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Posts about feature films.
På Mars 4, 1922, F.W. Murnau utgitt Nosferatu (1922). Nosferatu var Murnau tilpasning av Dracula romanen av Bram Stoker. Murnau unnlatt å kjøpe rettighetene til å filme historien fra Stokers eiendom, som nesten førte til denne filmen som tapt til film seere. Stokers enke hell saksøkt Murnau og det tyske filmselskapet som produserte filmen. Den
Jeg ønsket å skrive om en av mine favorittfilmer, The Scarlet Pimpernel (1935). It is an adaptation of the novel by the same name, skrevet av Baroness Orczy. The film (affiliate link) concerns an English peer, who risks his life by saving French aristocrats from the guillotine. The story is complicated by the fact the peer is married to
The Canary Murder Case (1929) was originally shot as a silent film. However, the Paramount Studio executive thought it would be better as a talking picture. The studio delayed the release until they could add sound to the film. The addition of sound was not without its challenges. Dessverre, one of the main stars of the film, Louise Brooks, hadde
Since the beginning of commercial film making, production companies are always looking for new content. Film companies have always used popular books as a source of content and inspiration. Since the 1950s, popular television shows provided film adaptations and inspiration. In the early days of talking films, popular radio shows led to many film adaptations. Lum and Abner, Jack Benny,
H.G. Wells wrote the story of Things to Come, which was turned into a film in 1936. The film opens during Christmas 1940 in Everytown (obviously London) right before the outbreak of war. The war lasts almost thirty years before “the Airmen” led by John Cabal, a former resident of Everytown, leads the survivors to victory over the remaining war
Stan Laurel og Oliver Hardy stjerne i en av mine favoritt ferie filmer, Babe i Toyland (affiliate link) or March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934). Det er normalt vist rundt Thanksgiving. This film features Stan Laurel as Stannie Dum and Oliver Hardy as Ollie Dee, som prøver å hjelpe Mother Peep, de små gamle kvinner i skoen. Barnaby, the wicked
Scrooge (1935) is Twickenham Studios version of the Charles Dickens’ classic, A Christmas Carol. Seymour Hicks plays Ebenezer Scrooge, the miserly owner of a London business. He employs an assistant named Bob Cratchit. Scrooge will eventually meet three ghosts on Christmas Eve, who will cause a miraculous change in Scrooge’s attitude towards Christmas and his assistant. Seymour Hicks was born
Hva skjer er den første kommersielt vellykkede kunstfilm. The Cabinet of Dr.. Caligari (1920) ble utgitt i januar 1920 bli en tysk og internasjonal sensasjon. Det markerte begynnelsen på den tyske filmgjenopplivingen på 1920-tallet Den tyske ekspresjonistiske bevegelsen i tysk kunst påvirket denne filmen sterkt.. Ekspresjonistiske malere tegnet bygninger med skrånende vinkler, oddly shaped furniture,