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Max Schreck has a biography and some photos available online. He died in '36, presumably not with a stake through his heart... Speaking of vampire films from the twenties: it seems that the most "legendary" one is a film by Tod Browning from '27, "London after midnight." "Legendary" because it has not survived to this day. In the mid-sixties, the only existing copy was destroyed in a fire that broke out in the MGM warehouse where it was kept... Experts and cinephiles still roam the film archives around the world hoping to find at least a fragment. To appease the curiosity of enthusiasts, some jokers created a "Film" using a few photos taken on set and the captions taken directly from the screenplay. The camera, moving from one detail of the photos to another, gives a minimum of rhythm and "action" to the film. Anyway, more than a film, it seems more like a photo novel. It’s hard to understand much, but from what can be understood, it must have been very beautiful. There’s an anthology-worthy Lon Chaney in the dual role of vampire and vampire slayer, and my favorite silent film actress: Marceline Day, who, however, is seen much better in Keaton's "The cameraman" (and what a drag, always him...). Tod Browning, perhaps foreseeing the fate of "London after midnight," remade the film in '35 under the title "The mark of the vampire." Obviously, Lon Chaney is not there, replaced by Bela Lugosi, nor is Day... In short, it’s not the same thing...

Non hai fornito un testo da tradurre. Per favore, inviami il testo in italiano e sarò felice di aiutarti con la traduzione.

I prefer "The Meaning of Life" and "Brian of Nazareth," but this one isn't bad either...

Always interested in the avant-garde made for laughter...

Another review of Citizen Kane that doesn’t mention W.R. Hearst, the alter ego of C.F. Kane, not even by mistake... Was it booed at the Oscars? I don’t know, I thought it won one, who remembers which one... The film didn’t succeed at the time of its release due to the boycott by Hearst's newspapers...

Interesting... The only Ashby film I've seen is "Being There," which seemed to me anything but a masterpiece, despite Peter Sellers... Anyway, I'll look for this one.

Damn, Baccini... Back in the days of "Cartoons" (on the cover there's Betty Boop portrayed by Vincenzo Mollica imitating a painting by Tamara De Lempicka) and "il pianoforte..." it wasn't even bad... From there it just got worse and finally he went crazy. What a shame...

And of "Days of Heaven." Furthermore, in my opinion, it's Malick's most beautiful...

Hi Muffin, if you want you can watch "safety last" divided into 7 convenient clips on YouTube. I’ve put the link at the bottom of the review.