Your friend will be presenting an Alice Howell program as part of AFI's 2018 Silent Cinema Showcase. I ordered my series pass last night; is anyone else going?
― Accattony! Accattoni! AccattonΓ©! (j.lu), Friday, 19 October 2018 15:56 (five years ago) link
Right after Thanksgiving, NY MoMA will be doing ten days of Silent Comedy International:
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5021
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 October 2018 15:01 (five years ago) link
Yay Max Linder!
― Accattony! Accattoni! AccattonΓ©! (j.lu), Friday, 26 October 2018 15:49 (five years ago) link
Outstanding article on a director I've never heard of until now:
The Lost Apocalypse of Romaine Fielding - https://www.acidwest.com/lostapocalypse
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 2 November 2018 18:20 (five years ago) link
Big international comedy retro at NYC MoMA beginning Friday
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5021?locale=en
http://www.silentfilmmusic.com/category/silent-comedy-international/
Looking forward to my first Charles Puffy film.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 November 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
Will you be seeing Le petit cafΓ©? I was urging the AFI Silver programmer to keep these films in mind when planning the 2019 Silent Cinema Showcase, but he sidetracked into that recently rediscovered Oswald the Rabbit cartoon.
― I Feel Bad About My Butt (j.lu), Wednesday, 21 November 2018 18:36 (five years ago) link
I haven't had time to look up individual titles... I'd likely be seeing the whole series if it wasn't for, y'know, effing Thanksgiving.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 November 2018 18:39 (five years ago) link
Me, watching: oh hell fuckin yea here we go. pic.twitter.com/XoM1cwH1dk— πΏππππππ π°ππππ π―ππ (@NickPinkerton) November 29, 2018
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 November 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
Finally got the Griffith Biograph shorts disc (Kino) out of the library... may not have seen any of em before. Musketeers of Pig Alley still works as a crime film, and Those Awful Hats still delivers as a fantasy about bad filmgoers.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 16:24 (five years ago) link
seeing tomorrow
On Benjamin Chapin/ John M. Stahl's The Lincoln Cycle (1918), playing @FilmLinc as part of @FilmComment Selects, for @reverse_shot: https://t.co/I1M3wVJX50— πΏππππππ π°ππππ π―ππ (@NickPinkerton) February 8, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 February 2019 23:30 (five years ago) link
Enoch Arden (1911) is one of the more formally intriguing Griffith shorts... first two-reeler? (It was shown in two parts due to exhibitors refusal to run it all for one admission.)
More closeups, particularly when the departing seafarer's lips can be read telling his wife "I'll come back."
https://backtothepastweb.wordpress.com/2017/03/05/enoch-arden-1911/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 February 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
Coeur fidèle (Epstein, 1923) is playing this weekend at the National Gallery of Art, with accompaniment by Alloy Orchestra. Is anyone else going?
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Thursday, 2 May 2019 10:10 (five years ago) link
no, but same show tnite at Lincoln Center
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 May 2019 10:58 (five years ago) link
good performance -- not sure it's a *great* film but an absorbing and stylish one
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 May 2019 04:03 (five years ago) link
A standard melodrama, told through breakneck cutting and editing. And I still haven't heard an Alloy Orchestra accompaniment I didn't like.
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Saturday, 4 May 2019 22:24 (five years ago) link
You know you're watching Laurel & Hardy's Bacon Grabbers with a specialized audience when Edgar Kennedy gets a hand on his entrance. (In other shorts, so did James Finlayson and Jean Harlow.)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 8 June 2019 23:23 (five years ago) link
nerds
― circa1916, Saturday, 8 June 2019 23:33 (five years ago) link
watched Griffith's True Heart Susie yesterday -- only Lillian Gish can convincingly pour her secrets out to her cow.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 July 2019 15:13 (four years ago) link
I'm midway through watching Intolerance right now and wow is it confusing, even more than was expected, was DW Griffith on a coke bender or something?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 10 August 2019 20:47 (four years ago) link
This is wonderful news for the silent film community. @tcm affirms its commitment to our arcane art form by appointing a leading scholar in the field, Jacqueline Stewart (@ProfJStewart), as the host of its weekly Silent Sunday Night program.https://t.co/h5lcSYgAJX— Dave Kehr (@dave_kehr) September 10, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 September 2019 19:51 (four years ago) link
Cool
― Our Borad Could Be Your Trife (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 12 September 2019 20:02 (four years ago) link
Very pleased by this development. Let's hope it's matched by programming of films outside of the rather short list of silent titles TCM keeps rotating.
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Friday, 13 September 2019 12:16 (four years ago) link
Motion Picture Classic September 1928 recently cameacross this article entitled, "Is Time Rotting Our Film Records?"by LynnFairfield, which was basically a true prophecy of the future loss of the films being made at that time. Fascinating read pic.twitter.com/QtEUwXuW0j— cyprian du faur (@Cyprian_DF) September 10, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 15 September 2019 15:07 (four years ago) link
there is a Harry Langdon fest this weekend in Fremont CA
http://nilesfilmmuseum.org/?tv=4997833899900928
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 September 2019 19:23 (four years ago) link
https://silver.afi.com/Browsing/EventsAndExperiences/EventDetails/0000000011
The 2019 AFI Silver Silent Cinema Showcase. (I've a bone to pick with the programmer over certain reruns, but I am going to order a series pass as soon as I can log in to their web page.)
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Thursday, 17 October 2019 21:50 (four years ago) link
New podcast episode! What did film SOUND like in the "silent era"? Film scholars Rick Altman and @SignalsToNoises take us on a sonic journey back in time.https://t.co/H9F67NNc6q— Phantom Power (@PhantomPod) November 1, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 November 2019 15:22 (four years ago) link
https://silver.afi.com/Browsing/Movies/Details/f-0100002740
AFI Silver has just announced that Friday's screening of The Oyster Princess is going to be free. Anyone else interested in going?
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 13:38 (four years ago) link
my friend has written an Arbuckle book
https://travsd.wordpress.com/2019/12/16/rediscovering-roscoe-a-terrific-new-book-on-the-films-of-fatty-arbuckle/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 December 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
Thompson checks in with '29
http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2019/12/26/the-ten-best-films-of-1929/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 December 2019 23:16 (four years ago) link
Ben Model streaming a silent-comedy watch party Sunday at 3pm Eastern time
https://www.silentfilmmusic.com/streaming-a-silent-film-show/
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 15 March 2020 03:49 (four years ago) link
great idea, definitely watching. ta for the tip.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 15 March 2020 08:31 (four years ago) link
bump
in 5 mins
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 15 March 2020 18:56 (four years ago) link
enjoyed that, the lofi-ness of the presentation fit with the films somehow. could do without the mouse pointer on screen though lol.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 15 March 2020 19:46 (four years ago) link
Aaaaand Maryland theaters (and restaurants) have been ordered completely closed as of 5pm today. Just as AFI was about to open its Fox Film Corporation 1915-1935 series.
― Life is a banquet and my invitation was lost in the mail (j.lu), Monday, 16 March 2020 16:02 (four years ago) link
also sunk: the MoMA Edison/Biograph series
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 March 2020 16:19 (four years ago) link
first 'official' show this Sunday w/ three shorts; they will rerun the Hank Mann vehicle
https://www.silentfilmmusic.com/watch-party-01/
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 21 March 2020 06:01 (four years ago) link
Watched Ford's Four Sons las night, a rather sprawling WWI narrative for a 96-minute film. His last silent? Certainly shows the Murnau influence, and the strength/bluntness of the actors' gestures shows perhaps why vets like him (he made silents for get accused of allowing hammy performances in the talkie era... it worked well here, and was probably hard to throw out of your toolkit.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 21 March 2020 13:44 (four years ago) link
one of the most dreamlike of films
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfmH7WyWXg8
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 March 2020 00:22 (four years ago) link
Ben Model stream begins in 3 minutes
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 March 2020 19:12 (four years ago) link
update: they've experienced a YT snafu
search on YT for "the Silent Comedy Watch Party"
now set for 3:30 pm EDT
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 March 2020 19:16 (four years ago) link
this is the new link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UE0j2WeFbo&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0zbjXxfGc3-JFxPKe3LQqGmVwT3m89K6zi6IVnIYXeUlzzTZyKyxEznGI
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 March 2020 19:35 (four years ago) link
oh, just search
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 March 2020 19:36 (four years ago) link
I've been slowly watching Haxan in installments over the past few months. Really hit the spot this morning
― rob, Sunday, 22 March 2020 19:37 (four years ago) link
this weekend's show (will be archived):
https://www.silentfilmmusic.com/watch-party-02/
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 March 2020 03:24 (four years ago) link
today's program:
https://www.silentfilmmusic.com/watch-party-5/
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 19 April 2020 13:01 (four years ago) link
An empty Paris.A world on the verge of stopping completely.No it's not today, it is 1925's sublime PARIS QUI DORT (THE CRAZY RAY) by RenΓ© Clair. With English intertitles (and French sub). It's for free, it's avalailable worldwide & it's only on Henrihttps://t.co/CZAV3LVE94 pic.twitter.com/ak0TrcdP5C— La CinΓ©mathΓ¨que (@cinemathequefr) May 5, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 18:15 (four years ago) link
Thank you, will watch this tonight (aka At 3:25).
― by the light of the burning CitroΓ«n, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 18:39 (four years ago) link
Harold Lloyd fuels his Model T with stolen heroin around 15:00 here (the short is one of his best)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1-kR7o34cA
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 31 May 2020 20:51 (four years ago) link
also little Sunshine Sammy Morrison, later of Our Gang, steals all his scenes, and no racial stereotyping
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 31 May 2020 20:53 (four years ago) link
Harold Lloyd On Heroin would be a good band name.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 31 May 2020 22:03 (four years ago) link