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Post by claudius on Jan 23, 2023 22:36:43 GMT
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood. Actually, this might be my favorite documentary of any kind. Six part doc about the Silent era in Europe, from 1913-about 1930. Separate episodes about the Silents in Germany, Scandinavia, France and Great Britain (only qualm, no Russia). Full of great scenes from movies I had not heard of before. And narrated by Kenneth Branagh, who really knocks it out of the park. All six episodes are on YouTube The final Kevin Brownlow/David Gill collaboration (and Kiev’s first with Branagh as narrator). First read about it in 1996, but didn’t have TCM yet. Finally saw it on the channel in the fall of 1997. Good series.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Jan 24, 2023 21:55:53 GMT
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood. Actually, this might be my favorite documentary of any kind. Six part doc about the Silent era in Europe, from 1913-about 1930. Separate episodes about the Silents in Germany, Scandinavia, France and Great Britain (only qualm, no Russia). Full of great scenes from movies I had not heard of before. And narrated by Kenneth Branagh, who really knocks it out of the park. All six episodes are on YouTube Cinema Europe is excellent and a must-watch for any movie buff. However I rank Hollywood as #1 for a number of reasons. Brownlow was able to get interviews with many major figures just in the nick of time; some of them died before the series aired. Having such a direct link to the era gives many of the interviews a very touching quality, such as when the old stuntmen talk about their colleagues who died in on-set accidents during filming. And I prefer James Mason as a narrator to Branagh -- although Branagh is better than Lindsay Anderson, who Brownlow unfortunately used after Mason's death.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jan 24, 2023 23:33:34 GMT
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood. Actually, this might be my favorite documentary of any kind. Six part doc about the Silent era in Europe, from 1913-about 1930. Separate episodes about the Silents in Germany, Scandinavia, France and Great Britain (only qualm, no Russia). Full of great scenes from movies I had not heard of before. And narrated by Kenneth Branagh, who really knocks it out of the park. All six episodes are on YouTube Cinema Europe is excellent and a must-watch for any movie buff. However I rank Hollywood as #1 for a number of reasons. Brownlow was able to get interviews with many major figures just in the nick of time; some of them died before the series aired. Having such a direct link to the era gives many of the interviews a very touching quality, such as when the old stuntmen talk about their colleagues who died in on-set accidents during filming. And I prefer James Mason as a narrator to Branagh -- although Branagh is better than Lindsay Anderson, who Brownlow unfortunately used after Mason's death. Brownlow's Hollywood was amazing. But Cinema Europe was better for me because I learned so much from it. There were very few movies in CE that even heard of. Metropolis, Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu to name some that I was familiar with. But so many I found through the documentary. La Roue, Pitz Palu almost all of the Scandinavian films. I actually grabbed a notepad and wrote down movie titles to look for later.
Odd that they didn't do Russian cinema. There was a lot more than Eisenstein.
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Post by london777 on Jan 29, 2023 23:07:26 GMT
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood. Actually, this might be my favorite documentary of any kind. Six part doc about the Silent era in Europe, from 1913-about 1930. Separate episodes about the Silents in Germany, Scandinavia, France and Great Britain (only qualm, no Russia). Full of great scenes from movies I had not heard of before. And narrated by Kenneth Branagh, who really knocks it out of the park. All six episodes are on YouTube You are indeed a good man for drawing this to my attention. I have just watched all six episodes. When I think of silent films I first think of Germany and Russia. Bizarre that the latter was hardly mentioned. What do you think was the reason for that? Lack of available clips? Copyrights must have expired by now. I learned a lot from each episode, but most from the Swedish one. I say 'Swedish' because the Scandinavian one was heavily biased towards Sweden. I was. of course. aware of Victor Sjöström, being a Wild Strawberries obsessive, but had not realised how advanced his films were for their day. The French and Sound episodes were a bit chaotic and hard to follow. Just too many famous names in the French, and too much happening in too many countries once sound was imminent. I do not weep over the demise of silents. The loss of a truly international art-form is to be regretted, but this is more than compensated for by the advantages. I have a family connection to the Brit section. My father had a building material business and bought the Hepworth Studion site (I think it was called Nettlefold then) as a storage yard when the studios finally collapsed after successive underfunded takeovers. I also remember Hepworth's modest family house still existed after the war. When it was knocked down to build a department store there were a few stories about him as a local personality still remembered by a few older citizens, but no campaign to save what was effectively the world's first film studio. I do not know if anyone actually realised that was the case.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jan 29, 2023 23:15:16 GMT
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood. Actually, this might be my favorite documentary of any kind. Six part doc about the Silent era in Europe, from 1913-about 1930. Separate episodes about the Silents in Germany, Scandinavia, France and Great Britain (only qualm, no Russia). Full of great scenes from movies I had not heard of before. And narrated by Kenneth Branagh, who really knocks it out of the park. All six episodes are on YouTube You are indeed a good man for drawing this to my attention. I have just watched all six episodes. When I think of silent films I first think of Germany and Russia. Bizarre that the latter was hardly mentioned. What do you think was the reason for that? Lack of available clips? Copyrights must have expired by now. I learned a lot from each episode, but most from the Swedish one. I say 'Swedish' because the Scandinavian one was heavily biased towards Sweden. I was. of course. aware of Victor Sjöström, being a Wild Strawberries obsessive, but had not realised how advanced his films were for their day. The French and Sound episodes were a bit chaotic and hard to follow. Just too many famous names in the French, and too much happening in too many countries once sound was imminent. I do not weep over the demise of silents. The loss of a truly international art-form is to be regretted, but this is more than compensated for by the advantages. I have a family connection to the Brit section. My father had a building material business and bought the Hepworth Studion site (I think it was called Nettlefold then) as a storage yard when the studios finally collapsed after successive underfunded takeovers. I also remember Hepworth's modest family house still existed after the war. When it was knocked down to build a department store there were a few stories about him as a local personality still remembered by a few older citizens, but no campaign to save what was effectively the world's first film studio. I do not know if anyone actually realised that was the case. glad you liked it. I have no explanation as to why they didn't include the Russian silents. Maybe because one of the most famous Soviet films of the era, Alexandr Nevski, isn't a silent?
I love the Silents but I can't weep over their demise. Sound was inevitable.
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Post by hi224 on Jan 31, 2023 21:15:17 GMT
Well not released yet of course however Coppola's new film is getting a doc.
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Post by mortsahlfan on Feb 25, 2023 15:06:05 GMT
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