Has anyone heard any more about this? Condition or completeness of the print? Restored or just a print from an existing dupe negative?

I'll let you know in a month and a half...

One thing I've always thought was excellent, invisible filmmaking about Daisy Kenyon is that Crawford, as a single career woman (I think she's an illustrator or a graphic designer), has a bohemian-chic apartment full of exotic furnishings for the 40s... but also as an expression of whatever neuroses...

I've had to cast people for commercials and... it can get gross pretty quickly. A lot of people liked to work on beer commercials for that reason.. not me.

Roy Kinnear died in a horse-riding accident playing the servant to the Three Musketeers in the little-seen 1989 sequel The Return of the Musketeers; of course in this trailer all you see of him is on horseback.

Sometimes you just have to go see it, when it plays somewhere. Like we had to for most of the history of the movies.

I knew I had written something foodish about "cockaigne" and found this 2005 mention, of a book I had completely forgotten I once read: Dreaming of Cockaigne , by Herman Pleij, is another academic piece. "Cockaigne" was one name for a persistent idea in medieval peasant culture, of a land where food...

I don't think they're an accident, I think it was an artistic affectation, meant to remind you of paintings, or pictures in a book.

There are lots of old recipes for Chicken Cockaigne, implying a great feast.

https://kitchenportfolio.blog/2016/03/1 ... cockaigne/

Got mine! Hurrah!

Well, I've managed to see it twice, so it's available for screenings.

FWIW, it played Cinesation around 2010 or 2012. But yeah, not a common title.

Almost exactly a year ago I started a thread about directors you'd be interested in seeing more of. One of mine was Mario Camerini, a popular Italian director of "white telephone" films in the 30s, but as I said, no one sees prewar Italian films, and all I'd ever seen of his work was his cheesy 1950...

I went a few years ago-- great festival-- and they showed a bunch of Fox films. By the end of the weekend I understood how Fox in that pre-Zanuck era was no Warner Bros.-- they needed a Zanuck in the story department.

Does Haya Harareet or somebody dance in Ben-Hur?

1) Which Rin Tin Tin movies do you guys suggest? I noticed a recent BluRay release which has, 'Where the North Begins' (1923), as well as, 'Clash of the Wolves' (1925). For the time being, I noted these two movies. Well, the bad news is that I think that release represents 2/3 of all surviving Rin ...

The title probably won't appeal to a kid, and nobody his age knows its star (he might recognize a supporting actor, one Harpo Marx), but this is a lot of fun:

https://filmpreservationsociety.org/inv ... r-purchase

The current one, several years old, is a BPM33 and probably no longer made.

Its predecessor, not sure, as it lives with one of my sons now. But that makes two that have lasted at least 6 years, say, more like ten or 12 in one case.

I have bought two different LGs from 220, and both have been fine.

Fiery Fragments By Maggie Hennefeld on August 14, 2023 https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/fiery-fragments-silent-film-festivals/ When I go to a silent film festival, I have devilishly high expectations: I’m there for new restorations of long-lost masterpieces, virtually unseen for over a century, sna...

I watch movies but not network TV, so the most common thing for me is to say that I've just seen a movie and there was a guy in it I'd never seen who was really good, and my sister says, "Seriously, you've never watched The Big Bang Theory? He's only been the star of it for the last eight years." No...

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news/carl-davis-obituary-film-tv-composer-known-his-beloved-silent-film-scores?fbclid=IwAR0W4n6Y8bPW-AMGnP1OiuI8yMkyZXDrxWApFdPCkwCPJzyG9GP2xIzm8Zw Carl Davis obituary: film and TV composer known for his beloved silent film scores Alongside his award-winning music for film and...

I think the archives saw it as a choice between saving the films with restrictions, and seeing them get dumped in the Pacific.

Which brings me to my other story... I worked in a bookstore* when fresh out of college, and a local attorney was friends with the owner and manager and came in a lot. And occasionally would talk about his crazy aunt, who would call him up, three sheets to the wind. It took me a while before I reali...

It's not. The Serralde Ruiz score was played live with its premiere at Pordenone, and was very good and well-suited to the film. Not that there's anything wrong with a Philip Carli accompaniment, but yes, a pity that the Serralde Ruiz score won't be used.

All recent Warner Archive releases seem to come with subtitles.

Not too far off.

A couple of hardbitten postwar dramas from Warner Archive: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53047794924_2b3dedc9a7_n.jpg FLAMINGO ROAD (1949) 94 min. ***1/2 (Released March 14, 2023) If I had to name the best Warner Bros. movie of all time and I was told I couldn't name Casablanca , I'd give seri...

Indicator/Powerhouse, perhaps best known to NitrateVillains for releasing Pastor Hall, but also widely known for treating exploitation films with academic expertise, now plans a box set devoted to 1930s grand guignol master Tod Slaughter. https://www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/collections/frontpage/produ...

Watching a movie that could well be the first post-Code studio movie to depict visible pregnancy—Caged (1950), with Eleanor Parker as a young prisoner who discovers she's pregnant, and is soon seen in a capacious nightgown with a hint of a belly inside it. Hey, it's a start...

It is a terrific biography, but one that leaves me with a residual sense of guilt. Paris was, before becoming a biographer, the movie reviewer for one of the TV stations and an alt-weekly in my home town, Wichita (where Louise also ended up at one point—she was born in nearby and much smaller Cherry...