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Top 5 Movies About Newspapers
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Feb 13, 2013
I love a fast talking dame and a bitter editor with a bottle of rye in his desk drawer. I really, really do. I also studied journalism and had a job or two at a couple of New York dailies. Imagine my disappointment. Still, I tell myself that it was just a timing issue and the classic Hollywood had read more
Review: Nanook of the North: A Story Of Life and Love In the Actual Arctic (1922)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Feb 12, 2013
It’s really difficult to categorize Robert J. Flaherty’s 1922 masterpiece Nanook of the North: A Story of Love and Life in the Actual Arctic (now more commonly known as Nanook of the North). It is routinely named and considered to be the first feature-length documentary, and genre of fi read more
11 East 14th Street
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Feb 12, 2013
11 East 14th Street is home base of a mysterious, international man of mystery named Gene Zonarich. If you have a film blog or hang around film blogs, perhaps you’ve spotted him. Much like Batman he sweeps in, sets everyone right on the facts, and poof he’s gone. Well, my pretty clever read more
My Top 5 Hitchcock Films
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Feb 12, 2013
Alfred Hitchcock is the master. Not the master of suspense or any other subcategory of mastery, but just the master. I will not support this point with evidence or reason. I will merely state it as a fact, because it is. If you disagree, then begone. Or lay it on me in the comments… I love a read more
Review: Beasts of the Southern Wild
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Oubah O. on Feb 11, 2013
Beasts of the Southern Wild is one of those films you just want to lock away for your own. It’s a kaleidoscope of vivid and complex images, of triumph and fortitude. I could hardly believe that this was director Benh Zeitlin’s first film. Everything was so effortless and giving, and the script was read more
Flappers Flickers and Silent Stanzas
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Feb 11, 2013
When you find a movie blog named Flappers Flickers and Silent Stanzas, you know you’ve found something good. Indeed, Jennifer, the brain behind this beauty, has made something very good indeed and a must read for all you flappers obsessed with the flickers. The blogs profile modestly states & read more
Top 5 Most Over Hyped Movies
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Feb 11, 2013
Here are my top-five horrendously overrated and over hyped movies, and before you read on, just know that these are entirely based on my opinion. That doesn’t mean that I’m apologizing for any of my choices, but I feel like there are some seriously overrated films that everyone loves and I just read more
Watch It: The Heart of Texas Ryan (1917) (1)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Feb 10, 2013
The Heart of Texas Ryan (1917) stars silent cowby hero Tom Mix as Jack Parker. Until he met Texas Ryan, the Eastern-bred daughter of rugged cattle king William Ryan, Jack Parker was just a straight-shooting, hard-riding cowboy. Hoping to see Texas again, Parker accepts a job on the Ryan ranch. Whil read more
Watch It: The Heart of Texas Ryan (1917) (2)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Feb 10, 2013
The Heart of Texas Ryan (1917) stars silent cowby hero Tom Mix as Jack Parker. Until he met Texas Ryan, the Eastern-bred daughter of rugged cattle king William Ryan, Jack Parker was just a straight-shooting, hard-riding cowboy. Hoping to see Texas again, Parker accepts a job on the Ryan ranch. Whil read more
Packaged Goods: Artful Animation at TIFF Bell Lightbox
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Bennett O'Brian on Feb 9, 2013
The Packaged Goods series at TIFF Bell Lightbox is a showcase of shorts from the commercial sector which, according to the festival, “explores some of the most evocative, entertaining and enlightening animated ads, music videos and short films”. Packaged Goods is a somewhat unconventional series read more
Watch It: Pandora’s Box (1929) (1)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Feb 9, 2013
Pandora’s Box (German: Die Büchse der Pandora) is a 1929 German silent melodrama film based on Frank Wedekind’s plays Erdgeist (Earth Spirit, 1895) and Die Büchse der Pandora (1904). Directed by Austrian filmmaker Georg Wilhelm Pabst, the film stars Louise Brooks, Fritz read more
Watch It: Pandora’s Box (1929) (2)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Feb 9, 2013
Pandora’s Box (German: Die Büchse der Pandora) is a 1929 German silent melodrama film based on Frank Wedekind’s plays Erdgeist (Earth Spirit, 1895) and Die Büchse der Pandora (1904). Directed by Austrian filmmaker Georg Wilhelm Pabst, the film stars Louise Brooks, Fritz read more
Review: Rusty Knife (1958)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Feb 8, 2013
Rusty Knife was the first smash for director Toshio Masuda, who would go on to become one of Japanese cinema’s major hit makers. Top Nikkatsu stars Yujiro Ishihara and Akira Kobayashi play former hoodlums trying to go straight, but when the authorities come looking for their help the pair realize read more
Silent Toronto
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Feb 8, 2013
If you’re in Toronto and you’re reading this site, you probably know all about Silent Sundays at the Revue Cinema. And if you know about Silent Sundays, you’re probably familiar with Eric Veillette. But if you’re not in Toronto, you might not realize that Eric has an amazing read more
Watch It: Felix the Cat Toons (1)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Feb 8, 2013
Forget the mouse, Felix the Cat was the original cartoon superstar. From the late 1910′s to the late 1920′s Felix ruled the reels. And why not? He’s adorable and funny and often quite surreal. Here’s a few Felix fun facts: Enough facts! Just watch Felix the Cat. Warning: You read more
10 Things About The Birth of a Nation
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Feb 8, 2013
If you’re going to love silent cinema or if you’re going to make a study of the early development of movies, you’re gonna have to butt heads with D.W. Griffith. And you’re going to have to come to some kind of truce with The Birth of a Nation. We all know the problems with t read more
Watch It: Felix the Cat Toons (2)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Feb 8, 2013
Forget the mouse, Felix the Cat was the original cartoon superstar. From the late 1910′s to the late 1920′s Felix ruled the reels. And why not? He’s adorable and funny and often quite surreal. Here’s a few Felix fun facts: Enough facts! Just watch Felix the Cat. Warning: You read more
Grand Old Movies (2)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Feb 7, 2013
Way back when PCF first launched on wordpress.com, Grand Old Movies was the first blog to notice and say hey. I can’t express how much that warm welcome and encouragement meant to me. I also can’t express how much Grand Old Movies as a site meant to me in terms of enjoyment and inspirat read more
Top 5 James Bond Films (2)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Feb 7, 2013
Autumn was very sophisticated in Toronto, what with TIFF’s mega James Bond blow out. There was the Bond Exhibit, complete with a rotating bed on which a supine gold painted lady had died and a golden typewriter! Then there as the months long, multiple screenings of all the Bond movies. And th read more
Review: Woman in the Dunes (1964)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Feb 7, 2013
Hiroshi Teshigahara’s art-house sensation Woman in the Dunes is about four things: food, water, sleep, and sex. Or rather, the movie is a parable that instructs us that life is about four things: food, water, sleep, and sex. While this is a factual statement about the content of this movie, i read more