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Louis Feuillade was an important and extremely prolific director of early silent films. Born in Lunel, France, Feuillade attended a Catholic seminary as a boy and then served four years in the cavalry before moving to Paris in 1898. By 1902, he had become a writer for the Right Wing royalist press and four years later began working in French film as a screenwriter. A short time after that, he began directing films. In 1907, Feuillade was appointed chief of production in charge of supervising all of Gaumont films, a job he did in addition to directing. During his less-than 20-year career, the hard-working Feuillade directed over 800 films of different lengths and a wide variety of genres; he ... wrote at least 100 film scripts for other directors.
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Louis Feuillade was a prolific director of French silent films. Feuillade worked in many genres, including comedy and realistic dramas. but today he is most admired for his spectacular serials. These often pitted master criminals against great detectives. Feuillade's work is of very high quality, and is still gripping and entertaining today. Feuillade was brought into the cinema by the pioneer director Alice Guy.
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Louis Feuillade, master of the early French serial, has undergone quite a little revival in recent years. His epic-length Les Vampires (1915) has received a full restoration and an acclaimed DVD release, while his seminal crime serial Fantomas was released in a terrific set in Region 2 (but alas not yet in the U.S.). Now his third great serial, Judex, the prototype for numerous television and comic book crime fighters, hits DVD with this second release from Flicker Alley.
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Louis Feuillade's pioneering silent serial -- whose ten episodes weigh in at nearly eight hours -- concerns Guèrande (Edouard Mathé), a journalist who is trying to uncover the truth about a mysterious society of anarchist gangsters who call themselves Les Vampires. While they don't drink the blood of the living, Les Vampires are the uncrowned monarchs of the criminal underworld, and as Guèrande struggles to learn the full extent of their lawless activities and the true identity of leaders the Grand Vampire (Jean Aymé) and Irma Vep (Juliet Musidora), he learns a tremendous amount about their intelligence, their cunning, and their treachery. A runaway hit in its initial release, which proved to be a major influence on the work of Fritz Lang and Alfred Hitchcock, Les Vampires ... inspired Olivier Assayas' revisionist look at the film's leading lady, Irma Vep. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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Louis Feuillade (pronounced ‘foo-yawd’) began working in films in 1905 for Gaumont’s main studio in France. In 1907, when Alice Guy the world’s first female film director left the company, Feuillade became responsible for Gaumont’s creative output. Over the next ten years, he wrote, directed and supervised hundreds of films, from comic shorts to dramatic features. When his serial thriller of 1915 and 1916, Les Vampires (pronounced ‘lay vam-peer’), was produced, Feuillade had long since matured as a filmmaker and the European film industry had confidently and irreversably embraced feature film production.
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Louis Feuillade was born in Lunel (Herault, France) to a family of modest wine merchants. Just beyond adolescence, he showed a deep interest in literature and created numerous drama and vaudeville projects. His excessively academic poems were occasionally published in local newspapers, and he acquired a reputation for his articles devoted to bullfighting. He came to Paris in 1898 to acquire literary fame, but would suffer miserably for several years.
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