Abel Gance: The Charm of Dynamite剧情介绍

A 1968 entry in the BBC's venerable 'Omnibus' series, wherein film historian/collector/director/impresario and cheerleader without portfolio Kevin Brownlow asks the Musical question, Why has Abel Gance, this relentlessly inventive film artist of almost occult formal gift, been so comprehensively forgotten? It is a question, admittedly, more pressing in 1968 (when Gance really was languishing in cinephilic obscurity) than in 2011, when a handful of his masterpieces . . . with no small thanks to the prodigious labors of Kevin Brownlow . . . are readily available to those who would seek them out, but that doesn't make Brownlow's decades old quest any less compelling.