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Review: The Temptress (1926) (2)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on May 30, 2012
The Temptress (1926) is a standard little romantic melodrama, the kind of silent film that you find on any silver screen in any town in 1926. It’s packed with super stars – directed by Fred Niblo, co-starring Antonio Moreno, Lionel Barrymore, Roy D’Arcy – and it posse read more
Film Friday Weekly Round Up (2)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on May 25, 2012
Summer is officially on in Toronto, friends and neighbors! The pools are open, the barbeques are fired, and the Cup finals are a wash (the Kings and the Rangers, puh-lease). And this if of course a perfect day for… sitting in a dark theatre or on a cozy couch and watching movies? Yes, yes it read more
And the winner of the Chaplin Modern Times Watch is… (1)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on May 25, 2012
The winner of the super amazing to Trevor Jost, better known as @tpjost on Twitter. He’s also the proud owner of the awesome Tumblog A Modern Musketeer. Trevor is passionate about silent films, often very funny, always enthusiastic and now he’ll be styling in his Chaplin watch! Say con read more
And the winner of the Chaplin Modern Times Watch is… (2)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on May 25, 2012
The winner of the super amazing to Trevor Jost, better known as @tpjost on Twitter. He’s also the proud owner of the awesome Tumblog A Modern Musketeer. Trevor is passionate about silent films, often very funny, always enthusiastic and now he’ll be styling in his Chaplin watch! Say con read more
Film Friday Weekly Round Up (4)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on May 25, 2012
Summer is officially on in Toronto, friends and neighbors! The pools are open, the barbeques are fired, and the Cup finals are a wash (the Kings and the Rangers, puh-lease). And this if of course a perfect day for… sitting in a dark theatre or on a cozy couch and watching movies? Yes, yes it read more
The Modern Times Feeding Machine Scene
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on May 23, 2012
This is my favorite scene from Modern Times. It’s the little mouth wiping arm of the feeding machine that really gets me. I guess dead pan is to be expected from a bot, but the way that it pops out to dab Charlie’s mouth no matter what mishap just occurred makes me laugh every da read more
Finite Hitchcock
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on May 21, 2012
This article is my contribution to the For the Love of Film: The Film Preservation Blogathon III. Granted, I’m two days late, but I don’t have to be two dollars short. This year’s blogathon was designed to benefit the National Film Preservation Foundation and help them get read more
Film Friday Weekly Round Up: For the Love of Film Blogathon Edition (1)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on May 18, 2012
Okay, so I’m sure most of you know about the For the Love of Film Blogathon to benefit the National Film Preservation Foundation. And I’m sure most of you know that Pretty Clever Film Gal was totally in for it! I mean totally in. And I’m sure many of you are also familiar w read more
Film Friday Weekly Round Up: For the Love of Film Blogathon Edition (2)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on May 18, 2012
Okay, so I’m sure most of you know about the For the Love of Film Blogathon to benefit the National Film Preservation Foundation. And I’m sure most of you know that Pretty Clever Film Gal was totally in for it! I mean totally in. And I’m sure many of you are also familiar w read more
And the winner of A Trip to the Moon is…
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on May 18, 2012
Here’s how it went down. I woke up, caffeinated, and put all of the entries for the A Trip to the Moon giveaway in a spread sheet. There were A LOT of them, I tell you. You guys want some Melies it seems. Then I assigned a number to each entry, went to an online random number generator read more
Miss Fatty’s Seaside Lovers (1915) (1)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on May 15, 2012
Miss Fatty’s Seaside Lovers features a lot of Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle and a little bit of Harold Lloyd. I give it four stars for that fact alone and one more for Fatty in drag. Direction: Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle Cast: harold lloydMiss Fatty's Seaside Lov read more
Miss Fatty’s Seaside Lovers (1915) (2)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on May 15, 2012
Miss Fatty’s Seaside Lovers features a lot of Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle and a little bit of Harold Lloyd. I give it four stars for that fact alone and one more for Fatty in drag. Direction: Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle Cast: harold lloydMiss Fatty's Seaside Lov read more
Review: The Testament of Judith Barton (1)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on May 14, 2012
I hated Jane Eyre. I resented every moment of my ninth grade life that was wasted on reading that book. And then I was delighted to learn that another author had written a novel about Rochester’s mad wife in the attic, Wide Sargasso Sea. Jean Rhys’ novel serves as a prequel to Jane Eyre read more
Grapevine Video May Releases (1)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on May 14, 2012
Word to yo mama, Grapevine Video just announced 4 “new” silent titles for release this month. All these titles are on sale through the end of the month, so get ‘em while they’re hot and cheap. Little Church Around the Corner (1923) Kenneth Harlan and Claire Win read more
Hand-Colored Original Clips from a Trip to the Moon (1)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on May 14, 2012
Here’s some hand-colored original clips from a Trip to the Moon. This is just a little tease of what you’ll be watching if you win A Trip to the Moon! How unbelievably gorgeous is this? a trip to the moonGeorges Mélièsonline moives read more
Review: The Testament of Judith Barton (2)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on May 14, 2012
I hated Jane Eyre. I resented every moment of my ninth grade life that was wasted on reading that book. And then I was delighted to learn that another author had written a novel about Rochester’s mad wife in the attic, Wide Sargasso Sea. Jean Rhys’ novel serves as a prequel to Jane Eyre read more
Hand-Colored Original Clips from a Trip to the Moon (2)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on May 14, 2012
Here’s some hand-colored original clips from a Trip to the Moon. This is just a little tease of what you’ll be watching if you win A Trip to the Moon! How unbelievably gorgeous is this? a trip to the moonGeorges Mélièsonline moives read more
Grapevine Video May Releases (2)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on May 14, 2012
Word to yo mama, Grapevine Video just announced 4 “new” silent titles for release this month. All these titles are on sale through the end of the month, so get ‘em while they’re hot and cheap. Little Church Around the Corner (1923) Kenneth Harlan and Claire Win read more
A Trip to the Moon in Beautiful Color (1)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on May 12, 2012
Silent films weren’t always black and white, ya know. It’s a fact that modern viewers sometimes lose sight of. Sometimes silent films were brought to glorious life by pain staking hand coloring. Each tiny little frame is a master piece. The color restoration of Georges MeliesR read more
A Trip to the Moon in Beautiful Color (2)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on May 12, 2012
Silent films weren’t always black and white, ya know. It’s a fact that modern viewers sometimes lose sight of. Sometimes silent films were brought to glorious life by pain staking hand coloring. Each tiny little frame is a master piece. The color restoration of Georges MeliesR read more