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Tremendous. Amazing. Prodigious. After Griffith (Orphans of the Storm, 1921) and Ingram (Scaramouche, 1923), it was time the French cinematographers told their own version of the French Revolution. And, speaking as a Frenchman, I can tell you I am not...

A year after The Prisoner of Zenda, Rex Ingram shoots another film with more or less the same team. This time, it takes place during the French Revolution. So we can se Alice Terry (Mrs Ingram), Lewis Stone and Ramon Novarro. But when you look closely,...

This is certainly one of the most sensual films of all time. Chaplin turned in it a festival of senses. - Smell: no real reference, but something puzzles me when the elephant crosses the screen (and the street). - Taste: this is a film where they eat...

Lon Chaney was "the Man with the thousand faces". Nevertheless, in this film, we have to wait for forty-five minutes before being able to see his made-up face. Before that, he wears a mask. But it was worth waiting. We have rarely seen such a hideous...

John (James Murray) and Mary (Eleanor Boardman - Mrs Vidor) are two, faces in the crowd. They meet, they get married, they have children. A common story. But in the cinema, nothing is common. We are more interested in John. He is a good little boy full...

In New York , Buster (Keaton) is a public photographer. You can get your picture taken for a dime. While he is taking a picture, a big parade takes place: many people gather and amongst them, Sally (Marceline Day) a young woman who works for the News...

When you "go down the Mississippi River several miles then turn right", you find a superb mansion, with all its black servants - including a young child (Ernest Morrison). The girl (Mildred Davis) has inherited. But there's still one small problem: she...

A traffic accident. Young doctor Ferris (Charles Clary) operates on the young boy : both his legs need to be amputated. But it is a misdiagnosis. A youth misdiagnosis which can have fatal consequences... Twenty-seven years later, in San Francisco , maybe...

Unforgettable. The magnificent Murnau. In my opinion, his most impressive film. There is a threat flying upon us all through the movie. And the special effects increase this threat: the coffin closes itself and moves without any help, door which opens...

Warsaw , august 1939. The theatre company led by the GREAT Jozef Tura (Jack Benny) is rehearsing a new play: Gestapo, a mockery of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. And in the evening, they perform Hamlet, where the same Tura tries to be the young Danish prince....