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2018

January 8, 2020 By kathy

Amazing Tales from the Archives 2018

Presenters: Robert Byrne, Martin Koerber, Russell Merritt, Davide Pozzi, Cynthia Walk, and Elzbieta Wysocka RESTORATION REDUX E.A. Dupont’s 1923 feature The Ancient Law, about the son of a rabbi who leaves the shtetl to become an actor, was reconstructed by the Deutsche Kinemathek in 1984 based … [Read more...] about Amazing Tales from the Archives 2018

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November 19, 2019 By Mara Nikolic

Adela Rogers St. John: A Front Row Seat

This feature was published in conjunction with the screening of The Red Kimona at A Day of Silents 2018 A character as vibrant and intrepid as any she created, Adela Rogers St. Johns was a journalist, novelist, and screenwriter who grew up amid the glitter of Hollywood and observed the trappings … [Read more...] about Adela Rogers St. John: A Front Row Seat

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