Inuzuka Minoru

[Mark R. Harris]

A long-delayed follow-up observation about very old directors. The
Russian-born director and producer Eugene Frenke, who worked in Europe and
Hollywood from 1931 to 1971, would appear to be turning 101 on January 1,
2008. I say "would appear to be" because, although the IMDB and Wikipedia
list Frenke as alive (or not dead, anyway), I'd like to know his current
whereabouts before asserting his status confidently. He co-directed his
first feature in 1935, not quite the Twenties but a very long time ago. His
first production credit, on the German film *The Brothers Karamazov*, came
in 1931, the same year as Manoel de Oliveira's first meaningful credit
(Oliveira was an onscreen extra in a 1928 silent film).

Best,
Mark Harris


On 10/6/07, Alexander Jacoby <a_p_jacoby at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>  And of course there is Kaurismaki's Juha. OK then - the challenge will
> have to be "last director alive to have worked in the twenties", with the
> thirties as a further interesting query. Unless people think this is getting
> off topic for what is after all a Japanese cinema mailing list!
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: thomas.lamarre <thomas.lamarre at mcgill.ca>
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Sent: Saturday, 6 October, 2007 6:54:48 PM
> Subject: Re: Inuzuka Minoru
>
> Just to add to this train of thought: there are other reasons to make
> silent
> films, if we look at Guy Maddin's recent silent 'Brand upon the Brain,'
> which was performed in Toronto with Isabella Rosselinni as the live
> narrator
> but which has been released more widely as a 'silent' (with the caveat the
> silent films often have sound and music).
>
> Tom
>
>
> On 10/6/07 12:56 PM, "Aaron Gerow" <aaron.gerow at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> > I actually conveyed the question to a film studies list. We'll see what
> > others come up with.
> >
> >> I was thinking of Oliveira, which is why I didn't say the thought that
> >> initially occured to me of "last director to have made silent films" -
> >> since Oliveira's short documentary Douro - Faina Fluvial (1931) is
> >> silent. Having said that, I could have said "Was Inuzuka the last
> >> director to have made silent features"?
> >
> > The problem with saying "silent features" is that there were some
> > countries, like Korea, that were making silent features into the 1940s
> > due to various historical circumstances. Japan, of course, was
> > releasing silent features up until about 1937. Perhaps restricting the
> > question to the 1920s helps avoids these differences in circumstance.
> >
> >
> > Aaron Gerow
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