During the 1910s, action-packed films with their death-defying screen heroes ensured full cinemas and full box offices. This presentation by Vienna based film historian Hemma Marlene Prainsack provides an overview of the history of the so-called Sensationsfilm, the fore-runner of the action genre in German cinema and its most important representatives, above all Harry Piel […]
When films were silent, fashion spoke volumes—Goddesses in the Machine explores the story of costume and style in early Hollywood, from actors wearing their own clothes to the birth of the movie costume designer. Please join Michelle Finamore for an overview of the forthcoming exhibition Goddesses in the Machine: Fashion in American Silent Film opening […]
Every year, the Dutch Silent Film Festival presents recent discoveries and restorations. Carefully restored by film archives and film laboratories from all over the world. But how exactly does this process work and who are the people who bring these films back to life on the big screen? Film restorer Maria Fuentes gives us a […]
As Toni (Corinne Griffith) hopes to break through as an opera star at a singing audition in Budapest, she discovers to her horror that she has been accepted into a vulgar nightclub. She finds solace with the sweet dresser (Louise Dresser) who takes her to Hotel Eden in Monte Carlo. There, Toni's true identity is […]
