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Brooksie

Every reviewer I've read makes it quite explicit that they consider the stage play and not the book to be the film's basis, so that would be a good place to go to get an idea of what was included. From Mordaunt Hall's New York Times review there are a few more details: The screen version of "The Gre...

Brooksie

On a somewhat related note - anyone got an opinion on Baz Luhrmann's plans to shoot `The Great Gatsby' with Carey Mulligan as Daisy, Leonardo di Caprio as Gatsby, and Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway? Intriguing casting. On balance, Luhrmann is better with visuals than with emotive storytelling (`Rome...

Brooksie

Sony, the corporation that currently owns the Columbia library, has assumed the costs for “Mary of the Movies,” a 1923 comedy that is now the earliest Columbia feature known to survive. The discovery of this one is wonderful news for Buster fans - conceived by and starring his leading lady from `Th...

Brooksie

From the schedule for the 2011 Sydney Festival, which has just been released: http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/2011/All-Events/Dracula-Philip-Glass-Kronos-Quartet/ Dracula Universal Pictures’ 1931 film with original music by Philip Glass Performed by Philip Glass and Kronos Quartet David Harrington,...

Brooksie

I've seen portions of the '49 Gatsby (it was formerly posted on--ahem--a well-known video site) and wasn't overly impressed with it either. Some bizarre changes were made, including having Nick and Jordan marry and inserting a more didactic, moralistic tone towards Gatsby, probably to appease the P...

Brooksie

I agree with those who have commented that the best part of the series are the films presented after. Very interesting to finally see THE SQUAW MAN and my first look at POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL confirmed for me that Mary Miles Minter was at least as good an actor as Pickford. Oops, I went and said it....

Brooksie

Probably not so - they continued making silents in Asia well into the mid 1930s. While the West initially expected that silent and sound films may continue evolving as two different arms of the same artform, in Asia this did actually occur. The extent to which this was an artistic rather than pract...

Brooksie

The dingy little video store in your local Chinatown can be the source of unexpected gems, although the quality can be variable, as you say. If you happen to be in Asia itself, the world's your oyster (although be warned, in some places it is almost literally impossible to buy a legal copy of a DVD)...

Brooksie

It's excellent and well worth watching, but hard to track down nowadays. I seem to recall that it was on the brink of being re-released fairly recently, before some rights issue held it up. The out-takes are particularly illuminating. Apart from seeing alternate shots of familiar sequences (and lear...

Brooksie

Gagman 66 - has your avatar lost weight?

Brooksie

It looks to me like this might have been the beginning of a shot, and that the fellow on the right (and possibly the one on the left) are crew members. That would make identification pretty tough ...

Brooksie

#2279 Irene Rich in ‘The Beast’ 1927 Definitely another that would get my vote. I'm interested in the actual nature of these `playlets' - were they written for the screen, or for the stage? I have been meaning to sit down and watch the features that came with the recent release of the `The Jazz Sin...

Brooksie

#761Sessue Hayakawa in ‘The Man Who Laughed Last’ (first reel of 2 only) 1929 Hayakawa's first talking appearance? This would be a candidate. I'm always interested to make my own judgement on the stars who were supposedly deemed unsuitable for sound, especially when they went on to have perfectly d...

Brooksie

In Arbuckle and Keaton, Neibaur talks about this briefly. He says: "Actually, Arbuckle was asked to direct [ Sherlock, Jr. ], but his despondency over his failed career was too overwhelming, and his creative differences with Buster were at a level that never occurred during the filming of the Comiq...

Brooksie

More should really be made of this. If you haven't already contacted them, your first port of call would be a local heritage preservation society, for two reasons - one, they usually know who and how to lobby (very valuable when confronting a vast maze of confusing bureaucracy); secondly, they have ...

Brooksie

Based on the description and the narrative, `Forgotten Umbrella' looks like an adaptation of the 1901 film `He Forgot His Umbrella', which the Library of Congress apparently has a paper copy of. It would be difficult to ID the actors for a film that early. The narrative for that last film looks intr...

Brooksie

Do any of you know how desperately archives need money to do anything, because thanks to some of the great people elected Tuesday night, their budgets have drastically been cut and probably will be further cut. both LOC and UCLA had to have David Packard finance their new vaults/film archives, beca...

Brooksie

Well put deverett ... if I weren't on the other side of the world I'd love to take you up on that November 18 offer!

Brooksie

Lots of items in my silent film collection contain the names and addresses of the prior owners, and even a simple visit to Google Maps to see their house is so much fun, and gives much more context to the artefacts ... I discovered that the winner of the 1927 Photoplayer competition for Best Bobbed ...

Brooksie

We're an unsatisfied lot, more intent on what we don't ave than what we do. This is a very good point. Compared to even ten years ago, we are not only spoilt for choice, we are spoilt for access. There are things I barely dreamed of being able to see when I first became interested in silent film th...

Brooksie

Rodney wrote:Seen at the Stewart/Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear yesterday:

... love it!

Brooksie

According to Silent Era.com, there WAS an earlier company of the same name, at around the period that you mention - http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/companies/C/columbiaPicturesCorp-1.html . They appear to have been one of the many small independent production companies that existed for a few years in ...

Brooksie

I saw them do `Our Hospitality' some years ago - they're fantastic!

Brooksie

Now with added photos! The Pitt Street Uniting Church, set up for the opening night presentation of `For the Term of His Natural Life'. Built in 1846, it's likely that this building was constructed by exactly the sort of convicts seen in the film: http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lb1k2pzSOo1qaobn1o...

Brooksie

Thanks for the tip and the link, guys! I just snagged the MGM silents value pak, six films (five of which I haven't seen but sound great) for $65.65 including tax and (free) shipping! I only wish I had the $$ for the Garbo silents pak and Robinson pak. Already have the Chaney set coming at least. T...

Brooksie

I recently found this site as a result of earlier this year watching a lot of old movies late night/early morning on a commercial-free free-to-air TV channel here. Then some silents started being shown – including “Intolerance”, “The General”, and “Birth of a Nation”. Welcome countryslicker from a ...

Brooksie

I also had trouble with the `forbidden word' glitch when I first tried to register with the site. I only wanted to register as `Madame Mystery' - I didn't think that was too risque! Perhaps an over-sensitive filter.

(welcome, countryslicker!)

Brooksie

Let's not even start on all the virginal Marys (other than the obvious one) - Mary Miles Minter, Mary Philbin, Mary Astor, ... Some others I always get mixed up - Lois Wilson and Lois Moran (there's the F. Scott Fitzgerald one and the other one), and Mildred Davis (wife of Harold Lloyd) and Mildred ...

Brooksie

I was just thinking, if FOUR DEVILS can't be found in Russia, then it's probably realllly lost. I wonder what early sound films are apparently in the collection...oh the suspense. :shock: I think the chance of finding the higher profile lost films in archvies like these is low. Everyone knows `Lond...

Brooksie

`Mädchen in Uniform' is well worth seeing - a well-made early sound film set in a strict girl's school, about a student's romantic fixation with her (female) teacher. Given the main theme, it's remarkably unsentimental and unsalacious. The Nazis were apparently not fond of it - but allegedly less be...

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