Volume 45, Number 1 · January 15, 1998
A Language of Their Own
By Garry Wills
Interntional Silent Film Festival
Pordenone, Italy
For sixteen years now, the International Silent Film Festival (Giornate del Cinema Muto) has been unearthing buried treasures from all around the world—this year's finds were from China, reflecting a crucial period in that country's history. Virtually every major restorer, archivist, or film historian of the movies' first three decades converges in October on Pordenone, a prosperous town in Friuli that has a beautiful medieval core.
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