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Left Bank Cinema: Scalarama – London Symphony
Could it be that the city symphony film genre is making a comeback?
City symphonies originally became popular in the silent era, when the ‘rules’ of filmmaking were still being discovered. Films like Études sur Paris (1928) and Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927) offer fascinating glimpses of the times and fashions in Europe’s great cities, while the experimental documentary Man With a Movie Camera (1929) regularly tops lists of people’s favourite films of all time.
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City symphonies originally became popular in the silent era, when the ‘rules’ of filmmaking were still being discovered. Films like Études sur Paris (1928) and Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927) offer fascinating glimpses of the times and fashions in Europe’s great cities, while the experimental documentary Man With a Movie Camera (1929) regularly tops lists of people’s favourite films of all time.
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19:30, £4.00 -£5.00
Left Bank Leeds, Cardigan Rd, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS6 1LJ
Thu 28 Sep 2017
Website:
www.londonsymphfilm.com/index.htm
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