pferguson | October 26, 2018
Nosferatu and Westfront 1918 The 1922 German horror film Nosferatu was directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. This unauthorized version, now a masterpiece of the Expressionist film movement, was adapted from author Bram Stoker’s book Dracula (1897), a treatise on the fears and anxieties that existed within Victorian society. Murnau was a veteran of the Great […]
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Tags: Albin Grau, Avant-garde, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Expressionist Film, Film History, Florence Stoker, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, George Wilhelm Pabst, German Film, Great War Veterans, Nosferatu, Prana Film, Weimar Republic, Westfront 1918
pferguson | October 17, 2018
Two French Memorial Sites of the Great War Several years ago, in company with an English friend, we were driven to several sites of conflict and memory. From place to place there was much to absorb and all the while I felt, Would I ever be able to find my way around these places? Time […]
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Tags: Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC), Corps Expéditionnaire d'Orient, Film History, French Army, French Colonial African Troops, Gallipoli, Jacques Cordonnier, Louis Marie Cordonnier, Memorial Architecture, Notre Dame de Lorette, Ossuary, Peter Weir, The Great War for Civilization, The War to End All Wars
pferguson | October 7, 2018
As Families Do An October evening in Chilliwack. The Richardson family, mother and father, family – without the sounds of overseas. Perhaps within their chairs, cups of tea and Dundee cake. The crackle from a fireplace and as families do talking of their day. Yet within their speak, the name of one – James – […]
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Tags: 8 October 1916, Chilliwack, David Richardson, Emma Stevens, Family, Home, James Cleland Richardson, Keep the Home Fires Burning, Mary Richardson