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One of the Most Amazing Silent Movies (or Movies of Any Era, Period) Ever Made Tops the List of Best of Movies Released in 1921 Rex Ingram’s The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Metro Pictures' film version of Vicente Blasco Ibáñez’s epic novel -- from a scenario by the immensely powerful writer-producer June Mathis -- catapulted Mathis’ protégé, the until then little known Rudolph Valentino (photo, left), to worldwide superstardom, as The Four Horsemen became one of the biggest box-office hits of the silent era. Ingram’s wife, the invariably excellent Alice Terry (right, dark-haired in real life; a light-haired in her many movies), played Valentino's love interest. Ninety-two years after its initial launch, the Four Horsemen remains a monumental achievement. Released by MGM, Vincente Minnelli's 1962 remake of this Metro Pictures production featured an all-star cast: Glenn Ford, Ingrid Thulin (dubbed by Angela Lansbury), Charles Boyer, Lee J. Cobb,...

Camille 2000

Review by Pete of Mondo Squallido

Stars: Daniéle Gaubert, Nino Castelnuovo, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Roberto Biasco, Massimo Serato | Written by Michael DeForrest | Directed by Radley Metzger

Here in the UK another big moment in cult cinema history has fallen upon us. A trio of Radley Metzger’s highly influential and well loved erotic classics have finally been released in all their glory and packed full of features from Arrow Video on deluxe Blu-ray and DVD combo packages. The first film chronologically out of the three is Camille 2000 and that is the DVD I will look at first.

Camille 2000 is an adaptation of a French novel called The Lady Of The Camellias, written in 1848 by Alexandre Dumas. The film follows the tragic relationship between a stunningly beautiful, luxurious and premiscuous woman by the name of Marguerite (Gaubert) who meets a rich, handsome and charming man called Armand...

If there are two things I love in the world, they are, in order, 1) Old Movies About Love Starring Really Amazing Actresses and 2) 19th Century Novels About Adultery That End Sadly. Do not fuck with my two things.

Tolstoy's 19th Century Russian novel about the titular unhappily-married, seduced-by-true-love, and then hit-by-train (ooops, spoiler alert!) Anna Karenina is rivaled only perhaps by Flaubert's 19th Century French novel about an unhappily married, seduced-but-ends-badly woman named Madame Bovary. But Anna Karenina has an entire chapter devoted to a dog's inner monologue so it is by far my favorite of the two.

That being said, the story has been put to film several times, usually quite well.

Artsy Fartsy, but beautiful-looking in a Baz-Luhrmann kind of way, this trailer for the 2012 new version of Anna Karenina from Joe Wright (Hanna) starring Kiera Knightley just doesn't quite live up to the predecessors. Why? Kiera has no personality.