Cristina Prasso
@criprasso.bsky.social
Editorial director at astoria edizioni. ░ Book reader by day, (silent) film buff (and knitter) by night. ░ «It isn't mink! It's kolinsky!» ░ Lermontov: Interesting quotes and book excerpts about (mostly silent) movies https://crispra.substack.com/
On the margin of so many things - George Cukor’s lessons in style crispra.substack.com/p/on-the-mar...
On the margin of so many things
George Cukor’s lessons in style
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December 2, 2025 at 6:07 AM
On the margin of so many things - George Cukor’s lessons in style crispra.substack.com/p/on-the-mar...
The ballyhoo phonograph - Music and early cinema
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The ballyhoo phonograph
Music and early cinema
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November 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The ballyhoo phonograph - Music and early cinema
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«Doesn't Dickens write that way?» - D.W. Griffith, the Biograph Company and an unusual picture: crispra.substack.com/p/doesnt-dic...
«Doesn't Dickens write that way?»
D.W. Griffith, the Biograph Company and an unusual picture
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November 17, 2025 at 11:17 AM
«Doesn't Dickens write that way?» - D.W. Griffith, the Biograph Company and an unusual picture: crispra.substack.com/p/doesnt-dic...
«That’s he – that’s Valentino.» - The new Czar of Hollywood: crispra.substack.com/p/thats-he-t...
«That’s he – that’s Valentino»
The new Czar of Hollywood
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November 11, 2025 at 6:32 AM
«That’s he – that’s Valentino.» - The new Czar of Hollywood: crispra.substack.com/p/thats-he-t...
«The script is inane, vacuous, pompous, unreal, unbelievable – and dull» - Joe Swerling, the man who knew how to take a story and tell it crispra.substack.com/p/the-script...
«The script is inane, vacuous, pompous, unreal, unbelievable – and dull»
Joe Swerling, the man who knew how to take a story and tell it
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November 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
«The script is inane, vacuous, pompous, unreal, unbelievable – and dull» - Joe Swerling, the man who knew how to take a story and tell it crispra.substack.com/p/the-script...
Freedom of censorship - What was «obscene, indecent, inhuman, sacrilegious, likely to incite to crime» in 1915? crispra.substack.com/p/freedom-of...
Freedom of censorship
What was «obscene, indecent, inhuman, sacrilegious, likely to incite to crime» in 1915?
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October 27, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Freedom of censorship - What was «obscene, indecent, inhuman, sacrilegious, likely to incite to crime» in 1915? crispra.substack.com/p/freedom-of...
«Garbo was man, woman and child.» - Sunday brunch at John Gilbert’s crispra.substack.com/p/garbo-was-...
«Garbo was man, woman and child.»
Sunday brunch at John Gilbert’s
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October 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
«Garbo was man, woman and child.» - Sunday brunch at John Gilbert’s crispra.substack.com/p/garbo-was-...
«The first man on either side of the water to be hired for no other purpose than to write pictures.» - The birth of screenwriting: crispra.substack.com/p/the-first-...
«The first man on either side of the water to be hired for no other purpose than to write pictures.»
The birth of screenwriting
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October 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
«The first man on either side of the water to be hired for no other purpose than to write pictures.» - The birth of screenwriting: crispra.substack.com/p/the-first-...
A stick in front of the screen - Asta Nielsen, Danish Actress in America
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A stick in front of the screen
Asta Nielsen, Danish Actress in America
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October 6, 2025 at 12:25 PM
A stick in front of the screen - Asta Nielsen, Danish Actress in America
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A great way to have fun and get paid for it
Roscoe «Fatty» Arbuckle and Mabel Normand's knack for talent - crispra.substack.com/p/a-great-wa...
Roscoe «Fatty» Arbuckle and Mabel Normand's knack for talent - crispra.substack.com/p/a-great-wa...
A great way to have fun and get paid for it
Roscoe «Fatty» Arbuckle and Mabel Normand's knack for talent
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September 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
A great way to have fun and get paid for it
Roscoe «Fatty» Arbuckle and Mabel Normand's knack for talent - crispra.substack.com/p/a-great-wa...
Roscoe «Fatty» Arbuckle and Mabel Normand's knack for talent - crispra.substack.com/p/a-great-wa...
Fritz Lang during the shooting of Metropolis, 1926. (Collection de la Cinemathèque française).
September 24, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Fritz Lang during the shooting of Metropolis, 1926. (Collection de la Cinemathèque française).
All the screens in the universe are awaiting you -
Abel Gance's battle cry and the first day of filming «Napoléon»: crispra.substack.com/p/all-the-sc...
Abel Gance's battle cry and the first day of filming «Napoléon»: crispra.substack.com/p/all-the-sc...
All the screens in the Universe are awaiting you
Abel Gance's battle cry and the first day of filming «Napoléon»
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September 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
All the screens in the universe are awaiting you -
Abel Gance's battle cry and the first day of filming «Napoléon»: crispra.substack.com/p/all-the-sc...
Abel Gance's battle cry and the first day of filming «Napoléon»: crispra.substack.com/p/all-the-sc...
A sick actress, a boa-constrictor and a dress that wouldn’t fit -
Just another day in the production office (1914): crispra.substack.com/p/a-sick-act...
Just another day in the production office (1914): crispra.substack.com/p/a-sick-act...
September 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
A sick actress, a boa-constrictor and a dress that wouldn’t fit -
Just another day in the production office (1914): crispra.substack.com/p/a-sick-act...
Just another day in the production office (1914): crispra.substack.com/p/a-sick-act...
A very proper, soft-spoken young woman - Anne Bauchens, the DeMille brothers and the art of cutting pictures: crispra.substack.com/p/a-very-pro...
A very proper, soft-spoken young woman
Anne Bauchens, the DeMille brothers and the art of cutting pictures
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September 3, 2025 at 9:43 AM
A very proper, soft-spoken young woman - Anne Bauchens, the DeMille brothers and the art of cutting pictures: crispra.substack.com/p/a-very-pro...
I knew Fitzgerald very well in person - David O. Selznick, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, a biography and «Gone With the Wind» crispra.substack.com/p/i-knew-fit...
I knew Fitzgerald very well in person
David O. Selznick, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, a biography and «Gone With the Wind»
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August 29, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I knew Fitzgerald very well in person - David O. Selznick, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, a biography and «Gone With the Wind» crispra.substack.com/p/i-knew-fit...
The Literary Secret Service: How to find a good story: crispra.substack.com/p/the-litera...
August 20, 2025 at 10:46 AM
The Literary Secret Service: How to find a good story: crispra.substack.com/p/the-litera...
No laughs, no money - Dreiser, Sennett and jokes crispra.substack.com/p/no-laughs-...
No laughs, no money
Dreiser, Sennett and jokes
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August 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
No laughs, no money - Dreiser, Sennett and jokes crispra.substack.com/p/no-laughs-...
The canny German - Carl Laemmle, Larry Cohn and «Traffic in Souls»; crispra.substack.com/p/the-canny-...
August 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The canny German - Carl Laemmle, Larry Cohn and «Traffic in Souls»; crispra.substack.com/p/the-canny-...
«If Joe Breen tells you to change a picture...»
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«If Joe Breen tells you to change a picture...»
The Catholic Chruch and the movies, 1930s
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August 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
«If Joe Breen tells you to change a picture...»
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Perhaps a little cutting - Louis B. Mayer, his family and the previews: crispra.substack.com/p/perhaps-a-...
Perhaps a little cutting
Louis B. Mayer, his family and the previews
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August 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Perhaps a little cutting - Louis B. Mayer, his family and the previews: crispra.substack.com/p/perhaps-a-...
Most sorry to have to say no - Selznick, Brown and «Gone with the Wind»: crispra.substack.com/p/most-sorry...
Most sorry to have to say no
Selznick, Brown and «Gone with the Wind»
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August 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Most sorry to have to say no - Selznick, Brown and «Gone with the Wind»: crispra.substack.com/p/most-sorry...
A parable of modern anxiety: Melodrama and early cinema crispra.substack.com/p/a-parable-...
A parable of modern anxiety
Melodrama and early cinema
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August 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
A parable of modern anxiety: Melodrama and early cinema crispra.substack.com/p/a-parable-...
The kino cannot do other than represent facts
... however uncomplimentary the facts may be, or seem. crispra.substack.com/p/the-kino-c...
... however uncomplimentary the facts may be, or seem. crispra.substack.com/p/the-kino-c...
The kino cannot do other than represent facts
... however uncomplimentary the facts may be, or seem.
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July 27, 2025 at 10:40 AM
The kino cannot do other than represent facts
... however uncomplimentary the facts may be, or seem. crispra.substack.com/p/the-kino-c...
... however uncomplimentary the facts may be, or seem. crispra.substack.com/p/the-kino-c...
«What is he, a dumbbell?» - When Samuel Goldwyn hired a Nobel prize. crispra.substack.com/p/what-is-he...
July 26, 2025 at 8:23 AM
«What is he, a dumbbell?» - When Samuel Goldwyn hired a Nobel prize. crispra.substack.com/p/what-is-he...
A criminal injustice - Darryl F. Zanuck, John Ford and Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion crispra.substack.com/p/a-criminal...
A criminal injustice
Darryl F. Zanuck, John Ford and Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion
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July 24, 2025 at 12:08 PM
A criminal injustice - Darryl F. Zanuck, John Ford and Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion crispra.substack.com/p/a-criminal...