I was blown away even by the bad print of WHITE GOLD in Syracuse last year. I also remember THE STONE RIDER. NORTH OF 36 was a favorite of mine from Columbus. SMOULDERING FIRES was another film I think deserves to be better known. I would say that the silent that I knew nothing about that totally b...

Wow, you have 300 Blu-Rays already?? Must be a lot of contemporary films in there. We may have to rescind your Nitrateville membership card (if there was such a thing). Well, there are a fair amount of films from the past decade (including a number of off-beat titles that never seem to show up at o...

While most of my DVD-Rs off of TCM are more or less randomly arranged in stacks of mainly silent and mainly sound titles, I do have some order for all my commercially-purchased discs (about a hundred laserdiscs, about a thousand DVDs, and about 300 BluRays). My 16mm and 35mm film prints used to be ...

I like the answer John Cusack (as Rob Gordon) gives in "High Fidelity" when he is asked how he is filing his records. "Autobiographically", he says, "I have to remember that this record goes in the October 1983 pile, because I bought it to give to an ex-girlfriend, but never gave it to her, because ...

Many thanks for the great information, Jazzy! Seems that you personally feel a bit underwhelmed by the choice of films in the sets? Jim Not at all. The descriptions are not mine, I cut and pasted them from an Amazon review. As I say, I was impressed by TWO OF A KIND, and both NIGHT EDITOR and OVER-...

I just got the advance notice for a two-volume set of Bad Girls of Film Noir, apparently from Columbia. Great news! Unfortunately, the advance notice doesn't list any of the films, and doesn't mention if they are captioned. Anybody know? Jim Yes, the films are captioned. They showed "Two Of A Kind"...

Speaking of Blu-Ray, I'm thinking of ditching a fair amount of my cable service (whatever the minimum is that allows me to see TCM and Top Chef) and one alternative that's been suggested is to get a Blu-Ray player that can, apparently, stream movies in HD from NetFlix? Is this true? It seems as imp...

It powers up, and then makes a noise like it's grinding coffee until you kill the power. If they're so reliable, why are you on a first-name basis with an authorized Panasonic serviceman? :) I know you are being facetious, but I knew him long before he became a electronic guru...and before there we...

My Panasonic DVD recorder died recently at age 5. Won't even power up now. There have been many others who have had problems with these as well. I have a friend who owns a service shop that is a Panasonic authorized repair facility. He tells me that Panny DVD recorders have proven to be extremely r...

My urgency about this is greatly lessened by the fact that I've watched two Panasonic DVD recorders die inexplicable early deaths. I'm coming to the conclusion that just buying the damn discs from Warner Archive is probably cost-effective compared to spending $300 a year on a new recorder. I'm sure...

I have always loved William Perry's score for this Keaton film. I have an old video of THE GENERAL that has his music, but it seems to be nowhere on DVD. As nice as the recent DVD's have been on this title, with great picture quality and very nice scores, I miss Perry's music. The most recent DVD h...

http://www.tcm.com/festival/ When TCM launched in 1994, our goal was to create a haven for classic movie fans. Since then, we've been committed to showing the widest range of classic movies possible, celebrating the greatest stars and filmmakers of all time and treating their work with the respect i...

drednm wrote:thanks for the Maltin link..... I guess this festival hamatured into the current Santa Fe film festival.... but as I've said the focus is on new stuff

No, I am certain there is no connection whatsoever. The connection was with Telluride.

Yes we have the opera and a film festival in December which I've never been to.... We also had the film study center funded by Greer Garson at College of Santa Fe, but they went bankrupt this year.... Back in the early 1980s, the same people who do the Telluride Film Festival held a festival in San...

In a related topic I was heading out this afternoon to view the new documentary "Walt & El Grupo" until I got waylayed. Any Disney fans see this yet? Gary J. I enjoyed it, but it could've and frankly, should've been SO much better. Immediately after it was over, I started thinking about the various...

Instead they decided to dupe the 16mm print up to 35mm negative, then assemble and print the film in 35mm, then do a telecine; which took the 16mm images down an extra couple of photographic generations. David Shepard I am perplexed by this, David. I have seen 35mm blowups from 16mm at UCLA that we...

Danny Burk wrote:Looks like it's available now - it's listed as "in stock" on Amazon, release date of 13 Sep 2009.

OK, I found it now. I would be extremely wary of this DVD. With no producer listed and no reviews...it most likely is someone's homemade DVD-R copy of the Critic's Choice video. Buyer beware.

Looks like it's available now - it's listed as "in stock" on Amazon, release date of 13 Sep 2009. Link? I did a search on amazon and all that came up was an old VHS (unknown source) from 2002. I believe it was released at one time by Critic's Choice on VHS, which means it probably is awful quality....

Does anyone have any info regarding the upcoming release of the above movie? It's been in "Save" mode in netflix for many months now. I wish they would release more of Swanson's 20's silents on DVD. Manhandled and Stage Struck are both wonderful comedies and deserve to be seen. And by the way, if a...

louie wrote:my DIRECT SATELITE on screen guide.

Well, as far back as two months ago, when TCM printed up their Now Playing guide, "Dobie Gillis" was scheduled, so it should have been no surprise that they ran it.

louie wrote:i tivoed this on TCM and got AFFAIRS OF DOBIE GILLIS. not a fair trade! anybody else have this problem? are they rescheduling?

I am confused. My "Now Playing" guide lists Dobie Gillis and so does the TCM online guide. Where did you see "Woman I Stole" listed instead?

Strangers May Kiss is one of my favorite Norma Shearer films, but I have never seen what the one-sheet poster for this film looks like. In fact, Ive never seen any lobby cards either. Does anyone have any pics of the advertising art from this film? http://tinyurl.com/ygv2lhg http://tinyurl.com/yjx2...

Is not encouraging at all... it is not even important information. Milestones are authentic archival achievements and not commercial reprints of films. Your opinion to be sure yet a Blu Ray of a classic silent is big news to the silent community and I for one am thrilled to see it happen to Buster ...

Stan16mm wrote:A milestone - Keaton in Blu-Ray - coming soon.
This is encouraging news for the silent film community.

It's not a Milestone, Stan...it's a Kino!

(Trying to inject a little levity...)

Well, if I remember correctly, after announcing the films extensively in the pages of The 8mm/16mm Collector, Osteen claimed to have a flood in his basement and rgat he lost all three films as a result of the flood. I don't remember if he collected any money or not or if he returned any monies he r...

Whats that film she made in the 40s? It was supposed to be her big comeback picture and they'd given her all the lavish fashions possible and if I remember it was a comedy. It was released right after Pearl Harbor. Needless to say that didnt help. "Father Takes A Wife" (R-K-O) It shows up on TCM fr...

deverett wrote:I have to clear out some room (and downsize parts of my life) the first thing to go will be my dvd collection. Here is a list of close to 300 DVD's (which sadly is only the beginning)

Could you give us a status update? Are you now selling individual titles or did someone spring for the whole lot?

KING OF THE B's - who was the author and is it still available? McCarthy, Todd, and Charles Flynn, eds. (1975). Kings of the Bs: Working Within the Hollywood System—An Anthology of Film History and Criticism (New York: E.P. Dutton). ISBN 0-525-47378-5 Another good one is the one by Don Miller: http...

I think the last is what really distinguishes what's a B and what's a quick/cheap programmer - where it played and if it started out on the bottom half of a double bill. If nothing else, looking at the distribution history allows us to see what the *studios* thought of these film. Were double bills...

All of that aside, one clear-cut B that really shines in my opinion is The End of the Trail (1932), a Columbia western starring Tim McCoy and Wheeler Oakman, a surprisingly sensitive drama of Indians and cavalrymen. It's the best B western I've ever seen, and it has more meat on its bones than a lo...