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Backstage Blogathon: John Ford’s Upstream

17 Sunday Jan 2016

Posted by la Clarina in Silents, Stories, Theatre

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Backstage Blogathon, Earle Fox, Emile Chautard, John Ford, Movies Silently, Nancy Nash, Silent Movies, Sister Celluloid, Upstream

backstage-blogathon-show-peopleSo, this is my contribution to the Backstage Blogathon, an exploration of how the movies used to portray themselves and the other performing arts – co-hosted by Movies Silently and Sister Celluloid.

I’m sure you won’t be shocked to find out I chose a movie about… theatre folks – and the movie is John Ford‘s once lost silent “Upstream.”

Shall we?

Upstream had been on my Treasure Hunt List for some time – actually, since I heard about its European début at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto di Pordenone, back in 2010. I must say I’m not a Ford fan, but I find it hard to resist the appeal of things lost and found – and, more significantly, this was a tale about theatre…  Continue reading →

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