I'm sorry Jezebel38. Somehow, I missed that thread, otherwise I would have replied to it immediately! When I saw Gösta Berlings Saga together with my dad at the Stockholm cinematek, he told me he was surprised to find out Lars Hanson had acted in films. I was surprised in turn to find out from him t...

That was common practice here too, and in Denmark. They showed examples of that in Cinema Europe, I remember. Gösta Berling was the most expensive movie made to date at that time, and they had ambitions to make it popular abroad. Anyway, the ending of the book isn't unhappy. It's just not very happy...

In the book there is yet another "love of his life", Anna Stjärnhök, who he rides with to escape the wolves. Stiller thankfully combined her character with Garbo's. Elisabeth Dohna doesn't escape the duke so easily, she gets pregnant with his illegitimate child. The ending of the book isn'...

Annharding, I almost started to compose a love letter. :) Phil noir, Sir Arne's Treasure is indeed a must-see. The Kino release of Sir Arne's Treasure is excellent. It has a good music score and good picture quality for its time. The Kino version of Erotikon is not so good, though. The tinting is ov...

Dear Mr Brownlow, I am a big fan of Kenneth Branagh, I saw him last year at a Bergman festival when he presented his film The Magic Flute, and talked about his life. I could forgive him for not getting the names exactly right! Especially after seeing all the Swedish documentaries where Charlie Chapl...

Thanks!

Hello Mr Kevin Brownlow.Thank you for visiting this site! Ever since I started taking an interest in silent cinema, I have been a big fan of your work. I have watched your documentary Cinema Europe. I thought it was brilliant, but I missed an episode about Russian cinema. I heard you wanted to make ...

It's the perfect excuse.

Okay, I'm done now, I swear...

I know they are two different things, that's why I insist that it was racism and nothing else.

Shall we just agree to disagree about this?

It is innovative, and it is also of great historical value, since it exposes the social attitudes of that time. The loafing and all that was a common stereotype, but what Griffith does is that he passes it off as historical fact. He basically says that this scene is based on a photo, when it is in f...

It's interesting that you brought up Uncle Tom's Cabin. Like Kevin Brownlow said in his thread, it might have been better if Griffith, for the sake of his own legacy, had adapted Uncle Tom's Cabin instead of The Clansman. Although it contains stereotypes which would be deemed racist today , Uncle To...

Ah. I understand. I haven't read the novel, but it is on my list. It is not always easy to adapt that to fit a film of reasonable length. I know that they apparently made an 8-hour adaptation of one of Zola's novels in the early 20s, but that isn't so commercial. The only way to sell that to an audi...

Any film from 1914 is automatically worth watching because of how old it is, to me. I'll admit you can't always expect high quality movie making from that time though.

I didn't know Frank Borzage acted. That would be interesting to see.

The story for the film almost sounds like a fairtytale. That's probably why I'm keen to watch it. I have heard good things about it.

It seems like there are a lot of silents veing rediscovered. I think it's promising.

Another point, Emile Zola was describing in his novel -written in 1883- the creation of the first department store ever: Le Bon Marché created in 1852 in Paris. The film has transposed the story to the 1920s when department stores were already numerous in Paris... I think that it still works as a s...