Tag: cinema
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The Birth of a Nation (1915) Review
7/26/14 The Birth of a Nation (1915) Director: D.W. Griffith (David Wark Griffith) ★★★★☆ I cannot, in good conscience, praise anything about the narrative of The Birth of a Nation. The central theme is of a virtuous Southern civilization that is under the impending threat of a bestial, black uprising until a heroic vigilante group […]
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David Wark Griffith
D.W. Griffith was born and raised in La Grange, Kentucky as the as the youngest child of seven, and his father served as a colonel in the Confederate army. After his failure to sell a script to Edwin S. Porter of Edison Studios under the pseudonym of Lawrence Griffith, Porter hired Griffith to star inRescued […]
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George Melies (1861-1938)
Marie-Georges-Jean Melies (1861-1938), or the “cinemagician” was a French magician and performer who tried to purchase a camera from the Lumiere Brothers (August and Louis who invented the Cinematographe which opened film to larger audiences contra Edison’s Kinetoscope) but was denied. He was 34 years old, and one of 33 people to attend the first […]
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Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902) Review
Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902) Director: George Méliès “A Trip to the Moon” ★★★★★ Georges Méliès’s films tend to present fantastical journeys through time and space with technical innovations and aesthetic splendor. While many of his short movies were created to complement his performances as a magician, his later films such as The Impossible […]
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