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October 6, 2020 By anita

Soleil et Ombre

Musidora, like many of her female colleagues, is remembered primarily as an actress rather than a filmmaker. A producer and screenwriter, she was also director or codirector of four silent films, and some have credited her with an additional three. Her fame as Irma Vep, the anti-heroine of Louis … [Read more...] about Soleil et Ombre

Filed Under: Essay

August 30, 2020 By anita

DJ Spooky

Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, is an artist and composer with an affinity for silent film. In 2004 he premiered his live remix of D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation—Rebirth of a Nation— at New York’s Lincoln Center and has composed for Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s Earth and Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of … [Read more...] about DJ Spooky

Filed Under: Musicians at SFSFF

April 1, 2020 By anita

How to Kill a Villain

This feature was published in conjunction with the screening of The Phantom of the Opera at A Day of Silents 2019 The version of The Phantom of the Opera that we see today does not share the melancholy ending of Gaston Leroux’s source novel. A villain dying of a broken heart did not satisfy … [Read more...] about How to Kill a Villain

Filed Under: Feature

April 1, 2020 By anita

The Phantom of the Opera

Before Dracula, before Frankenstein, before the Universal Pictures Corporation understood there was money to be made scaring the bejesus out of its audience, there was the Phantom. He is the unholy spawn of three mismatched parents: a French writer who claimed his fiction was fact-based, a brilliant … [Read more...] about The Phantom of the Opera

Filed Under: Essay

April 1, 2020 By anita

Acting Like Lubitsch

This feature was published in conjunction with the screening of The Marriage Circle at A Day of Silents 2019 A stage actor before he was a film director Ernst Lubitsch was notorious for acting out the roles for his performers down to the smallest gesture. As exasperating as it may have been to … [Read more...] about Acting Like Lubitsch

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April 1, 2020 By anita

The Marriage Circle

Ernst Lubitsch’s marriage movies are sophisticated, witty, and timeless, and one of the best is his 1924 film, The Marriage Circle. It takes place in Vienna, “the city of laughter and light romance,” and it begins with an unexpected focus: a man has a hole in the toe of his sock. It’s a very … [Read more...] about The Marriage Circle

Filed Under: Essay

April 1, 2020 By anita

Woman’s Place in Photoplay Production

This historical reprint was published in conjunction with the screening of the Woman with a Movie Camera program at A Day of Silents 2019 It has long been a source of wonder to me that many women have not seized upon the wonderful opportunities offered to them by the motion picture art to make … [Read more...] about Woman’s Place in Photoplay Production

Filed Under: Historical Reprint

April 1, 2020 By anita

Woman with a Movie Camera: The Films of Alice Guy Blaché

When she died in 1968 at ninety-five years old, Alice Guy Blaché believed that all but a handful of her titles were lost. In a career that began at the beginning of movies, Guy had written, produced, and/or directed about a thousand, including one hundred sound films long before talkies. After a … [Read more...] about Woman with a Movie Camera: The Films of Alice Guy Blaché

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