A Lesson from Seven Chances: video essay
Channel: benwoodiwiss
Date: 2023-09-07

My 5th video essay. This is a video essay about an ongoing series of revelations I experienced while and since watching Seven Chances. All clips are used under fair use/criticism.

Film clips from:
Seven Chances (Buster Keaton, 1925)
Pandora's Box (G. W. Pabst, 1929)
Sherlock Junior (Buster Keaton, 1924)
Children of Pleasure (Harry Beaumont, 1930)
Double Whoopee (Lewis R. Foster, 1929)
Fishing for Goldfish (Lumiere Brothers, 1895)
Flaming Youth (John Francis Dillon, 1923)
Long Pants (Frank Capra, 1927)
Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953)
Stalag 17 (Billy Wilder, 1953)
The Freshman (Fred C. Newmeyer & Francis Taylor, 1925)
Wine of Youth (King Vidor, 1924)
Workers Leaving the Factory (Lumiere Brothers, 1895)
Scenes From a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman, 1973)
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966)
Duplicity (Tony Gilroy, 2009)
Fantomas (Louis Feuillade, 1913)
Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (Des McAnuff, 2000)
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt, 2008)
The Wizard of Oz (Larry Semon, 1925)
American Psycho (Mary Harron, 1999)
The Cabbage Patch Fairy (Alice Guy Blache, 1896)
Clue (Jonathan Lynn, 1985)
Electrocuting an Elephant (Thomas Edison, 1895)
Frankenstein (J. Searle Dawley, 1910)
It's the Old Army Game (Edward Sutherland, 1926)
Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade, 1915)
Mabel at the Wheel (Mabel Norman & Mack Sennett, 1914)
Menilmontant (Dimitri Kirsanoff, 1926)
Trouble (Herman C. Raymaker,1920)
Amadeus (Milos Forman, 1984)
Chicago (Rob Marshall, 2003)
Death Becomes Her (Robert Zemeckis, 1992)
A Girl in Every Port (Howard Hughes, 1928)
Husbands (John Cassavetes, 1970)
The Hustler (Robert Rossen, 1961)
Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes, 1974)
Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984)
Places in the Heart (Robert Benton, 1984)
Possession (Andrzej Zulawski, 1981)
Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen, 1952)
Something Wild (Jonathan Demme, 1986)
A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan, 1952)
The Chaperone (Michael Engler, 2018)
Vivre sa Vie (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
As in a Looking Glass (D. W. Griffith, 1911)
The Blacksmith (Thomas Edison, 1896)
The Snowball Fight (Lumiere Brothers, 1897)
The Arrival of a Train (Lumiere Brothers, 1897)
The Gardener (Lumiere Brotehrs, 1898)
Cape Fear (Martin Scorsese, 1991)
Faces (John Cassavetes, 1968)
The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann, 2013)
The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (Lev Kuleshov, 1924)
Sons, Mothers, and a General (Laslo Benedek, 1955)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (Blake Edwards, 1976)
The Little Rascals (Penelope Spheeris, 1994)
The Twilight Zone: The Movie (Joe Dante & George Miller & John Landis & Steven Spielberg, 1983)
Venom: Let There Be Carnage (Andy Serkis, 2021)
Mr Bean's Holiday (Steve Bendelack, 2007)
The American Venus (Frank Tuttle, 1926)
Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1943)
Bodysnatchers (Abel Ferrara, 1993)
Prix de Beaute (Augusto Genina, 1930)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992)
Variete (E. A. Dupont, 1925)
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart, 1971)

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