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Voidsville Follies

Works by Stacia Napierkowska (5)

Une nuit agitee

Max Linder (director/lead/writer)
Stacia Napierkowska (lead)
Jane Renouardt (lead)
Pathé (production)

Language: Silent, released in Mar 1911
Minutes: 7

On his wedding night, Max excites his bride. A refinement of the gag in the 1896 Méliès film "A Terrible Night (Une nuit terrible)".

Featured elements:

: comedy

Bread for the Birds (Le pain des petits oiseaux)

Albert Capellani (director)
Georges Le Faure (writer)
Stacia Napierkowska (lead)
Lucien Callamand (lead)
Pathé (production)

Language: Silent, French titles, English subtitles, released in Aug 1911
Minutes: 14

A tight little work mixing comedy and melodrama, brief enough to avoid being boring or annoying, skillfully flying through 7 settings in just over 10 minutes, and featuring a bit of lovely dancing.

Featured elements:

: aging; backstage; bookends; comedy; dance; melodrama; poverty; tramp; zero to hero

Max Sets The Fashion (Max lance la mode)

Max Linder (director/lead/writer)
René Leprince (director)
Stacia Napierkowska (lead)
Jane Renouardt (lead)
Pathé (production)

Language: Silent, released in Jan 1912
Minutes: 9

When Max's shoes are ruined, he goes to his wedding in workboots.

Featured elements:

: comedy; comedy of manners; emblematic shot; farce

Love Unconquerable (Amour tenace)

Max Linder (director/lead/writer)
Stacia Napierkowska (lead)
Georges Gorby (lead)
Pathé (production)

Language: Silent, French titles, English subtitles, released in Aug 1912
Minutes: 10

Max is spurned by the father of his love, but still he persists. Note that Max briefly revisits his 1907 debut film, "The Unskillful Skater".

Featured elements:

: comedy; forbidden love; romance; slapstick; sports

Les Vampires (Serial)

Louis Feuillade (director/writer)
Manichoux (cinematographer)
Édouard Mathé (lead)
Fernand Herrmann (lead)
Frédéric Moriss (lead)
Germaine Rouer (lead)
Jean Aymé (lead)
Louise Lagrange (lead)
Louis Leubas (lead)
Marcel Lévesque (lead)
Musidora (lead)
Paula Maxa (lead)
Stacia Napierkowska (lead)
Gaumont (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Nov 1915

Les Vampires is Paris' most infamous criminal gang - a gang led by a succession of Wile E. Coyotes who are forever concocting over-ingenious fails. As a result, it's a gang that seems to make no money, that just hangs out gangster partying. Therefore, it's up to de facto leader Irma Vep to get the job done right - which earns her the title of one of Cinema's Most Badass.

Featured elements:

: action; automobile; backstage; beheading; chase; comedy; comic sidekick; crime; criminal mastermind; cross-dressing; dance; death scene; detective; femme fatale; gangs; gender-bender; heist; hypnosis; kiddie act; manipulator; metatheatre; newsroom; pimp; servitude; sidekick; train; windbag assassin

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