Rien que les heures

1926 film

  • 1926 (1926)
Running time
45 min.CountryFranceLanguagesSilent film
French intertitles

Rien que les heures (English: Nothing But Time or Nothing But the Hours) is a 1926 experimental silent film by Brazilian director Alberto Cavalcanti showing the life of Paris through one day in 45 minutes.[1][2][3]

Other noted examples of the city-symphony genre include Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand's Manhatta (1921), Walter Ruttmann's Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (1927), Andre Sauvage's Etudes sur Paris (1928), and Dziga Vertov's Man With a Movie Camera (1929).[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Rien que les Heures (1926)". BFI. Archived from the original on 11 August 2016.
  2. ^ "Rien Que Les Heures (1926) - Alberto Cavalcanti | Cast and Crew". AllMovie.
  3. ^ "Rien Que Les Heures (Nothing But the Hours) (France, 1926) | UC Berkeley Library". www.lib.berkeley.edu.
  4. ^ "Where to begin with city symphonies". British Film Institute.

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Films directed by Alberto Cavalcanti
Feature films
  • Yvette (1928)
  • Captain Fracasse (1929)
  • The Devil's Holiday (1931)
  • Coralie and Company (1934)
  • Went the Day Well? (1942)
  • Champagne Charlie (1944)
  • Dead of Night (1945)
  • The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947)
  • They Made Me a Fugitive (1947)
  • The First Gentleman (1948)
  • For Them That Trespass (1949)
  • Song of the Sea (1952)
Short films


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