Set in a tenement boarding house, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks. Believing the bachelor perpetrated one particular prank, the spinster woman enters his room to confront him. She is followed by a neighbor child. Meanwhile, the other children have stolen a scarlet fever quarantine sign and posted it on the bachelor’s door. The police, unaware that the quarentine sign is a prank, enforce the confinement. But aided by the sweet disposition of the toddler quarantined with them, the icy relations between spinster and bachelor begin to thaw…Read More »
Kate Bruce
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D.W. Griffith – The Sunbeam (1912)
1911-1920D.W. GriffithDramaSilentThe Birth of CinemaUSA -
D.W. Griffith – The Mothering Heart (1913)
USA1911-1920D.W. GriffithDramaSilentThe Birth of CinemaA young couple struggle to get ahead, the wife always assuaging the troubles of her melancholy husband. As he climbs the ladder of success, he abandons the homely values and takes up with another woman. His wife leaves him, returning to her mother’s home where she bears a child. When the husband is abandoned by his concubine, remorse drives him to find his wife…Read More »
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D.W. Griffith – The New York Hat (1912)
1911-1920D.W. GriffithDramaSilentUSAThe young village minister was not quite as discreet as he might have been in fulfilling the strange trust left by the dying mother, but it certainly worked for the common good. By the bequest the mother desired that her daughter possess some of the finery previously denied her. As a result the minister and Mary were linked in a scandal, with the church board in judgment. Gossip received the laugh, however, as it generally does, while the minister assumed a trust quite unexpected.Read More »
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Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub – Proposta in quattro parti (1985)
Arthouse1981-1990ClassicsDanièle HuilletItalyJean-Marie StraubMore material from Straub and Huillet. RAI TV capture.
Proposta 1: Accaparramento di granoRead More »