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Lost Film Files #11: The Sea Wolf (1913)
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on May 5, 2013
The Sea Wolf (1913) Status: Missing and presumed lost In 1913, Jack London was a white hot author in 1913. Only a few years removed from his three biggest successes (White Fang, The Call of the Wild and The Sea Wolf), it was natural that film-makers would want to adapt his rugged adventures to the read more
Lost Film Files #10: Alias the Lone Wolf (1927)
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Apr 27, 2013
Alias the Lone Wolf (1927) Status: Two reels (out of the original seven) exist in the UCLA Archives on 16mm. No other prints are currently known to exist. Based on the popular Lone Wolf novels by Michael Lanyard, this was the third of five films in which the title character would be played by Bert read more
Lost Film Files #9: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928)
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Apr 26, 2013
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928) Status: Missing and presumed lost The famous 1953 film starring Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe was the second film incarnation of the 1925 Anita Loos novel. Well, actually, it was adapted from a musical version that was based on the novel but let’s not split h read more
Lost Film Files #8: Merton of the Movies(1924)
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Apr 20, 2013
Hollywood is slyly skewered by Glenn Hunter and Viola Dana. Merton of the Movies (1924) Status: Missing and presumed lost Harry Leon Wilson is not well-remembered today but he was a popular writer in the early 20th century. He wrote zany, breezy comedic novels that often involved a cripplingly ecce read more
Lost Film Files #7: The Courtship of Myles Standish
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Apr 14, 2013
Vintage ad extolling the virtues of the film. The Courtship of Myles Standish (1923) Status: Missing and presumed lost The Courtship of Myles Standish has a sad history of broken dreams behind it. Star and money man, Charles Ray, had enjoyed a successful and lucrative career under Thomas Ince. He s read more
Lost Film Files #6: Anne of Green Gables (1919)
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Apr 10, 2013
Vintage ad from Variety Magazine Anne of Green Gables (1919) Status: Missing and presumed lost Mary Miles Minter is remembered today for her relationship with William Desmond Taylor, her director, mentor and silent Hollywood’s most famous murder victim. However, in the late 1910′s, she read more
Lost Film Files #5: The Great Gatsby (1926)
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Apr 6, 2013
Trade magazine ad The Great Gatsby (1926) Status: Missing and presumed lost except for the fragments found in the film’s trailer. This is the very first film adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, filmed a mere four years after it was written. No need to make this a costume picture. The read more
Lost Film Files #4: Men of Steel, Starring Milton Sills
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Mar 28, 2013
Admit it, the poster makes you want to see it too… Men of Steel (1926) Status: Unknown Sorry, this is not a Superman movie. However, it just may be even better. Milton Sills’s character study is set in a steel mill, an angle that is heavily exploited by the First National marketing depa read more
Lost Film Files #3: Puppets, Starring Milton Sills
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Mar 27, 2013
Puppets (1926) Status: Unknown The plot concerns Nicki (Milton Sills), an violently temperamental Italian puppet master living in New York. He serves in World War One and loses his hearing due to shell-shock but it too proud to admit it. His wife (Gertrude Olmsted), believing him dead, has begun an 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
Lost Film Files #1: She’s a Sheik (1927)
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Mar 6, 2013
She’s a Sheik poster Unfortunately, many films of the silent era have been lost. This new series is going to list some of the more interesting ones. We are going to start with a comedy from the late silent era. She’s a Sheik (1927) Status: Presumed Lost Photoplay magazine had this to sa read more
Silents available in 2013 - a mix of horror, murder and lost love...
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Feb 3, 2013
Reblogged from Peter Urpeth # Music For Silent Movies #: I am very pleased to offer performances of my scores to the following silents in 2013: Vampyr (Dreyer, 1932 - 73 mins): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023649/ Menilmontant pictured (Kirsanoff, 1926 - 38 mins): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt014703 read more
BFI’s taster for silent Dickens – and lamentations over lost films
Movie Classics Posted by Judy on Dec 10, 2012
Thanks so much to everyone who has shown an interest in my Dickens in December series of postings. I’m getting the impression that quite a few people are particularly fascinated by the silent adaptations – it is amazing to realise that there were around 100 silent films of his works duri read more
Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation (1989, Eric Zala)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jul 9, 2012
Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation clearly shows all you need for rousing adventure is enthusiasm, a willful abandon for one’s physical safety and John Williams music. The film is an attempt at a shot-for-shot adaptation of the original, made by and starring children (over approximately seven read more
Reviews in a Line or Two: Two of a Kind, Lost in Austen, The Lonely Guy
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on Jun 16, 2012
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Two of a Kind (1983)
When John Travolta is playing a bank robber who invented edible sunglasses, you know you’ve got a special film on your hands. This is an… interesting watch, with a very odd premise and some very hilarious 1980s effects, landing it in the “so read more
Brunettes in a Blonde World: The Lost Diaries of Ann Dvorak and Miriam Cooper
A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on Apr 15, 2011
The long lost diaries of two of old Hollywood's most alluring brunettes have been discovered! While Miriam Cooper worked in the teens and early 20s and Ann Dvorak worked primarily in the 1930s and 40s, both seemed to have struggled against the rule of the Hollywood Blondes. Keep reading for a read more
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Feb 12, 2011
I must have seen some form of an Indiana Jones movie before I was five, because I remember being no older than six and trying to use a jump rope as a whip to swing from the tree in the yard. I realize now that the Indiana Jones trilogy has influenced me much more than normal people should be influe read more
Lost in Translation (2)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jan 5, 2011
Imagine Tokyo, blazing electronic signs all over, but so few get their messages across to someone who only speaks English. To be bombarded with so many messages, images and people you don’t understand can be crazy, scary and isolating. You feel lost. That’s exactly what’s going on with Charlotte read more
The Lost Boys (1987, Joel Schumacher)
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 11, 2009
Not being a girl, I never really got The Lost Boys. I didn’t even see it until I was in my late teens, hunting down Jeffrey Boam’s screenwriting credits. Seeing it now, it’s not just clear how much the film wastes wasted Michael Chapman’s cinematography or how Schumacher mak read more
Found at Mostly Lost Vol. 2
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
Found at Mostly Lost Vol. 2
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Earlier this year at the TCM Classic Film Festival I attended a presentation on the Mostly Lost workshop and let’s just say I was utterly fas read more