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Lokke Heiss

Well..... I think FGM's style was off even if he saw the film. In my thread about Helen's Babies his review is mostly on target but there are weird lapses, like calling what are obviously Gypsies "Italians" ... unless that was supposed to be funny or an inside joke? He also states Clara Bow gets no...

Lokke Heiss

I would imagine Occam's Razor keeps you from that horrible fate. Unfortunately, I lost the handle to Occam's Razor, and the drugstores don't stock them anymore, so I have to go with the complicated answers. And the complicated answer for this guy is that he had a personality disorder. If he had a '...

Lokke Heiss

That's got to be another lie (from him, not from you). Where else would he have gotten it? It's all coming back to me now..I did go to at least one festival that he went to. I remember eventually reading a review of his that he did for a film that I saw. It was very strange because it was a case of...

Lokke Heiss

Gad!- Ignatius J. Reilly, and I don't mean that as a compliment (I think CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES stinks)[/quote] I wasn't there that year. Does anyone know if he was there any other year? Sorry to be repetitive, but I do remember a conversation about him, and I'm trying to remember if I was having it ...

Lokke Heiss

My question got a little buried -- does anyone remember what year(s) this guy was in Pordenone?

Lokke Heiss

Jason Liller wrote:I really felt sorry for the guy, but choosing to end one's life in a fit of attempted murder has a way of changing my outlook.

I think I talked to him in Pordenone, but it's all a blur. Do any of my fellow festival Pordenonians remember him being at any, and if he did, which in particular?

Lokke Heiss

I've quoted myself before regarding this point, but it still seems timely for this topic -- I always wondered when and why Hollywood became Hollywood, and not one of many other names, and this is part of my essay on Griffith from one of my Pordenone reviews: Historian Marc Wanamaker has spent most o...

Lokke Heiss

I have some sympathy for people who whisper to their friends at certain key points of the films: "I TOLD you he was the murderer...or who are trying to point out where a famous future star in hanging on the fence as a handsome extra. This is being very engaged with the material. I have NO sympathy w...

Lokke Heiss

Wow, his web site is now err... selective. I wonder what happened? Here is the web page of contact information the way it used to look (January 2008): http://web.archive.org/web/20080121173214/www.grapevinevideo.com/contact_information.htm Rick I e-mailed him, but no answer. If a tree in the forest...

Lokke Heiss

Sounds like you should drop a line to Jack Hardy at Grapevine, who has been slowly putting as much of Griffith at Biograph out as he can get his hands on. Dropneedle scores, but several at a time, and less than $30 a disk. Bob I googled Grapevine, but only get the option to sign up for a newsletter...

Lokke Heiss

velvety chiaroscuro

And I thought that was one of my coffee selections at my local Kaldi's.

Lokke Heiss

I looked at the menus on both Biographs discs as well, it's not there. The only DVD-like version I'm finding is a DVD-R for $30: http://www.fesfilms.com/exclusive-releases.html It's under D.W. Griffith Shorts. Rick Huh. So I have to pay 30 bucks for the film, and probably for a 'drop' music score. ...

Lokke Heiss

This collection of director D.W. Griffith's pioneering early silent shorts includes THOSE AWFUL HATS, AN UNSEEN ENEMY, THE LONEDALE OPERATOR, THE LONELY VILLA, THE NEW YORK HAT, THE MUSKETEERS OF PIG ALLEY, and THE YAQUI CUR. My original query was wrong. What I meant to say is that The Yaqui Cur is...

Lokke Heiss

Is this film available on DVD? I checked around, there is some mention of it being on Griffith's Masterworks, but I couldn't find it on the discs.

I think it's one of Griffith's strongest short films, but outside of festivals or archives, it's not the easiest to see.

Lokke Heiss

Unfortunately, I now have a conflict on Sunday for breakfast! Please meet among yourselves there if you like and get together... I may look for folks AFTER the morning show for a lunch. I'm the guy who looks like Rodney Sauer... (see the web site...) Several of us are having issues getting there ea...

Lokke Heiss

:) Great reviews. Excellent article. But you didn't say a word about the Maud Neilssen score. By all accounts singled out for high praise. I also heard that they screened a brand new 35 Millimeter print, much better quality than what TCM currently airs. And I have another score for THE MERRY WIDOW ...

Lokke Heiss

My review of the Pordenone festival is up on Silent Era. Merry Widows and Silent Sleuths Here's the link: http://www.silentera.com/articles/heissLokke/pordenone2009.html And some more shots of the festival itself. I talk about (with no real spoilers you don't see in the first ten minutes) of two fil...

Lokke Heiss

Derek B. wrote:I would enjoy meeting more folks. Sunday morning is also better for me than Saturday morning.

I hope to be there this weekend. How about a 'silent summit' on Sunday am?

Do we have a time and place?

Lokke Heiss

I'm not so sure. At the time, JAWS was regarded as something of a fluke (no pun intended), a very-well-made chiller that kind of won the lottery, box office-wise. It wasn't until a full two years later, with STAR WARS (and then CLOSE ENCOUNTERS six months later), that the industry realized that wha...

Lokke Heiss

Robert Shaw Jaws Spielberg shark Perhaps the finest moment in the film was the quietest, when Quint gravelly recalled his time aboard the USS Indianapolis, which was sunk July 30, 1945, by a Japanese torpedo in the Pacific. The survivors who hadn’t been eaten by sharks weren’t rescued until Aug. 2....

Lokke Heiss

Has anyone seen this one all the way through? I've only seen the clip on the Warner Archive site, but my curiosity may lie not so much in the film itself as in its place in Vidor's career. I know nothing about this film, but I think Vidor is one of the most interesting directors of his time, in tha...

Lokke Heiss

That said, I did keep my older Image edition with the thundering organ score, mainly because of Lokke's commentary and his tour of the film sites. Thanks. It's beyond scary to think that most of that commentary track was written more than twenty years ago. We know a lot more about the film now, and...

Lokke Heiss

. Even when we discuss Rinty on this board, a few of our colleagues chime in just to to make silly jokes. Those of us on this list who make silly jokes do it out of respect, not from snobbery. Hundreds of years from now, when most of the names we talk about will be long forgotten, people will be en...

Lokke Heiss

Didn't make that one; the late screening on Thursday tends to be a tricky one to heave away from the bar for. My money would be on Guenther making an unbilled appearance; the plot regarding a violinist would have been fairly irresistible. I remember him doing something similar with Donald Sosin (II...

Lokke Heiss

I'm finishing up my review of last year's Pordenone festival.

I think John Sweeney did a great job on Gunnar Hede's Saga, but didn't he have a violinist play with him? Anyone know who it was? Am I confusing this with another performance?

Lokke Heiss

I think you're talking about the line where Patsy says: "Hey, how about some fresh air in this thing? What do you think we are, hot house plants?" Yup, that's it. Thanks. Does anyone want to talk about 'Beanie' Walker, one of the unsung talents of the Hal Roach team? He got his training writing for...

Lokke Heiss

And don't forget Rinty's cameo appearance in WB's all-star talkie, THE SHOW OF SHOWS. Unlike some other silent stars whose voices disappointed in talkies, Rinty's bark sounded just like I imagined it did! Rinty was understandably nervous about transitioning into talkies, causing the famous rumor (d...

Lokke Heiss

Thanks Dennis, and everyone for their input. I did check out most of the sources, and here are my conclusions: Professional women detectives start to be found in print around 1880 or so, some one-shot, some more on what I'd call 'fantasy jobs' (ie woman is widow, or has perfect husband, a large fort...

Lokke Heiss

The Man From Uncle TV series made swish cuts part of their 'look.' Originally they made them by a fast pan of the camera after a shot, but it got just too cumbersome to try and match 'swishes' or something like that...actually I can see that would drive the editors crazy because they'd lose control ...

Lokke Heiss

In “the Hal Roach talkie short, Beauty and the Bus” Thelma Todd and Patsy Kelly have just won a car, and on their first ride in it with Thelma at the wheel--car already in motion, windows open, Patsy wants to open its top, saying: Say, how about some fresh air in this thing? Then Thelma sa...

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Is Griffith's The Yaqui Cur available?

Just posted -- my 2009 Pordenone review on Silent Era

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Who played Gunnar Hede's Saga?

Beauty and the Bus: What did she say?