Pordenone Silent Film Festival 2020
I film in streaming delle Giornate del Cinema Muto di Pordenone - 39.ma edizione limitata sulla piattaforma MyMovies.it / 39 limited edition on mymovies.it
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- DirectorHenry MonnierAn animated short about two men in their flying house. The experience a number of adventures on their flight.
- Old film of New York City in the year 1911. This film was taken by the Swedish company Svenska Biografteatern on a trip to the United States. It was released two years later.
- A collection of street scenes from Krakow in 1929.
- A family visits Cairo. On camel they go to see, among other things, the Sphinx.
- A man traverses the Besseggen mountain ridge in Norway on a motorcycle. Produced by a tobacco company it features a lot of smoking but also beautiful vistas.
- DirectorAntonín PechDocumentary about a group of men sailing on a rowing-boat on Vltava River.
- DirectorJulius Jaenzon
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsBen AlexanderJoe ButterworthBuddy MessingerPenrod and his gang don't want to let neighborhood "goodie-goodie" Georgie Bassett into their club, but Penrod's father pressures him to allow the boy in because his parents are wealthy and prominent members of the town. Finally the boys agree to let Georgie join, but first they demand that he undergo an "initiation", and they're determined to make it one that Georgie won't soon forget.
- Eye Filmmuseum and the British Film Institute present a compilation film of newly-restored rare images from the first years of filmmaking. Immerse yourself in enchanting images of Venice, Berlin, Amsterdam and London from 120 years ago. Let yourself be carried away in the mesmerizing events and celebrities of the time, and feel the enthusiasm of early cinema that overcame the challenge of capturing life-like movement.
- DirectorMing-Yau LoShilin ZhuStarsLingyu RuanCho-cho LamLi-li Li
- StarsBaby Marie GereghtyColin CampbellTrouble Lady the DogTom is asked to look after Baby Toodles while his wife and her friends go shopping. But a dog runs off with the baby -- or so Tom believes.
- DirectorColin CampbellStarsSessue HayakawaTôgô YamamotoGoro KinoThe Chinese prince T'Su Wong Shih loves Quan Yin, the daughter of a gardener, but his uncle wants him to marry a girl of his own class. Leaving to study in the United States, the young man promises his beloved that they two will be together soon. Having finished university, one day T'Su Wong Shih visits the market of San Francisco, and at an auction of slaves, he finds Quan Yin auctioned. To save her, he agrees to pay a price of five thousand dollars but, not possessing the full amount, he makes a deal with the auctioneer for a three-year extension in which he must work to raise the money needed to rescue the girl. T'Su Wong Shih has no great success until he manages to win a large sum in a lottery. However, Quan Yin is now in danger because a Chinese gangster wants to have it and, to do that, goes to threaten the auctioneer who is forced to comply. T'Su Wong Shih is then engaged in a struggle to liberate his beloved: he defeats the gangster, rescues Quan Yin and claims her as his wife.
- DirectorCarlo CampogallianiStarsBenfenatiCarlo CampogallianiCuneoA timorous scion of a wealthy family is gaslit by his friends in order to prove that his fears of hereditary insanity are hogwash.
- DirectorDimitris GaziadisStarsPetros EpitropakisMery Sagianou-KatseliStella HristoforidouKostas saves two naive people from a brutal beating. A pretty seamstress, Titika, who happens to come by, attends to his minor wounds, and they fall in love.
- DirectorGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsGustav DiesslBrigitte HelmHertha von WaltherNeglected by her husband, an ambitious lawyer, Irene seeks variety in Berlin's nightlife, drugs and flirtations included.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsMary PickfordElliott DexterTully MarshallA young girl travels west to live with her uncle during the California Gold Rush only to find that he has been killed by Indians and his identity assumed by an outlaw.
- DirectorHolger-MadsenStarsSvend AggerholmIngeborg Bruhn BertelsenOluf BillesborgCount Croisset proposes to the dancer Odette Blant, on condition she leaves the theater. Odette accepts, assuring herself that she will not miss dancing when she has become a countess. But one day, she receives an offer she can't refuse.
- DirectorWill LouisStarsOliver HardyBilly RugeBilly BletcherPlump and Runt are street musicians who are rivals for Florence's affection.
- DirectorLarry SemonNorman TaurogStarsLarry SemonNorma NicholsOliver HardyLarry Semons is sent to collect unpaid rent in a rough neighborhood where "Babe" Hardy as the local boss won't give up easily.
- DirectorScott PembrokeJoe RockStarsStan LaurelJulie LeonardAgnes AyresStan Laurel is a man who is robbed of his civilian clothing by an escaped prisoner, who then dresses Stan in the striped uniform. Naturally, since it's Stan, a guard nabs him and locks him in the pokey.
- DirectorStan LaurelF. Richard JonesStarsClyde CookNoah YoungJames FinlaysonAn eccentric doctor captures two burglars who enter his house. He promises them freedom and a reward of $1,000 if they will go to the cemetery and obtain for him the body of a man whom the doctor contends died of water on the brain. They agree. A suitor for the hand of the doctor's daughter, who has been forbidden to enter the house, passes himself off as a corpse and is carried to the doctor. The suitor escapes and, in order to obtain the reward, Cook is forced to act as the "body." An attempt to carve him up leads to the greatest activity on the part of the "body" to escape the knives and saws of the doctor.
- DirectorFrank FouceStarsStan LaurelMae LaurelCatherine BennettThough only the second half survives, here's a synopsis of what's left: Stan is a Robin Hood-type character in a medieval walled town. He's chased by an army of knights, but both he and his pursuers ride music-hall half-horse costumes in lieu of real steads. He proceeds to fight, Fairbanks-like, dozens of swordsmen at once, and defeats his rival one-on-one, leaving him to marry the princess in a state ceremony.