WHEN WORDS DON’T MATTER
A selection from the 42nd edition of the Giornate del Cinema Muto is online: from 7 to 14 October immerse yourself in the music and images of the world’s leading silent film festival
EINE FRAU VON FORMAT (Madame l’Ambassadeur) (L’ambasciatrice dell’amore)
[A Lady of Quality; A Woman of Distinction] (DE 1928)
Fritz Wendhausen; 97′
[ANKUNFT DES FÜRSTEN WILHELM I. ZU WIED IN DURAZZO (ALBANIEN) MÄRZ 1914]
[Arrivo a Durazzo di Guglielmo di Wied, principe d’Albania, marzo 1914 / Arrival of Prince William I of Wied in Durazzo (Albania) March 1914] (FR 1914); 4’56”
Music: Elaine Loebenstein
DAS ABENTEUER EINES JOURNALISTEN (DE 1914)
Harry Piel; 43′
DAS ROLLENDE HOTEL (DE 1918)
Harry Piel; 55’48”
Music: José María Serralde Ruiz
RIVALEN (Il rivale del circo; The Miracle of Tomorrow) (DE 1923)
Harry Piel; 106′
Music: Gabriel Thibaudeau
SLAPSTICK SHORTS: TRANSATLANTIC ECHOES 59’
Music: Daan Van den Hurk
THE FOX (US 1921)
Robert Thornby; 62′
Music: Philip Carli
EARLY BRITISH FILMS FROM THE FILMOTECA DI CATALUNYA, 1897-1909, 57’51”
Music: John Sweeney
DIE STRAẞE (La Strada; The Street) (DE 1923)
Karl Grune; 79′
Music: Günter Buchwald
LA MADRE (Moeder…) (IT 1917)
Giuseppe Sterni; 57’32”
ITALIA VITALIANI VISITA GIUSEPPE STERNI (ITA 1917); 1’39”
LA VITA E LA MORTE (Zijn Wraak) (IT 1917) (frammento/fragment)
Mario Caserini; 7’35”
Music: Stephen Horne
CONRAD IN QUEST OF HIS YOUTH (US 1920)
William C. de Mille; 76′
Music: Neil Brand
DER BERG DES SCHICKSALS [La montagna del destino / Mountain of Destiny] (DE 1924)
Arnold Fanck; 86′
Music: Mauro Colombis
CIRCE THE ENCHANTRESS (Svůdná kouzelnice) (Circe la maga) (US 1924)
Robert Z. Leonard; 53′
Music: Donald Sosin
9 ½ (films in 9.5mm, 1923-1960s); 50′
Music: Ensemble del Conservatorio G.B. Martini di Bologna