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I'm guessing Kuleshov's 1918 Project of Engineer Prite (not on Twitter, so I can't make an official guess).

i think it's neither Eisenstein nor Dovzhenko

Is it even Russian? Couldn't the protag be traveling in Russia, or possibly the newspaper shot is part of a montage of around the world papers showing an on the run murderer or something?

Anyway, damn, don't you just hate it when you realize this is a film you've never seen and are never going to be able to guess? I defer to the senior members.

The problem for me is that all these images somehow seem familiar, but still I can't make heads or tails of them.... Perhaps Michael is right and it is indeed the Kuleshev, but I'm not at all sure about it. Can't Schreck or Knappen help us here?

I think it may be a French silent, partly because of the visual style but also the newspaper appears to be Les Dernieres Nouvelles, a Russian language paper edited in France by Pavel Milyukov (whose name is shown) between 1920 and 1940. So maybe an Albatros production with a contemporary setting and Russian characters. The visual style looks a bit avant-garde like Epstein or L'Herbier.

http://elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html

These might be easier to solve.

Jonathan S. has cracked the dreadfully misleading grab #3

Despite a ton of interesting shots in the dark, no-one on Twitter has got it.

About to post the fifth and final grab...

(I'm going to try and do this kind of thing for every new release - it's quite enjoyable!)

peerpee wrote:Jonathan S. has cracked the dreadfully misleading grab #3

Despite a ton of interesting shots in the dark, no-one on Twitter has got it.

About to post the fifth and final grab...

(I'm going to try and do this kind of thing for every new release - it's quite enjoyable!)

Yes full marks to JS for that detective work. I agree also that it has a french/Epstein feel to it too but I'm buggered if I can put a handle on it.
Nick, do you still pull the legs off spiders too?

#5

After that final screengrab, I give up.

It looks like a Julien Duvivier picture but maybe I'm just dreaming.

NilbogSavant wrote:It looks like a Julien Duvivier picture but maybe I'm just dreaming.

Yeah, that's actually what I've been thinking since the very first cap. But I could just as well be wrong of course.

I have no idea what the damned film is, but I want that house!

I have no idea what it is, but I'm going to buy it, and am adjusting my budget accordingly.

L'Herbier's The Late Mathias Pascal?

I haven't seen it, but am basing this on:
- Nick's assertion that Jonathan S. was on the right track
- an IMDb review that uses both the words "Russian" and "casino"

swo17 wrote:L'Herbier's The Late Mathias Pascal?

I haven't seen it, but am basing this on:
- Nick's assertion that Jonathan S. was on the right track
- an IMDb review that uses both the words "Russian" and "casino"

I already tried that one.

Also, isn't this one from a director who isn't already in the collection?

That's what I'm thinking now, so I think Duvivier may be a safe bet

It looks like French avant-garde of the 1920's - from what I've seen of L'Herbier it makes sense, but maybe another... The cultural interchange of PARIS-MOSCOW 1900-1930 a noted major exhibition @ Pompidou Centre circa 1979...

Looks like one of the interiors from L'inhumaine ... but that can't be it (too bad!).

I don't knwo the French silents as well as Knappen or Schreck. Where are they?

I'm thinking maybe Dmitri Kirsanov? Or Jean Gremillon.

I guessed Ozep's La dame de pique (Queen of Spades).

Does anyone have a list with the restorations that Cinematheque Francaise made on films before 1932?

I got an interesting guess... I'm not sure I twited my answer though... How do I? The 'Reply' button?