Kevin Brownlow and Christopher Bird offer an informative yet intimate look at one of the most mysterious leading ladies in history, considered to this day the greatest film icon of all time. Following her first steps in Sweden where she forged her screen identity under the guidance of Mauritz Stiller, we witness her transition to […]
Famous for his roles as Quasimodo and the Phantom of the Opera, Lon Chaney was for a long time remembered simply as a horror star, but he was in fact Hollywood’s first character star. Using his skill with make-up, he created an extraordinary gallery of characters, from the mundane to the truly bizarre. With film […]
In 17th century England, in the wake of Oliver Cromwell’s civil war, Gerard Winstanley led the Diggers to form a commune and till the soil on “common land.” Based on Winstanley’s writings (which also inspired Marx), Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo set out to make an absolutely authentic historic film, even borrowing armor from the […]
It Happened Here supplies a re-write of history where Germany has won World War II and Nazi troops occupy England. The film is a terrifying intimation of what might have happened if the Allied effort had failed. Kevin Brownlow was only 18 when he and Andrew Mollo started this monumental documentary style drama that took […]
Kevin Brownlow explores the life one of the giants of Hollywood film history. Cecil B DeMille, tyrant, visionary, highly successful filmmaker – a character larger than life who produced unforgettable epics which helped forge Hollywood mythology. This two-hour documentary follows his entire career, from his prolific contribution to silent cinema to the Technicolor sound epics […]
This double feature reflects the range of Kevin Brownlow’s scope. In I’m King Kong!, he tracks the life of Merian C. Cooper, who pioneered documentary making with films such as Grass and Chang before creating his most famous work King Kong. In The Tramp & the Dictator, Brownlow looks at the production of Charlie Chaplin’s […]