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uspiria · 5 months

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The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917) dir. Maurice Tourneur

#the poor little rich girl #maurice tourneur #filmedit #1910s #caps #*tplrg #*mtourneur

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la-cocotte-de-paris · 5 months

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#undertones

MAM'ZELLE BONAPARTE (1942), dir. Maurice Tourneur

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filmauteur · 2 years

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The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917) Directed by: Maurice Tourneur

#The Poor Little Rich Girl #Maurice Tourneur #*#by natty #classicfilmblr #classicfilmsource #cinemaspast #uservintage #filmedit #classichollywoodedit #fyeahmovies #userlenie #moviegifs #mary pickford

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musenemesis · 5 months

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L’oiseau bleu, film muet, 1918.

Dir. Maurice Tourneur

#maurice tourneur #l’oiseau bleu

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crumbargento · 3 months

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The Poor Little Rich Girl - Maurice Tourneur - 1917 - USA

thank you @marypickfords

#the poor little rich girl #maurice tourneur #mary pickford #silent film #silent movies

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gatutor · 4 months

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John Loder-Danielle Darrieux "Katia" 1938, de Maurice Tourneur.

#Danielle Darrieux #John Loder #Maurice Tourneur

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celebratetheclassics · 2 years

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The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917) dir. Maurice Tourneur

#maurice tourneur #the poor little rich girl #silent film #silent era #1910s #my gifs

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freakshowpuppet · 2 years

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La Main du Diable (1943) - Maurice Tourneur

#La main du diable #carnival of sinners #maurice tourneur

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byneddiedingo · 2 years

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Pierre Fresnay in La Main du Diable (Maurice Tourneur, 1943) Cast: Pierre Fresnay, Josseline Gaël, Noël Roquevert, Guillaume de Sax, Palau, Pierre Larquey, André Gabriello, Antoine Balpêtré, Marcelle Rexiane, André Varennes, Georges Chamarat, Jean Davy, Jean Despreaux, André Bacqué, Gabrielle Fontan. Screenplay: Jean-Paul Le Chanois, based on a novel by Gérard de Nerval. Cinematography: Armand Thirard. Production design: Andrej Andrejew, Film editing: Christian Gaudin. Music: Roger Dumas Maurice Tourneur's son, Jacques Tourneur, is better-known in the United States today because of his work for producer Val Lewton on arty horror films like Cat People (1942) and I Walked With a Zombie (1943), as well as the quintessential film noir Out of the Past (1947). Maurice had been a mainstay Hollywood director in the silent era -- director Clarence Brown named him as one of his mentors -- but grew impatient with studio interference and returned to France just as sound was coming in. As a result, La Main du Diable (released in the States as Carnival of Sinners) is probably his best-known film on this side of the Atlantic. It shares with his son's films a stylish approach to horror filmmaking, in which creating a mood takes precedence over shocking the audience. Based on a story by Gérard de Nerval, La Main du Diable is about a struggling artist, Roland Brissot (Pierre Fresnay), who buys a talisman, a severed hand in a casket, from a chef, paying only a penny for it. The chef claims that it has made him a success, but that it must be sold again, at less than the price Brissot paid him for it, before the artist dies. Otherwise his soul will be lost forever. Brissot's career takes off, making him rich, and he marries his model, Irène (Josseline Gaël), who had hitherto spurned him. But he soon finds that he's being stalked by a little man in black (Palau), the devil himself, who makes it clear that the talisman is the real thing and offers to buy it back from Brissot, who is unable to sell it because there's no coin smaller than the penny he had paid. The artist, enjoying his celebrity and wealth, turns him down, but is then informed that since the buyback offer has been made, the price will double each day. Soon the price has mounted into the millions and Brissot begins to panic, looking for a way to get rid of the hand. He then learns the lineage of the hand, which began several centuries ago with a deal made by a monk named Maximus Léo (André Bacqué) -- which is also the name Brissot, under the spell of the hand, has been signing to his paintings. If Brissot can reunite the hand with the monk's body, then the deal can be broken. All of this is told in flashback to a crowd at the inn in the French Alps to which Brissot has traveled, the little man in black pursuing him, trying to find the tomb of Maximus Léo. There's not really much horror on display in La Main du Diable, but the film is full of striking visuals, the work of production designer Andrej Andrejew and cinematographer Armand Thirard, and Tourneur directs a capable and colorful cast headed by Pierre Fresnay as Brissot. Since the film was made in occupied France, there are those who think it's a subversive allegory about the price exacted from the French in capitulating to the Nazis.

#La Main du Diable #Maurice Tourneur #Pierre Fresnay

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silentlondon · 1 year

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Hippfest 2023: the early days

I don’t want you to get the idea I am wanted by the authorities, but I tend to move around a lot. So for the second year in a row, I was only in town for the first half of Hippfest – or the early, funny stuff, as I like to think of it. I’ve said before that the programming at Hippfest, now in its 13th year, is impressively eclectic. I’d say that with extra emphasis during the midweek portion of…

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#Carl Theodor Dreyer #featured #Gault Collection #hippfest #Hippodrome Silent Film Festival #Maurice Tourneur #Reginald Denny #San Francisco Silent Film Festival #silent film #Zasu Pitts

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uspiria · 5 months

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The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917) dir. Maurice Tourneur

#the poor little rich girl #maurice tourneur #mary pickford #filmedit #classicfilmblr #1910s #caps #*#*tplrg #*mtourneur #*mary

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la-cocotte-de-paris · 5 months

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MAM'ZELLE BONAPARTE (1942), dir. Maurice Tourneur

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gianttankeh · 1 year

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Sonic Bothy Ensemble at HippFest, The Hippodrome, Bo'ness: 22/3/23.

The Sonic Bothy will perform a live soundtrack to the 1918 film 'The Blue Bird' at the opening night of this year's HippFest in Bo'ness. You can find view the festival's five day programme here, buy tickets to the event here or, if unable to join in person, stream the Ensemble's performance at 7:30pm online here.