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GROSS, PART SIX - a 1918 double bill: pathos and perfect slapstick followed by a mind-expanding account of the Russian revolution
Mabel Normand and Vladimir Lenin, together at last.
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GROSS, PART FIVE - a fairytale, a comedy, a fantasy - and a Disney princess 20 years before Snow White
Mary Pickford was famed for playing childlike parts, flighty young women with spirit. In 1917's The Poor Little Rich Girl, she broke new ground by…
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GROSS, PART FOUR - this review turned into a disquisition on underwater storytelling
This 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea wasn't even the first movie version.
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GROSS, PART THREE - a visionary work of art, a hateful apologia for slavery and Jim Crow… and a really bad film
1915. The Birth of a Nation, originally called 'The Clansmen', was screened for President Woodrow Wilson at the White House.
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GROSS, PART TWO - a cheesy romance, a seaside class-war, a vehicle for the biggest female star of the time
The actual top film of 1914 was an epic 23-part serial called The Million Dollar Mystery, which it turns out is lost, so I watched the…
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Bus drivers, bus conductors and the spirit of Tobruk in Sloane Square
Loyalty, respect and transgression on the number 10s.
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GROSS, PART ONE - an organised crime drama with a dramatic police raid and an ultra-modern remote surveillance storyline
It's called Traffic in Souls and it's an extraordinarily modern movie - a prototype for a whole new category
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Taking a chance
Sticking a poem in here, in your inbox, whether you like it or not.
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