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Gance Abel . 1889--1981, French film director, whose works include J'accuse (1919, 1937) and Napol?on (1927), which introduced the split-screen technique How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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This historic, 1938 black-and-white film by the noted French director, Abel Gance, vividly brings Charpentier's portrait of the working class in 19th-century Paris to life. Whether Munk had any first-hand awareness of such films or not is not clear, but he had already made a short about railwaymen (Kolejarskie Slowo, 1953) and may simply have been tempted to capture once more shots of the railyards at night with clouds of steam enveloping the looming forms of the locomotives that years ago had captivated Abel Gance in La Roue (1923) or Renoir in La Bete humaine (1938). In their final chapter they examine how Proust influenced a number of distinguished directors, including Godard and Gance, noting the links between Proust's memory and that of the cinema. |
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