MARY PICKFORD: MUSE OF THE MOVIES is a 13-year project about the Canadian-born star's career and narrated by
Michael YORK, well-known British actor http://www.michaelyork.net/
of theater, films and T.V. the actor will attend the screening at Pordenone. THE PORDENONE INTERNATIONAL SILENT FILM FESTIVAL, Pordenone, Italy ( October 04 - October 11 )
Called in Italian “The Le Giornat
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies represents a 13-year labour of love and massive research: producer Elizabeth Wood Coldicutt and Nicholas Eliopoulos, a much-awarded producer-director-writer-editor both in features and documentary, embarked on the project in 1995 – in the lifetime and with the blessing of Buddy Rogers, Mary Pickford’s widower. The mass of rare material they have assembled includes archival in
Pordenone Silent Film Festival will run between 4-11 October.Events scheduled for the 27th edition of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival include the opening musical event, one of Mary Pickford's finest films, SPARROWS (1926; director William Beaudine).Festival sections will be dedicated to French comedy of the 1920s; "Hollywood on the Hudson" (New York-made features); the silent films of W.C. Fields; and the 12th and final section of the Giornate's monumental Griffith Project.A central feature w...
1920s 1928 Janet Gaynor - Seventh Heaven as "Diane", Street Angel as "Angela", and Sunrise as "The Wife (Indre)" Louise Dresser - A Ship Comes In as "Mrs. Pleznik" Gloria Swanson - Sadie Thompson as "Sadie Thompson" 1929 Mary Pickford - Coquette as "Norma Besant" Ruth Chatterton - Madame X as "Jacqueline Floriot" Betty Compson - The Barker as "Carrie" Jeanne Eagels - The Letter as "Leslie Crosbie" Corinne G...
The Screening Before the lights went down and the projector fired up, AFI FEST Director Christian Gaines welcomed audience members and attending artists to a special opening night. "I have to admit that it's both a pleasure and a bit of relief to kick things off tonight," he said. "Over the next 10 days, visitors from around the world and thousands of film fans will come to Hollywood to participate in this communal celebration of cinema, to yield to the experience and to honor th...
Hello. This is my first blog entry anywhere, ever. Our musuem is holding a film competition, awards ceremony to be held Septemeber 29, 2007. It is for silent film 18 minutes or shorter --no synchronized sound. We are doing this to promote the history of film making in our area. DW Griffith, Mack Sennett, James Kirkwood, Mary Pickford, the Gish sisters and many others came here in 1909 before they ever went to Los Angeles.Edwin Thanhouser will be giving a talk about film preservation an...
16TH WASHINGTON JEWISH FILM FESTIVALDecember 1 - 1140 films • 9 countries • 5 venues • 10 daysThe 16th Washington Jewish Film Festival: An Exhibition of International Cinema presents 40 features, documentaries and shorts from 9 countries, in five venues, during the December 1 – 11, ten-day Festival. The Festival is presented by the Washington DCJCC's Morris Cafritz Center for the Arts and co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel and Washington Jewish Week; and supported in part by a grant ...
THE 23RD SACILE-PORDENONE SILENT FILM FESTIVAL9-16 October 2004The programme of the 23rd edition of the Giornate del Cinema Muto, from 9-16 October 2004, will be the biggest and most ambitious to date, with both theatres - Teatro Zancanaro and Teatro Ruffo - running to capacity. The opening show will be a performance of Buster Keaton’s The General (1927), accompanied by the US-based Alloy Orchestra. Alloy's Ken Winokur has formed a new band called "Tillie's Nightmare" to accompany the new UCLA...
SILENT CLOWNS FILM SERIES BEGINS EIGHTH SEASON ON SEPTEMBER 19Live Music to Accompany Classic Silent Films The Silent Clowns Film Series, New York's longest running, regularly scheduled showcase for classic silent film comedy with movies featuring Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Laurel & Hardy, and more, kicks off on September 19, 2004. Every show in the series will feature live musical accompaniment by Ben Model, along with an introduction and Q&A with film historian Bruce Lawton...
Ever wonder who wrote, directed, starred in and produced the first independent film ever shot in Hollywood? Sound like a trivial pursuit question almost impossible to answer? The answer is probably a resounding “yes” for most moviegoers and filmmakers alike, but not for the organizers of the Beverly Hills Film Festival. This year’s festival will open with the first movie ever shot in Hollywood, “In Old California,” produced by the oldest movie company in America, Biograph Company....
