One hundred years ago: 1921
In 'The Time Machine' section of Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival one of the yearly programs is 'One Hundred Years Ago', curated this year by Karl Wratschko and Mariann Lewinsky. They write at the festival site: "1921 turned out to be a surprising vintage, a meeting point of ‘not yet’ and ‘already’. Top directors Ernst Lubitsch (Die Bergkatze) and Victor Sjöström (Körkarlen) are still working in Europe; soon they will have left for Hollywood. Weimar Cinema (discovery: Die Ratten by Hanns Kobe) and avant-garde movements (Ruttmann and Richter) already make their mark, but Soviet production has not yet picked up. This probably explains why Gosfilmofond is able to offer us unique prints of imported films from its collection, works not seen in decades, such as Sessue Hayakawa’s The Swamp and ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle’s mythical Crazy to Marry, his last release before scandal and Will Hays abruptly transformed the popular idol into a non-person. Stars such as Alla Nazimova (Camille) and Henny Porten (Hintertreppe) not only continued their acting careers in 1921, they were also their own independent producers. When it comes to comedy, 1921 was an especially wonderful year, with extraordinary performers (Arbuckle, Biscot, Chaplin, Hardy, Keaton, Laurel, and Larry Semon) intent on making us laugh, all of us together – once again." For this post, Ivo Blom selected 21 postcards of films that premiered in 1921. READ AND SEE MUCH MORE AT https://filmstarpostcards.blogspot.com/2021/07/one-hundred-years-ago-1921.html
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