Everybody's favorite movie decade: Which ones are the best movies released in the 20th century's second decade? Best Film (Pictured above) Broken Blossoms: Barthelmess and Gish star as ill-fated lovers in D.W. Griffith’s romantic melodrama featuring interethnic love. Check These Out (Pictured below) Cabiria: is considered one of the major landmarks in motion picture history, having inspired the scope and visual grandeur of D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance. Also of note, Pastrone's epic of ancient Rome introduced Maciste, a bulky hero who would be featured in countless movies in the ensuing decades. Best Actor (Pictured below) In the tragic The Italian, George Beban plays an Italian immigrant recently arrived in the United States (Click below for film review). Unfortunately, his American dream quickly becomes a horrendous nightmare of poverty and despair. Best Actress (Pictured below) The movies' super-vamp Theda Bara in A Fool There Was: A little...
- 3/27/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
As his silent Louis Armstrong movie premieres in London, director Dan Pritzker reveals he has another treat for jazz fans
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Billionaire Dan Pritzker premieres his charming silent jazz movie Louis tonight at the Barbican, with live orchestral accompaniment, as part of the London jazz festival. Complete with a score by Wynton Marsalis (incorporating Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington and Louis Gottschalk), it's a fictional story of the young Louis Armstrong growing up in New Orleans in 1907. It comes just as the French film The Artist is blazing a new trail for silent movies, rapidly becoming a favourite for the forthcoming awards season. "We shot ours two years before them," says Pritzker, an heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune. "I don't know if it was a bigger risk making it silent or making it with jazz as the soundtrack. People thought I was insane – but Wynton Marsalis got the whole idea straight off.
To Bolden go…
Billionaire Dan Pritzker premieres his charming silent jazz movie Louis tonight at the Barbican, with live orchestral accompaniment, as part of the London jazz festival. Complete with a score by Wynton Marsalis (incorporating Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington and Louis Gottschalk), it's a fictional story of the young Louis Armstrong growing up in New Orleans in 1907. It comes just as the French film The Artist is blazing a new trail for silent movies, rapidly becoming a favourite for the forthcoming awards season. "We shot ours two years before them," says Pritzker, an heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune. "I don't know if it was a bigger risk making it silent or making it with jazz as the soundtrack. People thought I was insane – but Wynton Marsalis got the whole idea straight off.
- 11/13/2011
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
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