Sex, Sensations & Superstars: The History of Danish Silent Cinema

Oct 14, 2020

0h 59m

★ 0.0

Overview

Documentary on the rise and fall of the Danish silent film industry.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Historieselskabet

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Cast

Self – Host

Liv Thomsen

Self – Interviewee

Lars-Martin Sørensen

Self – Interviewee

Anne Schwartz

Self (archive footage)

Ole Olsen

Self – Interviewee (archive footage)

Elith Pio

Self – Interviewee

Lotte Thrane

Self – Interviewee (archive footage)

Clara Pontoppidan

Self – Interviewee (archive footage)

Asta Nielsen

Self (archive footage)

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Armed with skulls, black makeup, wild outfits and high mohawks, this gothic trinity fights to gain control of and thus free themselves from their loneliness and inner demons as well as pressure from authorities, which they feel disturbed and controlled by. But one day, Josephine meets the beautiful guy, Jan, on Instagram and falls head over heels in love with him and the precious trio friendship is put to the test.

7.8

Coup 53

Sep 1, 2019

Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed tyrant Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, have conspired with agents of the British MI6 and the US CIA, manage to put an end to the democratic government led by Mohammad Mosaddegh, a dramatic event that will begin the tragic era of coups d'état that, orchestrated by the CIA, will take place, over the following decades, in dozens of countries around the world.

6.6

La Cicciolina: Godmother of Scandal

May 10, 2017

The personal and professional story of Ilona Staller, known as Cicciolina, is probably unique: she left communist Hungary and moved to Italy, where she found a fertile environment for a life dedicated to scandal.

6.0

Heirs of the Beast

Oct 10, 2016

The story of the making and subsequent success of The Day of the Beast, the Spanish cult film directed by Álex de la Iglesia and released in 1995.

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6.3

Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte

Jul 3, 2008

This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear.

6.0

The Green Fog

Jan 5, 2018

A tribute to a fascinating film shot by Alfred Hitchcock in 1958, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, and to the city of San Francisco, California, where the magic was created; but also a challenge: how to pay homage to a masterpiece without using its footage; how to do it simply by gathering images from various sources, all of them haunted by the curse of a mysterious green fog that seems to cause irrepressible vertigo…

6.5

Fellinopolis

Jun 10, 2021

Ferruccio Castronuovo was the only authorized eye, between 1976 and 1986, to film the brilliant Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini (1920-1993) in his personal and creative intimacy, to capture the gears of his great circus, his fantastic lies and his crazy inventions.

6.5

Robert Redford: The Golden Look

Jul 28, 2019

More than anyone in the cynical film industry, legendary artist Robert Redford embodies the United States' brightest side: perseverance, independence, idealism, and integrity. A champion of active environmentalism and the right to openly criticize any institutional abuse, he has put his artistic work at the service of his political commitments, whether as an actor, director, producer, or founder of the Sundance Festival, a formidable forum for his struggles since 1985.

6.1

The Case of Bruno Lüdke

Feb 17, 2021

The incredible story of Bruno Lüdke (1908-44), the alleged worst mass murderer in German criminal history; or actually, a story of forged files and fake news that takes place during the darkest years of the Third Reich, when the principles of criminal justice, subjected to the yoke of a totalitarian system that is beginning to collapse, mean absolutely nothing.

7.2

Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion

Aug 7, 2022

Austrian actress Romy Schneider (1938) and French actor Alain Delon (1935), once fervent lovers in the early sixties, maintained a close friendship and a certain working relationship after their breakup until her death in 1984: a universal and eternal love.

6.4

The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite

Nov 10, 2023

A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker and film critic Fernando Méndez-Leite, as he writes his memoirs and a novel with autobiographical resonances.

6.0

Clawing! A Journey Through the Spanish Horror

Jun 20, 2014

In the late sixties, Spanish cinema began to produce a huge amount of horror genre films: international markets were opened, the production was continuous, a small star-system was created, as well as a solid group of specialized directors. Although foreign trends were imitated, Spanish horror offered a particular approach to sex, blood and violence. It was an extremely unusual artistic movement in Franco's Spain.

7.4

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Sep 9, 2021

An exploration of the cinematic history of the folk horror, from its beginnings in the UK in the late sixties; through its proliferation on British television in the seventies and its many manifestations, culturally specific, in other countries; to its resurgence in the last decade.

7.1

The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat

Jun 30, 1896

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the café in terror, fearing being run over by the "approaching" train. This legend has since been identified as promotional embellishment, though there is evidence to suggest that people were astounded at the capabilities of the Lumières' cinématographe.

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Senses of Cinema

Nov 17, 2022

As notions of civil rights transformed across the world, so was the screen landscape reformed by the ascension of grassroots film movements seeking to challenge the mainstream. Some aspired to push form to its limit; others worked to destabilise what they saw as a homogenous industry, or to provoke questions around gender, sexuality, migration and race.

6.4

Hitler's Hollywood

Feb 23, 2017

Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich collapsed. (A sequel to From Caligari to Hitler, 2015.)

6.9

Aznavour by Charles

Oct 2, 2019

In 1948, French singer Charles Aznavour (1924-2018) receives a Paillard Bolex, his first camera. Until 1982, he will shoot hours of footage, his filmed diary. Wherever he goes, he carries his camera with him. He films his life and lives as he films: places, moments, friends, loves, misfortunes.

3.0

Locations: Looking for Rusty James

Aug 30, 2013

A personal meditation on Rumble Fish, the legendary film directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1983; the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, where it was shot; and its impact on the life of several people from Chile, Argentina and Uruguay related to film industry.

6.6

Straight to VHS

Mar 25, 2021

Act of Violence Upon a Young Journalist is a film shot in 1988 and released on VHS in 1989; a mysterious cult work of Uruguayan cinema surrounded by strange theories about Manuel Lamas, its unknown creator. Until now.

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Omnibus: François Truffaut

Dec 2, 1973

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Cast

Self – Host

Liv Thomsen

Self – Interviewee

Lars-Martin Sørensen

Self – Interviewee

Anne Schwartz

Self (archive footage)

Ole Olsen

Self – Interviewee (archive footage)

Elith Pio

Self – Interviewee

Lotte Thrane

Self – Interviewee (archive footage)

Clara Pontoppidan

Self – Interviewee (archive footage)

Asta Nielsen

Self (archive footage)

Sex, Sensations & Superstars: The History of Danish Silent Cinema

Overview

Genres

Production Companies

Sex, Sensations & Superstars: The History of Danish Silent Cinema Trailers

Cast

Liv Thomsen

Lars-Martin Sørensen

Anne Schwartz

Ole Olsen

Elith Pio

Lotte Thrane

Clara Pontoppidan

Asta Nielsen

Carl Theodor Dreyer

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Cast

Liv Thomsen

Lars-Martin Sørensen

Anne Schwartz

Ole Olsen

Elith Pio

Lotte Thrane

Clara Pontoppidan

Asta Nielsen

Carl Theodor Dreyer