Showing posts with label Méliès. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Méliès. Show all posts
January 13, 1970
Le Voyage de la famille Bourrichon (1913) **
A debt-ridden family is escaping from creditors. Georges Méliès' last film.
January 12, 1970
La Pantoufle merveilleuse (1912) ***
A remake of Méliès' own "Cinderella" (1899). More impressive and more innovative (there is even a close-up), but quite long.
Le Chevalier des neiges (1912) ***
Impressive fairy tale with dragons, knights, devils, monks in KKK robes and damsels in distress.
La conquête du pôle (1912) **
A science-fiction short about a trip to the North Pole. Very dated by the 1912 standards. One of Georges Méliès' last films.
January 11, 1970
January 9, 1970
Le Locataire diabolique (1909) *
A lodger uses magic tricks to hang his paintings and move the furniture.
January 8, 1970
Photographie électrique à distance (1908) **
A demonstration of a new gizmo that looks very much like television.
Anaïc (1908) **
Bandits attack a family and an innocent man is falsely accused of that crime. Aka "Le Balafré".
Il y a un dieu pour les ivrognes (1908) **
A drunk throws his wife and daughter out the window, and then tries to hang himself.
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