- Le Giornate del Cinema Muto
Infobox Film Festival
name = Le Giornate del Cinema Muto
caption = Festival logo
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location =Pordenone ,Italy
language = International
website = http://www.cinetecadelfriuli.org/gcm/Le Giornate del Cinema Muto (in English referred to as Pordenone Silent Film Festival) is a festival of
silent film inPordenone ,Italy , the world's largest such festival.Richie Meyer, "Reel News" (Seattle International Film Festival), Autumn 2007, p.8]The festival was founded in 1981 by students hoping to bolster the moral of earthquake victims in Northern Italy. Their itinerant show of old silent films eventually found a stable home in Pordenone.
The 2006 festival, the
silver anniversary , featured nine days of silent films all with live musical accompaniment. Each year the festival features a national archive that has restored lost or disintegrating films; in 2006 theDanish Film Institute presented 28 works of theNordisk Film Company , dating 1903–1926,Carl Dreyer 's "Leaves from Satan's Book ".Works shown
The following is a list of some works that have been shown at the festival, as well as themes engaged and directors featured, in addition to showing the complete works of
D.W. Griffith , which are being shown in 12 parts, 1997–2008.*1999: Nordic cinema of the 1920s,
Georges Méliès ,Alfred Hitchcock ,Erich von Stroheim
*2000:Louis Feuillade , German "avant garde",Walter Lantz , "The world of 1900"
*2001:Abel Gance 's "Napoléon" reconstructed byKevin Brownlow ; "Finis Terrae " byJean Epstein ; Japanese silent film
*2002: "Funny Ladies", Italian "avant garde", Swiss silent film,Jenő Janovics
*2003:Merian C. Cooper andErnest B. Schoedsack ,Ivan Mozzuhin , Thai silent film, Celebrating a century of flight
*2004:Dziga Vertov , British film of the 1920s, "The General" byBuster Keaton
*2005: Japanese silent film,André Antoine , "Au Bonheur des dames" byJulien Duvivier , "Flesh and the Devil " byClarence Brown , "The Scarlet Letter)" byVictor Sjöström
*2006: "Silly Symphonies " byWalt Disney , films of theNordisk Film Company , "Cabiria " byGiovanni Pastrone ,Thomas H. Ince , "Cinema and magic"
*2007: German silent film,René Clair ,Ladislas Starewitch , "Chicago" byFrank Urson , "À propos de Nice " byJean Vigo , "Pandora's Box" byGeorg Wilhelm Pabst Notes
External links
* [http://www.cinetecadelfriuli.org/gcm/ Le Giornate del Cinema Muto] , official site.
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