Writing for Night and Day in 1937, Graham Greene gave the film (Squadrone Bianco)a good review, characterizing it as “odd and refreshing” for a “superficially melodramatic film”. Greene claims that the film is “a very slow picture”, but that in time the audience comes to recognize that “slowness is a value”, and he describes the photography as “unsensational and memorable”. Greene also praises the acting of Fulviá Lanzi.
Rossellini’s “Woman” (“Desiderio”) plus Gassman in “Shamed” (“Preludio d'amore”.) An Italian double bill that circulated widely, if slowly, during the 1950s and early 1960s.
Opened June 1, 1962. Program had been shown at the Avon in March, two months earlier.
Chaplin appeared here in person in 1910 in the stage skit “A Night in an English Music Hall.”
Chaplin appeared here in 1910.
I too have a fascination with the now-lost “Four Devils” by Murnau.
Writing for Night and Day in 1937, Graham Greene gave the film (Squadrone Bianco)a good review, characterizing it as “odd and refreshing” for a “superficially melodramatic film”. Greene claims that the film is “a very slow picture”, but that in time the audience comes to recognize that “slowness is a value”, and he describes the photography as “unsensational and memorable”. Greene also praises the acting of Fulviá Lanzi.
I met director Nanni Loy in Bologna in 1973.
https://rarefilmm.com/2022/06/a-pal-utcai-fiuk-1969/
“Ettore Fieramosca”
I believe this was an Italian film made in the USA.
“La schiava del peccato.” (Slave of Sin).
“Rubacuori” means Heartthrob.
Studio Cinema was part of the Columbus/Uptown Theatre, upstairs.
I attended a matinee showing that week.
A Pietro Germi film (Gobette).
Wonderful!
First Italian sound film released, though not the first one made.
Why reserved seats? Not “The Sound of Music” like in 1965.
Originally “Anna di Brooklyn.”
As the Yale.
As I recall, the film takes place in RI.
Projectionist?
Also referred to as the Watchemoket Town Hall.
A Pietro Germi film.
They closed forever with two great films, one Turkish, the other Italian.
Rossellini’s “Woman” (“Desiderio”) plus Gassman in “Shamed” (“Preludio d'amore”.) An Italian double bill that circulated widely, if slowly, during the 1950s and early 1960s.