I can’t wait to see that dance footage, especially the ballet mecanique, which as I recall does not feature dancers per se but dancing gears and machines. Ballet mécanique (1923-24), Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy’s abstract collage of machines, objects and shapes set to a radical George Antheils score reconstructed by Paul Lehrman.įriend of arts Fragments of Truth, produced by Faithlife Films and scheduled for a one-night theater release on April 24, features more than a dozen scholars and experts who set the record straight concerning the reliability of the New Testament texts.Carousel – Animal Opera (c.1938), a visual symphony by artist and sculptor Joseph Cornell.dream sequence from Beggar on Horseback (1925), featuring popular character actor Edward Everett Horton Here are 50 movies the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer absolutely loathed (including a couple of surprises that you might very well love), along with his dry assessments of their value (or lack.Annabell Dances and Dances (1894-97), a pioneering attempt to capture dance on film.pagan dance sequence from Peer Gynt (1941), starring a 17-year-old Charlton Heston.Now, pay attention, because there’s dance in this one: Then follows a special 10th anniversary presentation of “Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant Garde Film 1894-1941,” a 2 ½-hour collection of 16 experimental, mind-bending works from the early days of cinema. the only color footage of silent star Clara Bow, Red Hair (1928).an early lost sound film, Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), filmed in early Technicolor®.
The Miracle Man (1919), with Lon Chaney Iraq in Fragments is a documentary film directed by James Longley.Longley shot the film in Digital Video on a Panasonic DVX100 miniDV camcorder.The film premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival where it won three awards: 'Directing Award Documentary', 'Editing Award Documentary' and 'Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary'.Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh (1927), the only Oscar®-winning performance in a lost film.
John Ford’s The Village Blacksmith (1922) – final reel.Produced by Flicker Alley, the program features nine thematically arranged segments and case studies of clips preserved by leading film archives. Two “clips” programs of rarely seen early cinema will be viewable on television, er… on your computer monitor, your telephone, or your wristwatch, whatever!įirst up, “Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films,” with segments from films that have otherwise been lost to history, as well as interviews with people involved in making and preserving these films. It’s a long evening starting at 5 pm LA time, 8 pm in NYC, so stock up on wine and cheese. meme friend Jeff Masino alerts us that next Sunday evening, April 3, Turner Classic Movies (TCM), cable’s outstanding classic film channel has an unusually interesting broadcast line-up.
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