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[1914]
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CABIRIA ««««˝ Italy Reportedly during the Punic wars (basically just think around 300 BC), a young princess is abducted when Mt. Etna erupts and eventually rescued and then reabducted and so on. Cinema first great epic, lavishly mounted, gloriously entertaining and even blessed with a visual flair - the camera even moves from time to time. In terms of overacting and intertitles that summarise the action that follows, it's primitive certainly, but also technically inventive for the period, and clearly a major influence on Griffith, and probably DeMille. dir: Giovanni Pastrone ph: Augusto Battagliotti, Eugenio Bava, Natale Chiusano, Carlo Franzeri, Giovanni Tomatis, Segundo de Chomón cast: Umberto Mozzato, Bartolomeo Pagano, Italia Almirante-Manzini, Dante Testa, Lidia Quaranta |
A FLORIDA ENCHANTMENT «««« USA A New York heiress takes seeds that transform her into a man. Probably the first queer feature, impressive in that for the great part, it avoids cheap jokes and grants the central character dignity both as a man and as a woman. The gender-bending genre was obviously yet to establish a formula, so the script has to do its own thinking, and quite a bit of good comes out of it - with the minimum of intertitles. The ending is a cop-out, naturally, but when you think about it, what went on beforehand was really quite clever, witty and progressive. dir: Sidney Drew cast: Edith Storey, Sidney Drew, Ethel Lloyd, Lillian Burns, Charles Kent, Jane Morrow, Ada Gifford |
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CAUGHT IN A CABARET (1914) ** KID AUTO RACES AT VENICE (1914) *** |
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