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Let’s begin in the logical place, at the very end of the day. Tonight was a gala night in Pordenone, a celebration of some of my favourite women. For sure we had Pola Negri and Gloria Swanson on th…

This was always going to be Gloria Swanson’s day with a stunning presentation of one of her landmark and most-influential films but that d...

I have spent a lot of words on Le Giornate del Cinema Muto so maybe I need some new ones. Conveniently enough, day six of the festival proved a fruitful day for neologisms – right from the start.

Vera Kholodnaya was ‘The Queen of Screen’ that most people haven’t seen. She was a sensation in pre-Revolutionary Russia making over 50 fi...

Vera Kholodnaya was ‘The Queen of Screen’ that most people haven’t seen. She was a sensation in pre-Revolutionary Russia making over 50 fi...

Even here at Pordenone, not every film you watch can be a masterpiece. So rest assured that tonight’s gala screening of A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926), with live benshi narration from…

Teinosuke Kinugasa’s A Page of Madness or Kurutta Ippeji stands apart from American and European sensibilities even as it borrows elemen...

Teinosuke Kinugasa’s A Page of Madness or Kurutta Ippeji stands apart from American and European sensibilities even as it borrows elemen...

There’s an incredible story behind the finding of Seven Sinners (1925), which was long considered a lost film until May 2015 when film hu...

“There is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.” So the Bible says, but there was much rejoicing in heaven, or rather …

There’s an incredible story behind the finding of Seven Sinners (1925), which was long considered a lost film until May 2015 when film hu...

Pordenone is basically a very long tram ride, and although the views at every stop are very diverting, I have no intention of disembarking any time soon.

Landscape is image in Seastrom… Robert Herring, Film Image: Seastrom, Close Up (Volume IV, Issue I, January 1929) Director/actor Vict...

If you are anything like me, then you may well consider the two-hour flight to Italy for the Pordenone Silent Film Festival at least partially justified by the chance to see four minutes of a lost …

Pola Negri – Asta from Poland Buffalo Bill… She is a star in our homeland Buffalo Bill…   Warsaw cabaret song circa 1917 Befor...

Doug has never leaped so high… He's perpetual youth, a three-ringed circus, the personification of all juvenile heroes, all rolled into ...

A work of barbaric splendour… LA Times   Culture doesn’t exist in a vacuum and I don’t just mean Ed Sheeran here. There was a blea...

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