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Film Friday | Weekly Roundup (33)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jul 29, 2011
It’s Friday and it’s a long weekend (at least in Canada). Woo hoo! As the summer clock ticks down, I hope everyone is enjoying outdoor summer movie screenings and backyard BBQs. It was an exciting week in internet land and I’ve rounded up the best I found. So follow the links and read more
Today on TCM: Princess Tam Tam (1935)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jul 28, 2011
As part of the Race and Hollywood: Arab Images on Film series, TCM is airing Princess Tam Tam (1935) tonight at 8:00 pm EST. Through the prism of academic and feminist discourse, Josephine Baker equals more than the sum of her acting, dancing, and singing talents. Take a tour through some of the ac read more
Buster Keaton in a Kiddie Pool
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jul 28, 2011
What, the title doesn’t say it all? Here’s what I mean, courtesy of a post from Paradise Leased, “Buster Takes a Dip” - Well my goodness… how touching is this photo? That’s Buster (of course, who can mistake that face) in a backyard kiddie pool with his grand ch read more
Today on TCM: The Big Heat
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jul 27, 2011
TCM is airing The Big Heat today at 1 p.m. Set your DVR because this one is a keeper. In the meantime, follow the links for some thoughtful writing on this 1953 Fritz Lang classic, starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, and Lee Marvin. analysisfilm noirfritz langglenn fordgloria grahame read more
Locations in Buster Keaton’s The General, Then & Now
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jul 26, 2011
As part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s Summer of Silents event series, John Bengston delivered a talk on the locations used for The General. If it’s Buster Keaton, I’m there and this is a nifty little six minutes. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry… we read more
Pretty Clever Films is all over the interwebs!
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jul 26, 2011
Just a gentle reminder… Pretty Clever Film Gal hangs out all over the interwebs. On Twitter she often says pithy things like “Boy it’s hot” and “I feel like a cupcake.” Oh and she tweets about movies too. And over on Facebook she runs polls so that we can settle read more
Film Friday | Weekly Roundup (34)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jul 22, 2011
People, it is hot! When it’s too hot to even go to the pool, you know it’s hot. There’s not room left in the condo building pool anyway… they’re crammed shoulder to shoulder in there, hovering with the water up to their necks like crocodiles. But a sizzling summer heat read more
If I don’t get this Barbie…
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jul 21, 2011
I will die. Seriously? Who is the mad genius who designed this? I must have this. Must! alfred hitchcockbarbiethe birdstippi hedren read more
The Lost World (1925)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jul 20, 2011
One of the distinct pleasures of watching silent movies is witnessing the birth of an art form. Techniques were not established, narrative forms were not structured, there was no such thing as trope. In watching silent movies, you can see the invention of all the things we now accept as standard no read more
Film Friday | Weekly Roundup (35)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jul 15, 2011
Well here we are at the end of a very long week, at least for me. Lots of work and a very sick puppy got in the way of movie watching and blogging, but we’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming next week. Stay tuned for a review of the wonderfully weird The Lost World from 1925 and read more
Oh no, Bobby O!
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jul 14, 2011
Life has kind of been getting in the way of blogging and following along with the classic movie universe this week, so I totally missed the news that Robert Osborne is taking leave of absence from hosting duties at TCM to undergo minor surgery. I suppose it’s arguable that this is causing m read more
Errol Morris Interview at the A.V. Club
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jul 14, 2011
I’m still in total avoidance mode for Errol Morris’s latest, Tabloid. I don’t need convincing when it comes to Errol Morris and I want to go in fresh. So I’m passing along this link to a Morris interview in the A.V. Club without reading it. But I’m sure it’s fa read more
Team Keaton or Team Chaplin?
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jul 11, 2011
Forget werewolves and vampires, it’s time to stake your claim to Team Keaton or Team Chaplin! The Kitty Packard Pictorial refers us to The Girl Gatsby and her marvelous designs for the team debate t-shirts. It’s a marvelous idea and those are must have tees, if I say so. I’m not read more
Film Friday | Weekly Roundup (36)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jul 8, 2011
In my continuing quest to pass as Canadian, I’m spending the last half of this week “out in it.” That’s right, as you are reading this and enjoying the best the interwebs has to offer, I’m in an unairconditioned lodge in the middle of the woods, boiling my own drinking read more
Seven Years Bad Luck (1921)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jul 7, 2011
Thanks (again) to TCM’s “Silent Sundays” series, I watched my first Max Linder movie, Seven Years Bad Luck. Slapstick comedy typically asks us to accept the outrageous in the name of fun, but in Seven Years Bad Luck, Max Linder engineers a narrative context for the madness, asking read more
Clip from The Thief of Bagdad
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jul 6, 2011
Special effects 1924 style! As part of the July series “Race and Hollywood: Arab Images on Film,” TCM aired The Thief of Bagdad last night. I had forgotten how much I love this movie and Douglas Fairbanks. This film is pure delight, and here’s one of the more delightful moments to read more
The Scarlet Letter (1926) (1)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jul 5, 2011
After being a bit bamfoozled by The Phantom Carriage, I was excited when TCM aired another Victor SjöströmSjostrom movie, The Scarlet Letter, for “Silent Sundays.” As I was left feeling flummoxed by the praise heaped on The Phantom Carriage, I was eager to watch another Sjöström (though read more
Harold Lloyd TV Interview 1962
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jul 1, 2011
Check out this interview with Harold Lloyd from 1962. It’s posted on YouTube in 3 parts, playlist here. Related Posts: an eastern westernerharold lloydinterviewsilent film read more
Watch “The General” Online
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jul 1, 2011
There are about a million ways to see Buster Keaton’s The General, including on Blu-Ray, streaming on Netflix, and frequent showings on TCM. But, if you need some instant gratification, like right now, watch The General online on YouTube. buster keatononline moviessilent filmyoutube read more
“The Hidden Influence of Harold Lloyd on Singin’ in the Rain”
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jun 30, 2011
The other day I came across the awesome Hello, Harold Lloyd website and I’ve been poking around it ever since. It’s a wealth of riches, including this amazing piece by Thom Taylor detailing the influences and references to Lloyd’s work in the superb Singin’ in the Rain. It&# read more