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		<title>Two Versions of &#8220;The Letter,&#8221; 1929 and 1940.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 14:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Warren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I revisited an old classic, The Letter (William Wyler, 1940) starring Bette Davis, and out of curiosity followed it up the next day with a screening of the lesser-known 1929 version of the same story, directed by Jean de Limur and starring the embattled Jeanne Eagels. While the earlier film is clearly the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=primaryshadows.com&#038;blog=27445068&#038;post=314&#038;subd=waybackfilmjournal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Abel Gance&#8217;s &#8220;Napoleon&#8221; (1927): A Fascist Masterpiece?  Not So Fast.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 17:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Warren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abel Gance is best remembered today for his 1927 film Napoleon, with its innovative camerawork, aggressive editing style, and the celebrated triptych that concludes the final reel. However, the historical and political aspects of the film are rarely discussed. Just as many admirers of D. W. Griffith excuse the racial overtones of The Birth of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=primaryshadows.com&#038;blog=27445068&#038;post=239&#038;subd=waybackfilmjournal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Hugo,&#8221; &#8220;The Artist,&#8221; and a soapbox moment.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Warren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Released in 2011, The Artist (dir. Michel Hazanavicius) and Hugo (dir. Martin Scorsese) are not films that I am likely to write about on this blog. My tendency is to choose films that we can use to study the past, and I prefer to write about films whose stories take place at the time of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=primaryshadows.com&#038;blog=27445068&#038;post=226&#038;subd=waybackfilmjournal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Breaking Home Ties&#8221; (Frank N. Seltzer and George K. Rowlands, 1922)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Warren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thought to be a lost film, Breaking Home Ties was recently restored by the National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University, and had its US re-premiere at the 2012 New York Jewish Film Festival. While the film successfully portrays a Russian-Jewish immigrant family in a positive and sympathetic light, it does not do so [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=primaryshadows.com&#038;blog=27445068&#038;post=202&#038;subd=waybackfilmjournal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Practically Yours&#8221; (Mitchell Leisen, 1944)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Warren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert made several films together in the 1930&#8242;s and 40&#8242;s that remain popular today. Many of their films are shown with regularity on TCM, and several have been released on DVD. Yet one of their most inventive comedies, Practically Yours, remains one of their least known. Directed by Mitchell Leisen in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=primaryshadows.com&#038;blog=27445068&#038;post=165&#038;subd=waybackfilmjournal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Shoes&#8221; (Lois Weber, 1916) and the Progressive Era</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Warren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the opportunity to see Shoes (1916) at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival last July. Written and directed by Lois Weber from a novel by Jane Addams, the story concerns Eva Meyer, a young woman who resorts to prostitution because she desperately needs money for a new pair of shoes. While Lois Weber [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=primaryshadows.com&#038;blog=27445068&#038;post=153&#038;subd=waybackfilmjournal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Adventures of Robin Hood&#8221; (Michael Curtiz, 1938): an anecdote and a statement of purpose.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Warren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn and directed by William Keighley and Michael Curtiz in 1938, has long been one of my favorite movies. The sumptuous Technicolor photography, the charisma and chemistry between its stars (Flynn and Olivia DeHavilland), the sense of fun and adventure, have all been well documented. There is no [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=primaryshadows.com&#038;blog=27445068&#038;post=140&#038;subd=waybackfilmjournal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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