP 1929)
The Letter from Hollywood (US, c. 1926)
Monkeys’ Moon (Kenneth Macpherson, GB 1929)
The Rose of Rhodesia (Harold Shaw, South Africa, 1917)
On Strike (Bud Fisher Films Corporation, US 1920)
The Three Kings/Ein Mädel und 3 Clowns (Hans Steinhoff, GB/DE 1928)
Eine versunkene Welt (Alexander Korda, Austria 1922)
Cinema delle origini/Early Cinema
Italo Pacchioni
The Corrick Collection, 3
Screen Decades
Omaggio al/Tribute to the British Silent Film Festival
Dive/Divas: Francesca Bertini, Pola Negri, Asta Nielsen
Cesare Gravina
Ritratti/Portraits
Abel Gance: The Charm of Dynamite (Kevin Brownlow, GB 1968)
Charlie Goes to School (Peter Wyeth, GB 2009)
Gedächtnis (Bruno Ganz, Otto Sander, BRD 1982)
Helsinki, ikuisesti (Peter von Bagh, FI 2008)
Heppy’s Daughter (Film Friends Productions, GB 2009)
L’Homme au chapeau de soie (Maud Linder, FR 1983)
Note su Sherlock Jr. di Buster Keaton (Francesco Ballo, Paolo Darra, IT 2009)
Muti del XXI secolo/21st Century Silents
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