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Journal of Film Preservation - FIAF

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El programa principal de la 21a edición<br />

de las Jornadas del cine mudo de<br />

Pordenone fue dedicado a un tema<br />

ligero: “Las mujeres cómicas,”<br />

cubriendo una amplia filmografía<br />

tanto del punta de vista cronológico<br />

que nacional, algunas aún vivas en<br />

nuestras memorias, otras caídas en el<br />

olvido. Los puntos fuertes del<br />

programa fueron la reconstitución del<br />

espectáculo de un Nickelodeon de los<br />

años 10. Se destaca también la<br />

proyección de películas de los<br />

británicos Mitchell y Kenyon, las<br />

películas de animación de cada<br />

mañana de “Jerry the Tyke” y las<br />

curiosidades “eróticas” de Lobster<br />

<strong>Film</strong>s, que actualmente restaura “The<br />

Wolves <strong>of</strong> Kultur”.<br />

Este año, la retrospectiva nacional<br />

Suiza brindó al publico la posibilidad<br />

de descubrir algunos largometrajes<br />

sorprendentes y de redescubrir la<br />

producción de los clásicos de su<br />

producción de documentales.<br />

El programa de la vanguardia italiana,<br />

la retrospectiva Griffith y la<br />

proyección de películas del proyecto<br />

“Saving the Silents” tuvieron el éxito<br />

de los años anteriores. Hiroshi<br />

Komatsu y Donata Pesenti<br />

Campagnoni recibieron el Premio Jean<br />

Mitry y Haghefilm presentó las<br />

películas preservadas por los<br />

beneficiarios del Premio y del<br />

“Fellowship”. En la otra sala, el cine<br />

Ruffo, tuvieron lugar las reuniones del<br />

Collegium Sacilense y las proyecciones<br />

video. Neil Brand rindió homenaje a<br />

Jonathan Dennis, fundador del New<br />

Zealand <strong>Film</strong> Archive, fallecido el año<br />

pasado.<br />

La obra preferida del autor de la<br />

presente crítica es sin duda la<br />

performance de Marion Davies en The<br />

Patsy.<br />

long-lost London After Midnight and Kevin Brownlow’s fascinating look<br />

at the Chaplin-Hitler complex, The Tramp and the Dictator. Also at the<br />

Ruffo, a chance to compare surviving prints <strong>of</strong> Buster Keaton shorts in<br />

side-by-side synchronous format.<br />

All head coverings must again be removed in honour <strong>of</strong> the musicians<br />

without whom the Silent <strong>Film</strong> Festival would actually be horrifyingly<br />

silent: Phil Carli, Tama Karema, Donald Sosin, John Sweeney, the toolong<br />

absent Gabriel Thibaudeau, and a special mention to Romano<br />

Todesco, whose accordion beautifully complemented Neil Brand’s piano<br />

and Guenter Buchwald’s violin for the closing event, Exit Smiling.<br />

There is stiff competition for closing spot in these lines. Runner-up is<br />

the Jonathan Dennis<br />

Memorial Lecture,<br />

named for the late<br />

founder <strong>of</strong> the New<br />

Zealand <strong>Film</strong><br />

Archive. Neil Brand’s<br />

“Where Does the<br />

Music Come From?,”<br />

apart from being a<br />

most fitting tribute<br />

to Jonathan Dennis’s<br />

life and work, was a<br />

remarkable tour de<br />

force. Entertaining,<br />

moving, thoughtprovoking,<br />

none <strong>of</strong><br />

the adjectives do<br />

justice to Brand’s<br />

bold attempt to get<br />

to the bottom <strong>of</strong> one<br />

particular aspect <strong>of</strong><br />

creativity, the one<br />

that has made the<br />

Giornate tick for the<br />

last twenty-one<br />

years.<br />

But if there was one moment that was still more special than all the<br />

others, I think my personal choice must be that in which Marion Davies,<br />

in The Patsy, gives her impressions <strong>of</strong> three <strong>of</strong> her contemporaries. It<br />

wasn’t just a moment <strong>of</strong> talent, humour (excruciating hilarity is a little<br />

more to the point) and fun. It was a moment <strong>of</strong> unity in which several<br />

hundred people, whether consciously or not, must have realized that<br />

very few others in the world today outside the walls <strong>of</strong> the Zancanaro<br />

Theatre know enough to get the joke anymore and that, while others<br />

may consider them odd or even obsessed, they actually share a secret<br />

that, literally, cannot be told in words.<br />

68 <strong>Journal</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Preservation</strong> / 65 / 2002<br />

Gloria Swanson in The Danger Love / Love on Skates,<br />

Clarence Badger, 1916.<br />

Source: The Kobal Collection / Le Giornate del Cinema<br />

Muto 2002

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