https://theankler.com/p/rushfield-william-friedkin-and-what?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=15657&post_id=135803993&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email William Friedkin and What Hollywood Has Lost The legendary director would never stand for today's crisis of bland RICHARD RUSHFIELD AUG 8, 2...

Yes, it's slightly trimmed.

So following in Ed's footsteps, I joined Philip Carli's... silent watch party? and watched The Girl Without a Soul. There are times you know the plot just by the characters—Viola Dana is a pair of twins, one the golden child who is studying violin and much approved of by Father, the other a Cinderel...

Working in advertising from the earliest internet days, I quickly became aware of how hard it would be to preserve my own work (kind of important to getting more work). I have lots of websites and interactive work "preserved" on Syquest and Iomega drives-- not that either one is likely playable with...

Where did you see this, Ed? Google points to a NitrateVille thread which supposedly includes an embedded copy which does not seem to exist.

I've never seen a Roy Rogers film (apart from Son of Paleface), even though I used to have a Roy Rogers watch. Bob, where should I start?

Home video has lasted long enough to have periods, like the mesozoic era, I guess.

So what Channel Four/Thames Silents have never made it to DVD or Blu-ray? Thinking over laserdiscs I have:

Broken Blossoms, The Crowd, The Wind, Greed...

Criterion Channel has a collection of gritty 30s crime films directed by Rowland Brown—whose tendency to walk off movies and/or slug producers made his directing career a short one. It includes Quick Millions with Spencer Tracy, The Devil is a Sissy (which W.S. Van Dyke co-directed, allegedly after ...

"Chocolate cookies with white stuff inside present Lawrence Fechtenberger, Interstellar Officer Candidate."

The Times of London: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/carl-davis-composer-of-theme-for-the-world-at-war-dies-aged-86-lptxhldkr Carl Davis, composer of theme for The World at War, dies aged 86 In 1963 Carl Davis was not starving in a garret — the traditional fate of bohemian young artists, poets an...

Saw this on Facebook...

Yes, it is the new George Eastman House restoration.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53090568562_9b58cd5507_z.jpg And so we interrupt one guy with a baton for another; Mr. Calloway will return but first we pay our respects to the great silent film composer, not to mention sound film scorer and Paul McCartney collaborator, Sir Carl Davis. More her...

BBC Radio 3's program In Tune will have a tribute to him at 5 pm London time (so noon eastern, etc.)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tp0c

Got to see him just once—the very first show at my first Pordenone festival was him conducting for Lady Windemere's Fan. But his Hollywood theme is the unofficial anthem of Pordenone, played before screenings, so it's in your head pretty much continuously the whole week.

https://soundcloud.com/user-368963594/ep-101-serge-bromberg-on-laurel-hardy-year-one-josh-mills-on-ernie-in-kovacsland NitrateVille Radio Episode 101: Preserving Comedy, with Serge Bromberg on Laurel & Hardy Year One • Josh Mills on Ernie in Kovacsland Keeping the laughs coming for future generatio...

Grapevine has released Trapped by the Mormons.

Thanks to the two NitrateVille members who recently posted reviews on Apple Podcasts. Still at 4.9 (1-star-raters, if it's not the podcast for you, just go listen to something else!), so if others want to leave 5-star ratings, it will be appreciated!

I think the booklet is what lists them all.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52975345158_fae6a2cfe5_n.jpg SKY HIGH/THE BIG DIAMOND ROBBERY (1922/1929) 50/67 min. ***/*** (Released July 25, 2023) When I was a kid and read about silent films far more than I ever got to see them, two names would always define the silent cowboy—Wiliam S. Hart...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52914894463_1cdeb2065b_z.jpg Well, one reason for Cab Calloway to get a masthead is as a representative figure from Kino's Soundies: The Ultimate Collection ... ...but in fact he had a 50-year, if intermittent, career in films, from two of the most memorable Flei...

Sing and Like It (1934) has possibly the most perfect cast of 30s character players ever. Nat Pendleton is as gangster boss whose moll, Pert Kelton, dreams of returning to the stage. Instead he stumbles on an amateur performer (ZaSu Pitts) singing a drippy 1890s-style ballad about Mother; as sideki...

Well, on a similar theme to Ed watching The Day After Trinity, I saw that Strategic Air Command (1955) was leaving Criterion tonight so I decided to make it my followup to seeing Oppenheimer . It's basically remembered for two things: the glossily romantic pictures of planes in flight, great silver ...

Ha, that’s funny seeing the rare cutout laserdisc I never did buy, Steve! So—speaking of Oppenheimer—I try to see Christopher Nolan’s 70mm and Imax films in the best possible screening format, something that has gotten harder as the Navy Pier Imax theater (where I saw Interstellar) is gone. My neare...

I've been thinking about this list and one thing I realized is that by now, my list of obligatory great films is over a hundred titles. So make a top 100 list and its going to fill up with the obvious things long before I can add anything unusual and quirky. I'm doing a 30s list, how can I not inclu...

Criterion Channel had a collection of screwball comedies that covered some famous ones ( Bringing Up Baby ) but also some lesser-known ones; I'm trying to knock some of those off before the end of the month. Breakfast For Two (1937) is a typical example of second-tier screwball, because its players ...

There was a time when lists were catnip, I'd love to dive into them and mix it up. Maybe it was raising a pair of little cineastes of my own—one more than the other, admittedly—but I've kind of lost my interest in that. It bores me to talk about classics I admire but have seen enough times to not ne...

Tenet?