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Beauty in Black and White - the Film Noir Art of Guy Budziak
Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on Mar 25, 2013
Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in The Big Sleep
Guy Budziak is a woodcut artist whose striking high-contrast
prints evoke dense and haunting images from classic noir, proto-noir and
neo-noir films. My recent Nightmare Alley blog entry featured Guy's rendering of a tantalizing moment f read more
Beauty in Black and White - the Film Noir Art of Guy Budziak
Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on Mar 25, 2013
Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in The Big Sleep
Guy Budziak is a woodcut artist whose striking high-contrast
prints evoke dense and haunting images from classic noir, proto-noir and
neo-noir films. My recent Nightmare Alley blog entry featured Guy's rendering of a tantalizing moment f read more
Beauty in Black and White - the Film Noir Art of Guy Budziak
Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on Mar 25, 2013
Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in The Big Sleep
Guy Budziak is a woodcut artist whose striking high-contrast
prints evoke dense and haunting images from classic noir, proto-noir and
neo-noir films. My recent Nightmare Alley blog entry featured Guy's rendering of a tantalizing moment f read more
Fashion in Film: Berets
Hollywood Revue Posted by Angela on Mar 22, 2013
If you’re like me, you often find yourself watching films and seeing tons of fashion styles you would love to wear in real life. I watch movies from so many decades and from so many different genres, if I actually did copy all the styles I like, I’d have one diverse wardrobe. But if read more
List o’ the Week: The Toughest Men and Women of Film Noir
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Mar 21, 2013
Don’t mess with this tough dame. There are lots of ways to define the word “tough.” Strong and resilient. Physically hardy. Hard to cut or chew! But in the film noir realm, the “tough” description takes on a whole ‘nother meaning, giving us characters who are ruthlessly determined, read more
Film Thought: The Foundation of Everything is Drama
The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on Mar 21, 2013
I’ve always believed that drama is the foundation of all other genres, which could be interpreted to mean that everything is essentially a cross-genre piece, but essentially what lead me to this premise was thinking about how to to approach myriad genres as a writer, I think this can also appl read more
The Wildcat (1921) A Silent Film Review
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Mar 20, 2013
Pola Negri stars as Rischka, the wildcat of the title. She is the leader of a gang of bandits. Their latest victim is Alexis, a caddish military officer on his way to his new post. Rischka and Alexis embark on a mad courtship leaving chaos in their wake. Director Ernst Lubitsch creates onscreen ha read more
Screening Report: FOXY – THE COMPLETE PAM GRIER at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Mar 20, 2013
Like I needed another reason to adore Pam Grier. “I loved the old Boris Karloff films,” the actress said on Friday night before a midnight screening of SCREAM BLACULA SCREAM (1973) at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Francesca Beale Theater, part of an eleven-film retrospective of her work. read more
Silent Film Actress: Bessie Barriscale.
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on Mar 19, 2013
Bessie Barriscale (September 30, 1884 – June 30, 1965), was a vaudeville, silent film and stage actress, and a major star for producer Thomas Ince in the late 1910s.
Barriscale, cousins were actresses Edith and Mabel Taliaferro.
She began her film career in 1913, and worked for New York read more
The Idol Dancer (1920) A Silent Film Review
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Mar 18, 2013
White Almond Flower (Clarine Seymour) is a flapper-ish island girl who just can’t choose between a sickly missionary (Creighton Hale) and an atheist beach bum (Richard Barthelmess). Will WAF be “civilized” or will she be free to continue her moonlight idolatry? D.W. Griffith direc read more
The Oyster Princess (1919) A Silent Film Review
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Mar 15, 2013
Ossi’s father is the Oyster King of America and she has decided that she deserves nothing less than a European prince. Nucki is the penniless prince in question but a few cases of mistaken identity later, all plans are in shambles. Hidden amongst the the wacky hijinks is some pointed social read more
Pam Grier at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Mar 15, 2013
Actress Pam Grier appeared tonight at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Elinor Bunin Monroe Film Center. She’s still gorgeous and sassy at age 63. Foxy: the Complete Pam Grier, an 11-film retrospective, continues through Sunday. The schedule is here. read more
Fashion in Film: Saturday Night Fever
Hollywood Revue Posted by Angela on Mar 15, 2013
We’re already just two weeks away from the second (not quite annual) Fashion in Film Blogathon! If you would like to join in, just let me know. There’s still plenty of time to think of a topic if you haven’t already decided! I thought it would be fun to start the festivities a litt read more
Kim Novak: Live From the TCM Classic Film Festival (2013)
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Mar 14, 2013
She “wasn’t cut out for a Hollywood life;” those are the words of screen legend Kim Novak, who sat down for an intimate interview with TCM host Robert Osborne. Kim Novak: Live From the TCM Classic Film Festival is a fifty minute documentary, filmed last year at the fest, that read more
Lost Film Files #2: So Big, starring Colleen Moore
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Mar 13, 2013
Lovely Colleen Moore branched out as an actress… So Big (1924) Status: Presumed Lost Here is what Photoplay magazine had to say about the film and Colleen Moore’s performance: COLLEEN MOORE has tossed aside her temperamental “Flaming Youth” roles and steps before the public read more
Observations on Film Art
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Mar 12, 2013
What happens when a renowned film theorist marries a professor of film studies? They make a website on film art, of course. That’s what we have in David Bordwell’s Website on Cinema and the amazing blog component put together by he and his wife Kristin Thompson, Observations on Film Art read more
Silent Film Star: Theda Bara Pictures.
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on Mar 10, 2013
Theda Bara, made movies at a time when audiences thought that the character that the actor played, really was the way the they were real life and found herself a outcast.
She told stories of being refused service in, restaurants and when a nurse would not admit her husband into the hospital aft read more
Short Film Saturday: Der Fuehrer’s Face (1943)
The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on Mar 9, 2013
I saw this film plenty of times growing up. I think once upon a time Disney had a VHS collection of wartime shorts. This became one Disney would make sparse over years until the Disney Treasures line was launched and all the World War-Two era shorts were re-collected. Leonard Maltin typically not on read more
The Film Noir Foundation celebrates noir and suspense films.
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on Mar 8, 2013
Dial 1119(1950). A film noir. Cast: Marshall Thompson. Directed by Gerald Mayer, nephew of Louis B. Mayer.
Gunther Wyckoff, escapes from a mental institution, murder a bus driver and, then, takes six hostages in a bar.
Jane Wyman and Marlene Dietrich.
Stage Fright (1950). A read more
2013 Kansas Silent Film Festival
Outspoken and Freckled Posted by Irish Jayhawk on Mar 7, 2013
I live in the 'sunflower state' of Kansas, which has its benefits. No- not the weather or politics or an ocean view. But a rich history in silent film? Surprisingly, a resounding yes. It's the birthplace to such silent star legends as Buster Keaton, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Louise Brooks, Charles "B read more