The Year 1905 in Film: The Debuts of Max Linder, China, Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia
A review of significant events in the year 1905 in film and profiles of the principle players behind them. Includes a YouTube playlist of over 13 hours.
Category: Italian Cinema
The Year 1906 in Film: The Debuts of Éclipse, Feuillade, Bosetti and Finland
A review of significant events in the year 1906 in film and profiles of the principle players behind them. Includes a YouTube playlist of nearly 20 hours.
The Year 1908 in Film: The Debuts of Detective Films, Film d’Art, Peplum, Griffith and the Russian Film Industry
The Year 1908 in Film: The Debuts of Detective Films, Film d’Art, Peplum, Griffith and the Russian Film Industry. Includes a YouTube playlist.
Tulipomania, Faunophobia and Copyright: a Pathé Mystery
A Pathé film of uncertain date has long been identified as Les Tulipes (1907).
Last Known Address (1970)
Film review by Dan Willard. This French/Italian production is a noirish police procedural that has aged rather well.
The Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola (1913)
Film review by Dan Willard. The Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola is an engaging hodgepodge of fantasy, comedy, adventure, and science fiction.
Story of a Love Affair (1950)
Film review by Dan Willard. Michelangelo Antonioni’s feature film debut breaks away from the then dominant Italian Neorealism style of filmmaking.
Lady of the Camelias (1981)
Film review by Dan Willard. Supposedly the true story of Marie Duplessis, the French courtesan who inspired the novel LA DAME AUX CAMELIA, which when adapted into a play became the inspiration for Verdi’s LA TRAVIATA and numerous films.
Ostia (1970)
Film review by Dan Willard. Cowritten and produced by Pier Paolo Pasolini, OSTIA is the story of two brothers who turn on each other after a beautiful woman comes between them.
Via Margutta (1960)
Film review by Dan Willard. A slice of life type of film set in Rome where a group of artists struggle for recognition and in their love lives.
