some eccentric private collector is sitting on this and will never (in his lifetime) allow it to be Kickstarted, commercially released or downloaded for free.

Unfortunately, that about sums it up. I believe this was screened in London in 2017. But yes it's in a private collection.

Alias Jimmy Valentine (1928) is famous for being MGM's first foray into talkies (goat-glanded the last two reels) and for being lost. While the complete film is, so far, lost, a 9.5mm 40-minute cut-down exists and I've been privileged to see it. As for the Vitaphone soundtrack, I believe a few bits...

Reds (1981) is a sprawling and lush romantic drama staring Warren Beatty as the revolutionary John Reed. Beatty also produced, directed and co-wrote the film. At 195 minutes, it thankfully has an intermission, and the old DVD I have is on two disks. Also starring is Diane Keaton as Louise Bryant, a...

Guess I'm batty. I'm in.

Hasn't worked all week... I keep getting a BAD GATEWAY message.

The Birdcage (1996) seems more timely than ever, what with current political nonsense making drag shows the epicenter of evil. Based on the French farce La Cage aux Folles (1978) ... the highest-grossing foreign language film in the US at the time ... the American version seems to lose that giddy s...

Sort of disappointing that the audience was laughing during the clip. When McLaren returned to acting in the 30s she would have been a contemporary of Kitty Carlisle. Too bad they couldn't have shown a scene from something less theatrical, like Shoes. Hearts and Flowers definitely did not help. I s...

Sort of disappointing that the audience was laughing during the clip. When McLaren returned to acting in the 30s she would have been a contemporary of Kitty Carlisle.

Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976) is a semi-autobiographical film by Paul Mazursky about a young man in 1953 who makes the momentous move from Brooklyn to Greenwich Village to escape his domineering mother and to become an actor. Lenny Baker stars as Larry Lipinsky and we follow him and his circl...

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The online selection appears to be up on the site now.

http://www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/en/ ... scription/

Looking forward to it. Will buy my pass tonight.

Matthew

Circe is certainly the star event.

Got my subscription in again this year. Always happy to support this great event.

Richard E. Grant turns in a great performance in The Lesson (2023) as a egomaniacal writer who hires a tutor for his son so he can get into a top college at Oxford. There's also a rather distant wife in the background, and the tutor enters a bizarre and remote world where the only other person on th...

House of Dark Shadows (1970) is a film version of the popular TV show and stars Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins the vampire. Cheesy in every way, this one has Barnabas locked up in the ruins of a Maine mansion but he's unlocked by a dumb caretaker (John Karlen) who thinks he's found treasure. Oop...

Fabulous!

Thanks so much for sharing this important fragment.

On Quality Street (1927) the principal occupation is gossip. Doctor Conrad Nagel is courting Marion Davies. But Napoleon is threatening, and so Nagel marches off to war. When he returns, he finds Miss Davies and her sister, Helen Jerome Eddy, running a school, and Miss Davies feels like an old maid...

Vogues of 1938 (1937) stars Warner Baxter and Joan Bennett is a very long (110 minutes) mish-mash of fashion shows, musicals numbers and a slim plot about a bad marriage and industrial spying in a fashion house. Filmed in color (now a tad washed out), Max Factor created a new line of make-up specif...

Jules (2023) is an offbeat little film about a lonely old man (Ben Kinglsey) in smalltown New Jersey who may be on the edge of dementia. One night a flying saucer crashes in his back yard and he finds an alien. Eventually two old women in town stumble on his secret and they all become friends. One ...

Several have already discussed The Steel Trap (1952) but I only now got around to watching it. Joseph Cotten plays a bank officer in Los Angeles who lives life by the book. It's 1952 and America is settling into its placid 1950s suburban phase. Cotten has a good job, a nice car (looks like a 1950 Fo...

From review I found, it was well received. It may or may not have been a hit of itself, but it returned Charles Ray to being a hit and he continued as a box office star for the rest of the silent era with hits like with films like Paris, Nobody's Widow, The Fire Brigade and The Garden of Eden. (supp...

A Simple Favor (2018) is a twisty thriller about a wimpy woman who is befriended by a bizarre wealthy woman whose kid goes to the same school and the wimp's son. Soon the bizarre woman disappears and leaves her kid behind. When she turns up dead, things start getting very odd. The wimpy woman (Anna...

Dynamite Smith (1924) is the latest lost film to be discovered. This showed up on a YT channel by Christopher Bird. Notes say that it was scanned by David Glass with translation from the Dutch (no EYE logo) by Rob Koeling and from the collection of the late David Wyatt. Charles Ray stars as Gladsto...

Anjelica Huston produced, directed and stars in Agnes Browne (1999) a comedy-drama based on a story by Brendan O'Carroll. She plays a feisty Irish widow in 1967 Dublin who has to deal with her brood of kids as well as a local loan shark and the illness of her best friend. After her husband drops dea...

This is certainly not the first time I've seen an American silent, sourced from a foreign print, with one or more acts of violence excised, even if the deletion leaves the narrative in a state of confusion. Yup. The Russian print of The Valley of the Giants deletes a few scenes that deal with the m...

Maybe bars allow food brought in ... but restaurants most likely don't. Small point but it's never even considered in this one.

Don't watch Sitting in Bars with Cake (2023) for Bette Midler cuz she ain't in it. Running an agonizing 120 minutes, Midler is on screen for maybe 5 minutes. Film centers on two young women roommates (actresses I never heard of) who live in LA and work at a music publishing company where they work f...

Seems to be fixed... they got hacked.

Maybe it's just a glitch.... but as of this morning IMDb lists no acting credits beyond the "known for" section https://i.postimg.cc/5t8GhDWv/Screenshot-2023-09-08-at-08-28-42-Warren-Beatty-Actor-Producer-Writer.png But the credit lists are available on IMdb Pro..... so another function from IMDb Am...

That's an amazing compilation of information. I had seen it before but lost the link. Thanks!

SAME OLD THING. BEEN THERE DONE THAT. SEEN IT ALREADY. IT'S ALREADY BEEN ON TCM HOW MANY TIMES? TCM isn't trying to persuade you to watch, it's trying to persuade mainstream consumers to watch. I'd bet that the average Netflix customer never heard of any of those films, perhaps apart from Diner. Ye...

We will see what the new curation “team” of Scorsese, Spielberg, Anderson, De Luca, and Abdy come up with when they’re not busy with day jobs producing movies. PTA has selected five films airing this month that he considers recommended viewing: His Kind Of Woman (1951) Night Ambush (1957) Diner (19...