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La Roue (1922) (Dir. Abel Gance 1922)
Date: 24 May 2009
Location: Watershed
Time: 13:00
£10/£8 concs and Bristol Silents members.
Filmmaker Jean Cocteau said “There is cinema before and after La Roue as there is painting before and after Picasso” Long considered a cinematic masterpiece La Roue has been unavailable for 87 years. An epic of the railways shot among the marshalling yards – the Black Symphony – and the mountains – the White Symphony La Roue is a powerful drama of life among the railroad workers, rich in psychological characterization and symbolic imagery. This four and a half hour version assembled from five existing prints is an opportunity for new audiences to discover it, it should change film history as it is packed with innovations that have been mistakenly attributed to others.
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Location: Watershed
Time: 13:00
£10/£8 concs and Bristol Silents members.
Filmmaker Jean Cocteau said “There is cinema before and after La Roue as there is painting before and after Picasso” Long considered a cinematic masterpiece La Roue has been unavailable for 87 years. An epic of the railways shot among the marshalling yards – the Black Symphony – and the mountains – the White Symphony La Roue is a powerful drama of life among the railroad workers, rich in psychological characterization and symbolic imagery. This four and a half hour version assembled from five existing prints is an opportunity for new audiences to discover it, it should change film history as it is packed with innovations that have been mistakenly attributed to others.
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