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The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon 1895
And we're back to start off the week with Week 8 of The IMDb Project, whereby yours truly has tasked himself with taking on every film in the Internet Movie Database beginning at title #0000001.
IMDb title #0000013: 'Neuville-sur-Saône: Débarquement du congrès des photographie à Lyon' (1895, Louis Lumière)
A very brief film made by one of the brothers Lumière, 'The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon' is a simple document of several of Louis Lumière's peers in the photographic profession…
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The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat 1896
Week 7 of The IMDb Project, whereby this writer has tasked himself with the impossible: taking on every film in the Internet Movie Database beginning at title #0000001.
IMDb title #0000012: 'L'arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat' (1896, Auguste & Louis Lumière)
Perhaps the most iconic film of the great many films that the Lumière brothers made, 'The Arrival of a Train' is surrounded in legend. Namely, that on its initial exhibition, audiences became so overwhelmed with the sight of the…
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Smiles of a Summer Night 1955
I must admit that I didn't particularly care for this film too much when I first watched it years back. Back when all I wanted from my Bergman was Seventh Seal/Winter Light-type gloominess and depression. So it is safe to say I was initially thrown off by the comedy (and Gunnar Björnstrand actually smiling).
Now, I've come to revisit it as the first film in Criterion's 'Ingmar Bergman's Cinema', a compendium of the vast majority of the director's work structured…
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Vanya on 42nd Street 1994
I love the interview with Wallace Shawn when he says something like (I'm paraphrasing), "I was approached by Andre to play Vanya in the stage performance of Vanya. I didn't want to be a stage actor. And Vanya wasn't the kind of story that was appealing to me. And the character of Vanya was repulsive to me. Then Andre Gregory said, oh no, we won't be performing it, all we are doing is rehearsing the script over and over again and simply exploring the script together. Then I was like, fuck yeah, give it to me Greggy boy."
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