Well, it was the only way to get Ann Sothern on TV ever since Private Secretary had gone off the air.

That is, getting her on TV in at least a phantasmagorical sense.

You are aware of the old trope, obviously! But in this case, the Grand Jury had already announced they'd investigate the case before Arbuckle was even charged. And then they reduced the DA's charge from murder to manslaughter. So no ham sandwich for you, fella. You're looking at egg salad. Doesn't ...

I really like Zoo in Budapest, just because it's like nothing else. Even more than Lubitsch/Molnar meets Cat People. Exactly. I watched it tonight and was reminded of the unusual combination of child-like wonder and darker sophistication, a little like a James Barrie story. There are elements of th...

I will see Donna her justified annoyance at the Bad Valentino Info with the Bad Info quoted here: "An ambitious District Attorney indicted Arbuckle." That really is an unique moment in American jurisprudence. DA's don't indict and never have. Grand Juries indict. At the risk of incurring the wrath ...

...is playing tonight on TCM. Sorry for not posting this earlier, but maybe for you west-coasters this might remind you. TCM rarely plays this unusual film which is sort of a combination of Shop Around the Corner meets Island of Dr. Moreau. Okay, so that's cutting it a little thick, how about Shop A...

In my everlasting attempt to find reasons topics are on, not off-topic, I thought Tangled was terrific, and in particular, a real attempt at character animation, that is, a throw-back to the Disney films of the 30s. Then later I read a report that the director had the animators take a class in Disne...

Opinions on the Christopher Caliendo score on Lucky Star, which may indeed may be my greatest guilty-secret pleasure?-(silent variety, anyway)

These things should stop being called "the ten best" and should start being called "____'s ten favorite films (at the moment)." What, and eliminate the endless bickering that inevitably results? Madness! Madness, I tell you! Implicit in my tag line 'ten best films NOT named Lawrence of Arabia' was ...

If a writer was going to spend two, three years plus, writing a biography on a person, it would be hard NOT to use that person as a Rosarch Test. The first question the author would have to ask themselves would be: why do I want to write this book-in other words what do I see in this other person th...

I don't mean to create 'dueling blogs.' Post here if you prefer. Here is my list, and follow the link for the other dicussions: "10 of my favorite films that aren't named Lawrence of Arabia": ● "The Outlaw and his Wife" (1918), d. Victor Sjöström ● "Faces of Children" (1925), d. Jacques Feyder ● "Th...

I usually try to stay away from the '10 best' of anything, but was challenged by a local writer. He did a great job in his blog, basically quoting me word-for-word, so if anything I was nervous I'd screwed up a fact here or there. For my top ten list, I stayed mostly in the Nitrateville era, but did...

"The Swedish Miserabilist Tradition"...love that.

I agree. I'm going to steal that at my first opportunity, and sneak it into my conversation: "Um, well, yes, you have the French New Wave, and the Swedish Miserablists, of course."

Of course, the ultimate challenge, the most hidden place, is the bedroom... not the public one but the hidden one you will have guessed is the secret beyond the door, the one where the real man is blocked up and tormented. The one where only she can free him to be a complete man, and to make a marr...

Then there's Sr. as the original "Bad Lieutenant" in Mystery of the Leaping Fish. There certainly were a number of silent films that were pre-Code in attitude, the most obvious being Chicago. So it doesn't sound like anyone has any inside scoop on the original version of BF...I guess one would have...

It's considered the most pre-Code of all the pre-Codes, and for the first fifty minutes, I agree. But after the suicide in her apartment, Stanwyck's character goes to Paris, and it feels like the foot is definitely off the gas. Even in the 'restored' version, the last thirty minutes or so take a lot...

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 . I hear Luhrmann was unhappy his rather lugubrious Moulin Rouge and hopes to bri...

Surely, I have not seen every version that is available. Perhaps someone could suggest one where the music more accurately expresses what is seen in this very frightening film. Thanks, Rich Wagner Rich, this topic has come up often here - you might want to check your search engines. But then again,...

sepiatone wrote:I wonder what good ole 'Gwyn Mac' would think if he were still here. Oh! he wouldn't think nothing of it, he's seen all of these films.

He'd think, while they have their moments, all of these films are not as good as their reputation says they are.

silentfilm wrote:It's been shown on the Fox Movie Channel before.

Well, I thought I covered that in my original post. Short of waiting for x number of years for them to show it again, and purchase my Fox Dish pass for the month to see it, do I have any other options?

drednm wrote:Many of us have copies.....

Uh, is this like I have to know the password?

Swordfish?

Or contact me by private message?

Any ideas on how I can see this film other than go to an archive or wait for Fox to show it again in ten years?

Alloy Orchestra performs their score for the 2010 restoration of Metropolis at 7:00 at the Hopkins Center for the Arts on the Dartmouth College campus. http://hop.dartmouth.edu/films/the-complete-metropolis-with-the-alloy-orchestra All these Metropolis screenings-what film speed, and what's the sco...

1) Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück was the best of the lot. Especially during the workers' march when the Festival had 20 singers in the pit and about fifteen around the theater stand up and sing the Internationale. A great experience for a very moving film. Those of us who have never had the chanc...

12:00 AM Viking, The (1929) Norse half-brothers vie for a throne and for the same woman. Dir: Richard Fleischer. BW-90 mins, TV-PG Look at the director and log line. Perhaps the fine folks at TCM are a might confused. Or maybe Fleischer's career lasted a lot longer than I thought, and he's doing a ...

Von's private tastes actually did tend towards that direction... but I would be cautious to link this to his artistic approach as well. I would argue the opposite: I think Von Stroheim's temperament motivated him to continually find stories about couples where one had power and the other did not-an...

Stroheim reminds me a lot of Leni Riefenstahl. Beautiful images, wonderfully shot and edited, with no real understanding of how to properly pace a movie. At the risk of being redundant, I'd like to repeat my opinion that discussions that compare Stroheim to Lean sort of miss the point. Stroheim's g...

First time I think I've seen this particular gesture in a 30's film!

Okay, I'll bite. What's the context of the shot?

And now, if you'll allow me, I must temporarily take my leave because this German Count must enjoy the exclusive aristocratic pleasures from midnight to morn. Dear Herr Graf Ferdinand Von Galitzien, In following these aristocratic pleasures, do you still follow the time-honored tradition of Droit d...

Could it have been 2002 ???? The film showed both years....Diana I think was there herself in 2004. Here are our 'dueling reviews' although it's hardly a fair fight--I gloss over the film briefly and he goes in for the kill..although we did hit some common ground, including the important point that...

Thalberg saw him do this at Universal. And then he hired him at MGM. Twice. I would have shot him. Yes, von Stroheim was a genius, but he was functionally insane as a director. When I was doing my research on Von Stroheim for my review of Merry Widow, I changed my mind. I no longer feel sorry for h...