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An introduction to silent Hitchcock: Blackmail
Anny Ondra in Blackmail (1929) Blackmail, perhaps the greatest British silent film, was the work of a young director firing on all cylinders. As well as this masterful silent movie, Hitchcock made an...
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The Manxman: London film festival review
The Manxman (1929) A folk romance that stumbles into melodrama, an adaptation of a blockbusting novel that is now all-but forgotten, The Manxman may seem to be far more of its time than ours. But the...
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Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2013: Pordenone post No 1
Giornate del Cinema Muto 2013 Hello. Has it really been a whole year since this? Hold on to your bonnets, because we are back in Pordenone and it’s Saturday night. It’s time. To face. The silents....
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Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2013: Pordenone post No 2
Chytÿte ho! (Lupicÿ nesÿika) They say the world is divided between night owls and early-rising larks. Here at the Giornate, we split in two similar camps: are you up and at ‘em first thing for Felix...
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Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2013: Pordenone post No 3
Die Unehelichen (Gerhard Lamprecht, 1926) An outstanding day at the Giornate: a varied programme of astonishing films, and excellent musical accompaniment. So while it was drizzly and grey outside,...
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Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2013: Pordenone post No 7
Earth (1930) Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre, Kiev Lucky number seven. Today was a red-letter-day in Pordenone for many reasons. I rewatched one of my all-time favourite films, Anny Ondra finally...
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An introduction to silent Hitchcock: The Manxman
The Manxman (1929) Often referred to as Hitchcock’s final silent, because Blackmail was also shot as a sound film, The Manxman seems to be growing steadily in popularity, and with good reason. It’s a...
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Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2013: Pordenone post No 6
Another disappointing Anny Ondra performance – but in an unforgettable movie – two Mothers, a part-talkie that wants to be a silent, a Lamprecht with a happy ending, and Buster Keaton with a Benshi....
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Hitchcock’s coming home … Blackmail at the Walthamstow Assembly Hall
Alfred Hitchcock was born in the far east of London, in Leytonstone. So far east in fact, that it was Essex then, I think. But Hitch is still one of London’s most famous film directors, and it is...
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