Cinema Odeon was located in Cairo’s old downtown theatre district. It was specialized in Russian and Italian films in the early 1950s. The center of the façade features finishes in both stucco and glass in an Art Moderne style.
📷: Cinema Odeon, Alexandria, 1960s
The NEW QUEER CINEMA movement in film & video was intensely political & aesthetically innovative, made possible by the debut of the camcorder, and driven initially by outrage over the unchecked spread of AIDS
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Film legend Buster Keaton died #OnThisDay in 1966.
Immerse yourself (har har) in the making of one of his favorite of his own films, "The Navigator" (1924), on our blog!:
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One of the earliest uses of intertitles, the climax of Cecil Hepworth’s How It Feels to Be Run Over (1900) is followed by text flashing almost imperceptibly before our eyes: “?!!!? ! Oh! Mother will be pleased”.
The full 42 seconds of the film here: https://t.co/6AmMGX7gJI
Baron Munchausen’s Dream (1911) — Georges Méliès shows customary boundless imagination in this short film depicting the pleasures and terrors that plague the drunken baron: https://t.co/Y55bA3ya1X