TrueBloodNet.com - True Blood News (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
On November 5, 2009 Alexander Skarsgard, Sam Trammell, Michelle Forbes, and Rutina Wesley attended the premiere of Season 2 of True Blood in Paris, France at the Max Linder Cinema. In the video Alex, Sam, Rutina and Michelle do a Q & A session before the screening of episode 1 and 2. Sam has studied [...]
TrueBloodNet.com - True Blood News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
On November 5th Alexander Skarsgard joined his costars Sam Trammell, Michelle Forbes, and Rutina Wesley for the premiere of True Blood in Paris, France at the Max Linder Cinema. Alexander had just flown in from Sweden where he was re-shooting some scenes for his new movie, “Puss”. Prior to this Alexander was in New York [...]
I Need My Fix (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The cast of ‘True Blood,‘ Sam Trammell, Michelle Forbes, Sophie Soulignac, Rutina Wesley, and Alexander Skarsgard premiere the HBO hit at the Max Linder Cinema in Paris, France. Not a... Thanks for subscribing to our newsletter. To view content such as video and/or photos, please click on the headline of the story you are interested in. Your viewership is greatly appreciated. Have a fabulous...
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 04/10/2009
Page 52 of Walter Kerr's invaluable book, "The Silent Clowns," is devoted to a breathtaking photo portrait of the French comedian Max Linder (1883-1925), who became the first internationally recognized star of silent film comedies in the decade before World War I. It's a right profile pose that displays two of the characteristic Linder props, a top hat and an expertly barbered moustache....
SHADOWPLAY (Free subscription) | 30/08/2009
An oddly anachronistic intertitle from Max Linder’s THE THREE MUST-GET-THERES, which, as its title strongly hints, is a somewhat lame Fairbanks spoof. But there are compensations — Linder himself is never less than appealing, and there are some grotesque images. In fact, the whole thing is weirdly unpleasant. Bull Montana as the Cardinal, every bit as [...]
Furthermucker (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Last Friday the Forum des Images reopened in the first arrondissement center of Paris. The film archive/theater has been closed for business the entire four years I’ve been living here. In the interim, they’ve been showing an eclectic movie schedule over at the old Max Linder panorama theater (marble floors, etc.). Back in May I saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid there for the first...
SHADOWPLAY (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
My last post of Shadowplay Year One! Comic redundancy in Abel Gance’s AU SECOURS! (HELP!), starring comedy immortal Max Linder. Here, in a shot borrowed from a Griffith gangster melodrama, a street Apache lurks in wait for the unsuspecting Max, who’s on his way to the club. Cut to: This shot milks the audience for poignancy/dramatic irony, since [...]
Culture-buzz (Free subscription) | 22/10/2008
France's first Viral Film Festival took place at the legendary Cinéma Max Linder in Paris yesterday evening. More than 300 videos were sent to the festival's professional jury, who then carried out a pre-selection process, narrowing down the number to 60 videos. The jury then had the difficult task of choosing the winner for each of the five categories. Over 500 people attended the event that...
Not Coming to a Theater Near You (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
“Laughter is a new kind of weapon. A type of light gun, very effective in cases where there is no need to employ heavy tanks of social wrath,” wrote Sergei Eisenstein in 1937, describing his ideal vision of Socialist Comedy as a new genre. Just over thirty years earlier in France, as cinema was nearing the decade mark and Georges Méliès was exploring the fantastic and the...
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