Kevin Brownlow
Kevin Brownlow
Kevin Brownlowis a British film historian, television documentary-maker, filmmaker, author, and film editor. Brownlow is best known for his work documenting the history of the silent era. Brownlow became interested in silent film at the age of eleven. This interest grew into a career spent documenting and restoring film. He has rescued many silent films and their history. His initiative in interviewing many largely forgotten, elderly film pioneers in the 1960s and 1970s preserved a legacy of cinema. Brownlow received...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth2 June 1938
They felt a lot of Garbo myths were wrong. It was unfair to her they hadn't been corrected. It would have been very interesting to do a documentary with the family alone.
In a sense those tests conveyed more of her personality than anything else we've seen. . . . You suddenly see what it must have been like just to sit next to her.
I tried hard to meet her, but when I saw her in the street, I turned to a pillar of salt.
My first restoration was on Napoleon, trying to put the French version in with the English version, and it was most unsatisfactory.
Napoleon is pure cinema, and cinema was designed for sharing.
I thought Michael Mortilla was an orchestra unto himself!
Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational.
She never gives a bad performance. There are one or two disappointing films, like Mata Hari, but it's still full of fabulous imagery.