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"Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood" (1995)
6 out of 6 people found the following comment useful :-
Required viewing for film buffs!, 20 October 2000
Author: eegah-3 (eegah@hotmail.com) from Minneapolis, MN
Yes it's long at 6 hours but you'll never be bored by the constant barrage of rare old films and amazing facts about the early days of European cinema. Kenneth Branagh is a fine narrator you'll learn so much over the course of this excellent documentary about early Swedish, German, French and British cinema. Did you know that the anamorphic lens used for CinemaScope was invented in France in the 1920's but suppressed by the French government for nearly 30 years? And then see the few remaining frames from the one film shot in this process. Watch this mini-series documentary and find out much, much more!
5 out of 5 people found the following comment useful :-
The Silent Era, 15 February 1999
Author: (rockcent@aol.com) from Elizabeth, New Jersey
Kevin Brownlow & David Gill have done it again. After doing great justice to Hollywood in the silent era (Hollywood, The Unknow Chaplin, Buster Keaton: A hard Act To Follow & Harold Lloyd: The Third Guineus), they took on the silent films from Europe. Carl davis has written yet again a fabulous score. Why hasn't the Academy Awards honored these guys. Being from England (Davis is a New Yorker),these guys care more about our film heritage than anyone in Hollywood does.
2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful :-
Should be on the shelf of any serious film buff., 9 January 2007
Author: Thorkell A Ottarsson from Drammen, Norway
Cinema Europe should appeal to anyone interested in film history, especially the silent era. Its goal is to document the birth of cinema in Europe and its development all the way to the early years of the sound film - in just 6 hours! Six hours is way to short for such an endeavor but the filmmakers manage to pack amazing amount of information in to these six hours, so much in fact that one is left with the desire to see it immediately again.
The film is in six parts. The first covering the birth of cinema in Europe, the second one is about the Swedish silent film industry, the third one about the German Masters, the fourth one about France, the fifth one about Britain and the last one about the death of silent cinema and the arrival of sound.
One would expect that the German part would be the best of the six but it was unfortunately one of the least interesting, IMO. This may have something to do with the fact that I knew the German story quite well, but I just felt that it lacked insight and a clear direction. The same goes for the Swedish part. The narrator spends most of the time retelling the plot of the films in question, including their end.
The France and English parts are pure pleasure to watch. They are full of well based social insight and focus more on techniques and experiments than story lines. The British one is admirably honest and at part quite funny.
The transfer of the films they show is exceptionally good and the collections of the shots they gather together here is a goldmine. Many of the films shown from in the documentary are still not available on VHS or DVD.
On the down side though, I felt they often chose wrong scenes from the films they picked, and left out much superior scenes, but such is always a matter of opinion.
Cinema Europe is a true gem which I'm going to revisit again and again in the future. It should be on the shelf of any serious film buff.
3 out of 5 people found the following comment useful :-
Marvelous documentary with exquisitive opening theme., 24 May 1999
Author: Peter Burgess Griggs from Essex County. New Jersey
This is the type of documentary I live for. The Brownlow/Gill team have produced some very intriguing documentaries on the silent film era - about which I knew very little until I saw ALL of them (and a wonderful marathon of Buster Keaton silents on American Movie Classics channel about 3 years ago.)
Encore! Bravo!
2 out of 4 people found the following comment useful :-
Offers so much and leaves you wanting even more., 20 September 2002
Author: tmccraw from Atlanta GA
This documentary brings out the excitement of the artistry and sheer beauty of the medium of film, showing us that the pioneers are quite often still the masters. This is a cinema history lesson that is mandatory viewing for all fans of silent films. Cinema Europe is the best documentary that I have ever seen on any subject. A perfect 10
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