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Calling All Cinemaniacs!: Day 23
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Mar 14, 2013
It’s cold in Syracuse, ya’ll! I discovered this as I groped my way through the still dark to a Hess gas station in a desperate bid to find coffee. Last night, even before the official start of Cinefest, Cinemaniacs from all over gathered at the Holiday Inn to say hey to one another. I&# read more
Review: Frank Capra’s Lost Horizon (1937)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Bennett O'Brian on Mar 14, 2013
How would you feel if you, through a series of extraordinary circumstances, became the prisoner of a utopian society? with all your physical and intellectual needs met as you live out your days in an opulent palace free from the daily grind of social status and higher wages? How would you react bei read more
SXSW: Top 5 Rock Movies
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Wade Sheeler on Mar 14, 2013
We’re right in the midst of the Texas’s unofficial Hipster Holiday, “SXSW’ which has grown from the little movie festival that could, to the epicenter of interactive media, movies and music that goes on for 2 weeks. Last time I focused my list on the top 5 films that were shot in and around read more
Calling All Cinemaniacs!: Day 22
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Mar 13, 2013
Calling All Cinemaniacs! got a mention today on the Toronto based movie site iheartmoviesto.com! You can check it out here. First Toronto, then the world! Now I’m off to Cinefest to stalk Cinemaniacs in their natural habitat. If you’re a cinemaniac who’s also attending Cinefest sh read more
Frankensteinia
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Mar 13, 2013
You might think a movie blog devoted solely and only to Franksentein would be somewhat limited. Ah, not so! As the always amazing Frankensteinia demonstrates, the is no shortage of Frankenstein news, images, and topics in this world. If you’ve ever wanted to dive into the deep end of Frankens read more
SXSW: Top 5 Films Made In or Around Austin
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Wade Sheeler on Mar 13, 2013
We’re right in the midst of the Texas’s unofficial Hipster Holiday, “SXSW’ which has grown from the little movie festival that could, to the epicenter of interactive media, movies and music that goes on for 2 weeks. A lot of groundbreaking films have come out of the festival, which started in read more
Review: John Ford’s The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Bennett O'Brian on Mar 12, 2013
Welcome to the exclusive and exotic Shark Island – the perfect topical destination for the southern gentleman recently convicted in the conspiracy to assassinate President Lincoln. During your stay you will have access to an open-air room secure behind the walls of Fort Jefferson: A moated co 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
Calling All Cinemaniacs!: Day 21
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Mar 12, 2013
Things are looking pretty great here on day 21 at Calling All Cinemaniacs HQ! Thanks to some generous contributions at the end of last week and over the weekend, the campaign has reached 79% of the overall goal with 11 days left to go. One final push and we’re there! I’m gearing up to h read more
The 5 Best Neo-Noirs
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Wade Sheeler on Mar 12, 2013
While we’ve accepted that the Film Noir period generally covers the 1940s – 1950s, and the 1960s cinema of Clouzot, Melville, and Truffaut paid homage to this singularly American phenomena with their own subjective take on the hard-boiled genre, a more nebulous umbrella-like term has come into vogu read more
007 Magazine
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Mar 11, 2013
If you loiter around Pretty Clever Films very much, you may have noticed that I’m kinda obsessesed with Bond, James Bond these days. So imagine my delight when I discovered 007 Magazine, the preeminent source for all this Bond. Once 007 Magazine was an honest-to-goodness dead tree affair, but read more
Watch It: Seven Chances (1925) (1)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Mar 11, 2013
Buster Keaton’s Seven Chances was released on March 11, 1925. In it, Buster plays Jimmy Shannon, a partner in a financial brokerage firm that is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. He’s presented with his grandfather’s will which leaves him seven million dollars but – ther read more
Watch It: Seven Chances (1925) (2)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Mar 11, 2013
Buster Keaton’s Seven Chances was released on March 11, 1925. In it, Buster plays Jimmy Shannon, a partner in a financial brokerage firm that is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. He’s presented with his grandfather’s will which leaves him seven million dollars but – ther read more
Watch It: The Proud Rebel (1958) (1)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Mar 10, 2013
The Proud Rebel is a 1958 western directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Alan Ladd and Oliva de Havilland. In the Proud Rebel, Alan Ladd plays John Chandler, a Confederate veteran desparate to find a doctor who can help his son speak again. When he drifts into a small town, he finds himself unfair read more
Watch It: They Made Me a Killer (1946) (1)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Mar 10, 2013
They Made Me a Killer is a 1946 B-movie directed by William C. Thomas and starring Robert Lowery and Barbara Britton. The film was made by Pine-Thomas, the B-movie unit of Paramount Pictures. They Made Me a Killer is the story Tom Durling (Lowery), a man falsely accused of a bank robbery and read more
Watch It: The Proud Rebel (1958) (2)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Mar 10, 2013
The Proud Rebel is a 1958 western directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Alan Ladd and Oliva de Havilland. In the Proud Rebel, Alan Ladd plays John Chandler, a Confederate veteran desparate to find a doctor who can help his son speak again. When he drifts into a small town, he finds himself unfair read more
Watch It: They Made Me a Killer (1946) (2)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Mar 10, 2013
They Made Me a Killer is a 1946 B-movie directed by William C. Thomas and starring Robert Lowery and Barbara Britton. The film was made by Pine-Thomas, the B-movie unit of Paramount Pictures. They Made Me a Killer is the story Tom Durling (Lowery), a man falsely accused of a bank robbery and read more
Betty Boop
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Mar 9, 2013
She was sassy, saucy, sexy and know as “Queen of the Animated Screen” – Betty Boop! Created by Max Fleischer, Betty first appeared in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop film series. She went on to be featured in coming strips and merch – oh god the merch. Somewhere in the mid-193 read more
Watch It: Betty Boop Cartoons (1)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Mar 9, 2013
Betty Boop is an international star of big and small screens. A perennial favorite, here are a few of Betty’s toons that you can watch right now! Before she was the star of her own series, Betty appeared in the Talkartoons series. She was also, um, a poodle. Here she is, still in the read more
Watch It: Tango Tangles (1914) (1)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Mar 9, 2013
Released on March 9, 1914, the Keystone comedy Tango Tangles features Charlie Chaplin, sans mustache, and Fatty Arbuckle. Charlie and Fatty have an eye on the same gal in a dance hall. Hilarity ensues. Here’s a not-so-great copy of Tango Tangles that you can watch right now! charlie chaplinf read more