Name: The Wheel - First Period
Director: Abel Gance
Released: 1923
Cast: Ivy Close, Séverin-Mars, Gabriel de Gravone, Pierre Magnier, Gil Clary

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Ivy Close

Séverin-Mars

Gabriel de Gravone

Pierre Magnier

Gil Clary

Georges Térof

Abel Gance à propos de J'accuse et de La Roue

Sisif, a railwayman, and his son Elie fall in love with the beautiful Norma (who Sisif rescued from a train crash when a baby and raised as his daughter), with tragic results. Originally running nine hours, this epic tragedy is notable for the way it foreshadows Gance&#x27;s later &#x27;Napoleon&#x27; in its use of innovative cinematic devices, particularly rapid cutting.

The Wheel - First Period

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Apr&egrave;s un grave incident de chemin de fer, le m&eacute;canicien Sisif recueille Norma, une petite orpheline. Il l&rsquo;&eacute;l&egrave;ve avec son propre fils Elie, qui a le m&ecirc;me &acirc;ge qu&rsquo;elle, et tous deux s&rsquo;entendent &agrave; merveille. Seulement plus&nbsp;Norma grandit, plus Sisif d&eacute;veloppe des sentiments ambigus &agrave; son &eacute;gard. Arriv&eacute;e &agrave; l&rsquo;adolescence, l&rsquo;obsession de Sisif &agrave; l&rsquo;&eacute;gard de la jeune fille est telle qu&rsquo;il refuse qu&rsquo;elle voit des gar&ccedil;ons et devient violent. Mais un ing&eacute;nieur, Monsieur de Hersan, est bien d&eacute;cid&eacute; &agrave; demander en mariage sa fille ador&eacute;e.

Note : &agrave; propos de La Roue, Jean Cocteau a dit &laquo; Il y a le cin&eacute;ma d&rsquo;avant et d&rsquo;apr&egrave;s La Roue comme il y a la peinture d&rsquo;avant et d&rsquo;apr&egrave;s Picasso &raquo;.

The Wheel - Second Period

The Wheel - Third Period

Sisif, a railwayman, and his son Elie fall in love with the beautiful Norma (who Sisif rescued from a train crash when a baby and raised as his daughter), with tragic results. Originally running nine hours, this epic tragedy is notable for the way it foreshadows Gance&#x27;s later &#x27;Napoleon&#x27; in its use of innovative cinematic devices, particularly rapid cutting.

The Wheel - Fourth Period

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Jean Dax

Armand Bernard

Lil Dagover

Lilian Harvey

Henri Garat

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Der Kongreß tanzt

Albert Dieudonné

Antonin Artaud

Gina Manès

Alexandre Koubitzky

Edmond Van Daële

Eugénie Buffet

Georges Lampin

Jean Rauzéna

A film about the French general&#x27;s youth and early military career.

Napoleon

Victor Francen

Line Noro

Marcel Delaître

Renée Devillers

Jean Max

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J'accuse !

Deutsch

french - SME

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Henri Guisol

Viviane Romance

Jean Aquistapace

Lucienne Lemarchand

Marion Malville

Sylvie Gance

The imaginary voyage of a woman gone blind on her former lover&#x27;s boat.

Réalisme poétique français

Blind Venus

FR - HD 

Michel Bouquet

Lia Di Leo

Paul Guers

Silvana Pampanini

Jacques Toja

Constant Rémy

Marcel Raine

Cristina Grado

Nelly Kaplan

Pierre Brasseur

France, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy and her two sisters arrange orgies, to which beautiful nobles are invited. The young men were brought blindfolded, and after a night of love they were killed and their corpses thrown into the river, because the queen was afraid that her husband would learn about her adventures. One of her lovers managed to escape death. He knows the secrets of the queen, knows that she once gave birth to a son from him, claims that he has evidence that Margarita wanted to kill her father and blackmails her.

Tower of Lust

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Joseph Farnham

Zasu Pitts

Gibson Gowland

Jean Hersholt

Dale Fuller

Tempe Pigott

Sylvia Ashton

Chester Conklin

Frank Hayes

Joan Standing

Vera Cruz, 1938. &quot;Le Rital&quot;, a tough French hit man, agrees to serve Mexican revolutionaries who want to replace the current President by Chico, an insecure young bourgeois that they intend to manipulate. The killing of the President is to take place in a small town whose &quot;great lady&quot;, Camito, is an alluring former thespian and the despot&#x27;s mistress. Things go according to plan as the President commits the imprudence to come and see Camito without his escort. &quot;Le Rital&quot; just has to pull the trigger and his mission is achieved. But to no avail actually as the revolutionaries prove unable to take advantage of the situation. Worse, &quot;Le Rital&quot; finds himself driven to shoot at Chico(without killing him though) whereas he has become close to him. In the end he leaves Mexico for new adventures without anybody knowing that deep inside himself he is a broken man.

Expressionnisme allemand

L’âge d’or des studios américains 

Greed

English

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Florence Vidor

Monte Blue

Marie Prevost

Creighton Hale

Adolphe Menjou

Harry Myers

Esther Ralston

Professor Stock and his wife Mizzi are always bickering. Mizzi tries to seduce Dr. Franz Braun, the new husband of her good friend Charlotte. Dr. Braun&#x27;s colleague, Dr. Mueller, who has had his eye on Charlotte, sees this as his opportunity, even though the Braun&#x27;s are very happily married.

The Marriage Circle

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Buster Keaton

Joe Keaton

Natalie Talmadge

Joe Roberts

Ralph Bushman

Craig Ward

Monte Collins

Kitty Bradbury

Buster Keaton Jr.

Leonard Clapham

Edward Coxen

Jean Dumas

Jack Duffy

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Our Hospitality

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Henry Bergman

Charles Farrell

Malvina Polo

Edna Purviance

Clarence Geldart

Carl Miller

Lydia Knott

Charles K. French

Betty Morrissey

Nellie Bly Baker

Frank Coghlan Jr.

Harry d' Abbadie d'Arrast

Jean de Limur

Granville Redmond

Charlie Chaplin

Against the wishes of their tyrannical parents, Jean and Marie decide to elope to Paris. The sudden death of Jean&rsquo;s father makes it impossible for him to meet her at the station, and Marie heads for Paris alone. A year later, Jean finds her in the arms of a rich and decadent playboy&hellip; and tragedy ensues. 
Highly acclaimed by filmmakers from Lubitsch to Scorsese, this brilliant yet subtle Parisian fresco reveals the dramatic genius of the King of Comedy.

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

Edith Yorke

Norman Kerry

Mary Philbin

Cesare Gravina

George Hackathorne

George Siegmann

A nobleman, posing as a necktie salesman, falls in love with the daughter of a circus puppeteer, even though he is already married to the daughter of his country&#x27;s war minister.

Merry-Go-Round

Léon Mathot

Claude Bénédict

Manfroy

Mademoiselle Marice

Marie wants to escape from her job and also from her lover, Paul, an unemployed drunk. She dreams of going off with Jean, a dockworker. The two men quarrel and fight over Marie on two occasions, but Paul retains a hold over her. Marie has a baby who falls ill and as time goes on Jean and a crippled neighbor try to help the child. Paul nearly causes the death of the child whilst in a drunken stupor and in a final struggle that occurs, the crippled woman seizes Paul&#x27;s gun and shoots him dead.

The Faithful Heart

Charles Vanel

Ivan Mozzhukhin

Hélène Darly

Francine Mussey

An imaginative wedding scene shot in silhouette, begins a tale of murder blackmail and romance covering a period of about 18 years, ending around 1923.

La Maison du mystère

La Cinémathèque française

Hidden Treasures

Home

The House of Mystery - part one

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The House of Mystery - part three

Jean d'Yd

Germaine Dermoz

Madeleine Guitty

Alexandre Arquillière

Raoul Paoli

An unhappily married woman devises a scheme to get rid of her husband.

Les pionnières du cinéma

FPA Classics

The Smiling Madame Beudet

FR - HD - LOBSTER

Alexander Granach

Fritz Kortner

Gustav von Wangenheim

Ruth Weyher

A wealthy man invites the local wealthy bachelors over for a puppet show about men who covet another man&#x27;s wife. The puppeteer is actually a witch and gives the men nightmares about what could happen if they date the lady of the house.

Warning Shadows

Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination

Harold Lloyd

Mildred Davis

Bill Strother

Noah Young

Wescott B. Clarke

A boy leaves his small country town and heads to the big city to get a job. As soon as he makes it big his sweetheart will join him and marry him. His enthusiasm to get ahead leads to some interesting adventures.

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