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Nasty Women of Silent Cinema: Pordenone Giornate catalog notes
Maggie Hennefeld
2017
Long before there were “pussy hats” and late-night feminist satirists, comedienne characters such as Léontine, Rosalie, Cunégonde, Lea, Bridget, and Tilly spoke truth to patriarchal power with their gleefully reckless and wholesale destructive disregard for gendered social norms and feminine corporeal decorum. This series on “Nasty Women” includes four curated programs of short films – “Catastrophe in the Kitchen,” “Léontine/Betty,” “Identity Crisis,” and “Catastrophe Beyond the Kitchen” – as well as one feature film, The Deadlier Sex, about a female railroad tycoon who abducts a rival businessman and strands him in the wilderness with only his wallet. More than just deadly vamps, the “nasty women” in our programs deflect and defile rigid gender norms by any means possible: they blow up the kitchen, shatter all the dinnerware, dismember their limbs to revolutionize their labor, torment their employers with sadistic pranks, playfully transgress sexual and racial taboos, swap bodies and metamorphose into other species, and flaunt their corporeality with predatory abandon.
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Tableaux Vivants. A Programme of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival | Tableaux vivants (o "Quadri viventi"). Un programma delle Giornate del cinema muto
Valentine Robert
Pordenone Silent Film Festival Catalogue | Catalogo delle Giornate del Cinema Muto, 2017
Introduction and detailed list (about 40 films) of the retrospective that Valentine Robert curated at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival 2017. The programme was shaped by the direct comparison, on the screen, between (most of the time forgotten) paintings and early films suddenly disclosed as their living reenactments. --- Introduzione ed elenco dettagliato (circa 40 filmati) della rettrospettiva curata da Valentine Robert alle Giornate del cinema muto 2017. Questo programma basato sul confronto diretto, sullo schermo, tra pitture (il più delle volte dimenticate) e filmati delle origini, di colpo divulgati come loro viventi rievocazioni. [bilingual | bilingue]
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Le Giornate del Cinema Muto: Mistinguett
victoria duckett
Mistinguett, 2019
This catalogue contains entries concerning the French performer Mistinguett, the most famous international music hall actress of the early twentieth century. With Richard Abel, I researched and wrote the program notes to the films that include: La Glu (1913, Capellani) &Chignon d'or (1916, Hugon),
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Fox Story #4702: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Family
Greg Wilsbacher
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Greg Wilsbacher
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Giornate del Cinema Muto 2023 HARRY PIEL
Hemma Marlene Prainsack
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„You’ll notice we have a great deal of escapist adventure films and comedies this year: great timing! One of the most ample series is dedicated to Harry Piel, the German producer- director-actor whose star was on such a global scale that a 1922 poll in Brazil’s Jornal do Recife ranked him Number 10 in the list of “most sympathetic” performers (ahead of Norma Talmadge!), and Number 8 in the list of “greatest artists.” Piel was the German Douglas Fairbanks, an artist who made daredevilry seem like child’s play, with an ebullient personality whose charm matched his bravura. Yet because he never worked within the pantheon of recognized auteurs, and made films that were wildly popular with the public, he’s been relegated to the margins of film history; thanks to Andreas Thein, head of collections at the Filmmuseum Düsseldorf, together with the scholar Hemma Marlene Prainsack, Piel can finally resume his spot as a box-office king.“ Jay Weissberg, Direttore Giornate del Cinema Muto Catalogo GCM2023
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Emilio Ghione, l’ultimo apache / Emilio Ghione, the last apache [2008]
Denis Lotti
"Il Cinema Ritrovato 2008", Catalogo, a cura di Roberto Chiesi e Guy Borlée,, 2008
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The Slanted Mirror: Silent Cinema Looks at Itself, (Pordenone Film Festival, GCM2019 catalogue)
Dimitrios Latsis
Pordenone Film Festival, GCM catalogue, 2019
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El Bolillo Fatal... o el Emblema de la Muerte (ITA/ENG)
Carolina Cappa
La Giornate del Cinema Muto Catalogue, 2015
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CINEMA'S FIRST NASTY WOMEN (114-page edited booklet)
Maggie Hennefeld, Enrique Moreno Ceballos, DANA REASON, Charlene Regester
Kino Lorber, 2022
Cinema’s First Nasty Women is a 4-disc DVD/Blu-ray set featuring rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, anarchic slapstick destruction, and suggestive gender play. The collection includes 99 European and American silent films, produced from 1898 to 1926, sourced from 13 international film archives and libraries, and spotlighting slapstick comediennes and cross-dressing women of the silent screen. This 114-page edited booklet includes essays, interviews, photos, and detailed film notes.
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