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
I tried hard to meet her, but when I saw her in the street, I turned to a pillar of salt.
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.
There was Garbo coming home with her shopping from the supermarket. So we were turned into pillars of salt, ... she would have fled.
rare actresses who was able to become the person she was playing and experience the emotions that that person was having. It was incredibly painful, almost psychic and quite devastating for her.
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.