从1908年至1927年,是世界无声电影发展并进入全盛的时期,并涌现了一批世界电影名作和着名的电影艺术家。
在欧洲,艺术和商业发展进程较美国更快。在电影历史的最初十年中,最优秀的影片来自法国和英国。
在英国象罗伯特·威廉·席台和伯尔特·阿克利斯这样的发明家仿造并改进了爱迪生的机器。一批具有创新精神的艺术家则使用这批机器来拍摄二十世纪最初十年最富有想象力的影片。往往被人称做布赖顿学派的这些英国电影制作者,如G·阿尔伯特·史密斯、詹姆士·威廉逊、埃斯美·柯林斯、希赛尔·海普华斯和察尔斯·欧本,他们影片的特点是对活动的摄影机、特写以及剪辑的节奏进行实验。希赛尔·海普华斯的《义犬救主记》(一九0五年),这部情节剧是关于一个婴儿被吉普赛人拐走,然后被一只忠实的牧羊犬救了回来的故事。这部影片大概是电影历史头十五年中剪辑得最为流畅而连贯的影片。英国人还开始发展了作...
In impeccable evening dress, Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet ponder the Bonds we've seen on screen since
Film noir has rules: they’re rules about plot and character; about femmes fatales and doomed guys in fedora hats; about stark lighting that slices up the image into shards of black and white. The genre was a child of war, a cinema of darkness and suspicion suited a Hollywood working under the blackout conditions and power-rationing imposed after Pearl Harbor. Stranger on the Th...
A newly-shot one-hour interview ‘Peter Davison In Conversation with Matthew Sweet
Sylvester McCoy is interviewed by Matthew Sweet about his life and career
Long treated with indifference by critics and historians, British silent cinema has only recently undergone the reevaluation it has long deserved, revealing it to be far richer than previously acknowledged. This documentary, featuring clips from a remarkable range of films, celebrates the early years of British filmmaking and spans from such pioneers as George Albert Smith and Cecil Hepworth to such later figures as Anthony Asquith, Maurice Elvey and, of course, Alfred Hitchcock.