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/
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).
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...
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...
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-...
«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...
Margaret Booth owns your negative: The editing queen of MGM crispra.substack.com/p/margaret-b...
July 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Margaret Booth owns your negative: The editing queen of MGM crispra.substack.com/p/margaret-b...
Let's watch 1914 and see: crispra.substack.com/p/lets-watch...
July 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Let's watch 1914 and see: crispra.substack.com/p/lets-watch...
Cecil & Billy: crispra.substack.com/p/cecil-and-...
July 12, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Cecil & Billy: crispra.substack.com/p/cecil-and-...
Lasky’s Hot Tamales crispra.substack.com/p/laskys-hot...
July 11, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Lasky’s Hot Tamales crispra.substack.com/p/laskys-hot...
Full-length and full-front: crispra.substack.com/p/full-lengt...
July 10, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Full-length and full-front: crispra.substack.com/p/full-lengt...
Orson and Micheál - Orson on the phone crispra.substack.com/p/orson-and-...
July 9, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Orson and Micheál - Orson on the phone crispra.substack.com/p/orson-and-...
July 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Marcel Meys, Portrait d'un chat dormant sur un coussin, autochrome 1900-1925 (src Musée français de la photographie)
July 4, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Marcel Meys, Portrait d'un chat dormant sur un coussin, autochrome 1900-1925 (src Musée français de la photographie)
«The Red Kimono» (Lang, 1925)
June 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
«The Red Kimono» (Lang, 1925)
Three man attending Valentino's funeral (August 1928) digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/coll...
June 19, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Three man attending Valentino's funeral (August 1928) digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/coll...
«Ann Murdock with Buzzer IV», autochrome by Arnold Genthe (1914).
May 7, 2025 at 4:55 AM
«Ann Murdock with Buzzer IV», autochrome by Arnold Genthe (1914).
«The Graduating Class» by Frank Eugene (1913)
April 22, 2025 at 7:25 AM
«The Graduating Class» by Frank Eugene (1913)
«Taxi Driver» (Scorsese, 1976)
April 12, 2025 at 5:28 AM
«Taxi Driver» (Scorsese, 1976)
«Bread» (Ida May Park, 1918)
March 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
«Bread» (Ida May Park, 1918)
«Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases: A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary...» (archive.org/details/in.e...)
March 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
«Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases: A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary...» (archive.org/details/in.e...)
«Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs» (Hand, 1937) // «Citizen Kane» (Welles, 1941)
March 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
«Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs» (Hand, 1937) // «Citizen Kane» (Welles, 1941)
«La Chute de la maison Usher» (Epstein, 1928)
March 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
«La Chute de la maison Usher» (Epstein, 1928)
Oh-oh... Am I severed? 😀#severance
February 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Oh-oh... Am I severed? 😀#severance
The Edge of the World (Powell, 1937)
January 19, 2025 at 11:29 PM
The Edge of the World (Powell, 1937)
Programme de tous le cinéma pariens («Cinemonde», 10 octobre 1954)
January 15, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Programme de tous le cinéma pariens («Cinemonde», 10 octobre 1954)