Thread by @CarelessCarmody, Silent film streaming options are multiplying pretty rapidly right now: Cineteca Milano's [...]

Silent film streaming options are multiplying pretty rapidly right now: Cineteca Milano's growing offering, Cinémathèque Française's HENRI + CINEMATEK's FB ciné-concerts.

So I thought I'd follow this with an occasional thread of recs from what I've been streaming: https://twitter.com/CarelessCarmody/status/1246032159330181121

https://twitter.com/CarelessCarmody/status/1246032159330181121

Decadent and languid, with really exquisite stencil-colouring, Rapsodia Satanica (Nino Oxilia, 1917)—a Faustian vehicle for the great diva Lyda Borelli. Very taken with it. Cineteca Milano have put up a beautiful presentation, with Pietro Mascagni's score!
https://www.cinetecamilano.it/biblioteca/catalogo/record/1834

Wasn't feeling Karl Grune's *other* 1923 film, Schlagende Wetter, at first (seems to be at least a reel missing, which doesn't help), but the climax is really something. Not so much of a spoiler when the Italian title translates as 'Flames in the Mine'...
https://www.cinetecamilano.it/biblioteca/catalogo/record/1350

The Student of Prague? No, it's Kri Kri Fuma L'oppio (also 1913). 'Bloomer Smokes Opium' to UK and US audiences, with said opium leading, as it does, to multiple exposures and even a fairly early iteration of the old mirror routine,

https://www.cinetecamilano.it/biblioteca/catalogo/record/1728

La Morte Che Assolve (1918) really surprised me: strikingly beautiful, moves along nicely enough and finishes in style. Rare chance to see Elettra Raggio in a dual role as mother and daughter (maybe her only surviving film?).

https://www.cinetecamilano.it/biblioteca/catalogo/record/1609

Raskolnikow (1923): Crime and Punishment takes pretty well to Wiene. With a haggard, intense Gregori Chmara.

Far superior print to those I've seen elsewhere, if a little shorter at 65 mins (other versions online are anything from 70 to 110).

https://www.cinetecamilano.it/biblioteca/catalogo/record/1182

More great Lyda Borelli I belatedly made it to, though it looks like it's only available till tomorrow: Ma L'amor Mio Non Muore (1913).

https://www.cinetecamilano.it/biblioteca/catalogo/record/1865

Paris, a playground at an (almost) standstill, in the terrific 2018 restoration of René Clair's The Crazy Ray (1924)—here with English intertitles.

https://www.cinematheque.fr/henri/film/47696-paris-qui-dort-rene-clair-1925/

Cons:

- I've found the video player quite temperamental on my setup, but it seems that *if* you make it past the first couple of minutes without stalling, the rest should run fine.
- Really amazing, daring work overlooking Paris = heights.

https://www.cinematheque.fr/henri/film/47696-paris-qui-dort-rene-clair-1925/

Tontolini Fa Guerra Alla Suocera / Tontolini's Mother-in-Law (1911). Not sure what I was expecting, really.

https://www.cinetecamilano.it/biblioteca/catalogo/record/225

In lieu of the SPFL Premiership, maybe consider this long-unseen footage of the famous fifth final between Genoa and Bologna in 1925, played at 7am at a neutral venue after pitch invasions, fights, and shootings.
Not convinced that's safe standing.

https://www.cinetecamilano.it/biblioteca/catalogo/record/873

Life is hectic right now but did find a moment for Jaque Catelain's circus melodrama La galerie des monstres (1924) before it leaves HENRI tomorrow.

Very taken with it + it is *pristine* (w/ the usual caveat about getting the video player to work...)

https://www.cinematheque.fr/henri/film/52134-la-galerie-des-monstres-jaque-catelain-1924/

Revisiting this, partly now that I have a little more time to spare, but mainly because of L'Hirondelle et la Mésange (1920) now being on HENRI. Enchanted me like few others at the Bonn festival in 2018 ( + the HENRI player is now so much more reliable!)

https://www.cinematheque.fr/henri/film/46444-l-hirondelle-et-la-mesange-andre-antoine-1920/

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