Kristin Thompson's best of 1927
http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2017/12/27/the-ten-best-films-of-1927/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 December 2017 15:08 (six years ago) link
att Londoners, 10-11 March
https://us16.campaign-archive.com/?u=09e702562c5a537dc524bded5&id=e5b23c015b
http://www.kenningtonbioscope.com/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 February 2018 07:17 (six years ago) link
A hell of a program! If you have any interest in silent comedy, do not miss "Seven Years Bad Luck" or "Battle of the Century." There's nothing quite like a good comedy as seen with an appreciative audience.
― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Saturday, 10 February 2018 13:01 (six years ago) link
some nice 110-year-old animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu-1t9sId5I
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 22 February 2018 04:27 (six years ago) link
oh wow, thanks for the heads-up! And Kevin Brownlow will be there.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 22 February 2018 12:18 (six years ago) link
Steven Spielberg came into my curator/librarian friend's workplace the other day to watch something, and they had a chat about silent comedy. :o
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 February 2018 21:23 (six years ago) link
Only got to catch one session of that festival mentioned above. As a silent cinema neophyte I was particularly impressed by the previously unknown to me Lupino Lane!
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 11 March 2018 23:10 (six years ago) link
The Holy Mountain (Arnold Fanck) - I loved this. The Skiing, dancing, views of the moutains, the dream images and even Leni Riefenstahl. She's an unusual leading actress, her posture is often bent over and I've never seen anyone quite like her. Eureka disc came with documentary The Wonderful Horrible life Of Leni Riefenstahl (3 hours long) which is great too. Kind of incredible to see her filming underwater at 90 and stroking the backs of stingrays. Really want to see Blue Light, Tiefland and maybe Olympia. What could have been if she hadn't got involved with Nazis.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 18 March 2018 15:49 (six years ago) link
anyone been to the SF Silent Fest?
https://prod3.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/list.aspx?epguid=7ecd8d33-d7d0-46b0-a62a-af16bcbe6fc6&
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 March 2018 18:06 (six years ago) link
Going to see Pandora's Box tomorrow, which I've never seen. Any good?
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 20 July 2018 18:23 (five years ago) link
amazing acting by louise brooks, imo the best screen performance of the era
― adam the (abanana), Friday, 20 July 2018 19:00 (five years ago) link
yes
btw:
https://www.kinolorber.com/film/pioneers-first-women-filmmakers
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 July 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link
Morbs is my favourite critic tbh
― No angel came (Ross), Friday, 20 July 2018 19:24 (five years ago) link
Brooks looks all kinds of chic in the pics I've seen.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 20 July 2018 20:05 (five years ago) link
thank you Ross, but i really am not one
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 July 2018 20:07 (five years ago) link
That was really good! And surprisingly busy. The ‘dad’ villain was really good, though the heavy villain reminded me of bill ponderosa from always sunny...
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 21 July 2018 16:14 (five years ago) link
The whole film relies on Louise Brooks though - if she wasn't as charismtic/photogenic etc. I'm not sure it would have worked. A lot of gay women at the showing too - I guess the countess is a notable gay figure?
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 21 July 2018 20:33 (five years ago) link
The interview with Brooks in The Parades Gobe By is very good.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Sunday, 22 July 2018 10:55 (five years ago) link
The movie that made Mary Pickford a star, The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917) is one of the more visually inventive silents I've seen. The character design in the fantasy sequences is quite remarkable, and the entire film (despite some expected sap) is very playful and fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd6yRluZW7I
― Engles in the Outfield (cryptosicko), Saturday, 15 September 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link
my friend wrote Slapstick Divas
https://silentlondon.co.uk/2018/10/15/sisters-in-slapstick-two-books-on-silent-comediennes/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 October 2018 15:29 (five years ago) link
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! Accattoné! (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! Accattoné! (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 café? 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— 𝕿𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖊 𝕰𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖞 𝕯𝖆𝖞 (@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— 𝕿𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖊 𝕰𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖞 𝕯𝖆𝖞 (@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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four years ago) link
nerds
― circa1916, Saturday, 8 June 2019 23:33 (four 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