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What is Clara Bow’s ‘IT’?
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Inspired by the oracular Self-Styled Siren (can sirens be oracles?) and her post on MOMA’s 10th Edition of the “To Save and Protect” screenings, I watched Clara Bow’s classic It (dir. Clarence Badger, 1927) for, I’m ashamed to say, the first time. Bow has been hopelessly neglected, not just read more
SBIFF 2015: “Second Chance” (2014) & “Confession” (2014)
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Taiwanese film number two of the festival was the frothy “Second Chance,” directed by Wen-yen Kung. Okay, maybe not frothy exactly, but definitely bubbly. “Second Chance” is (I assume) one of the only action movies about pool. Yes, that kind of pool, where you stand around read more
Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938): A Brackett-Wilder Collaboration
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A contribution to the Billy Wilder Blogathon, hosted by Once upon a screen… and Outspoken & Freckled. Brackett, reclining, and Wilder hard at work on something awesome. Ernst Lubitsch’s 1938 comedy “Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife,” starring Claudette Colbert and Gary Cooper, read more
The Hoodlum (1951) Stars “the Meanest Man in Motion Picture History”
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Dir. Max Nosseck “The Hoodlum” (1951) screened at UCSB, January 2013, with Q&A with Dir of UCLA Film & Television Archive, Jan-Christopher Horak If you’ve never seen Lawrence Tierney in his prime, you’re missing out. Described as “quite possibly the meanest man in motion picture read more
Aelita, Queen of Mars (1924): Russia in Classic Film Blogathon
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You will never get my fabulous headgear! Never! (Yuliya Solnetseva as Aelita) Well, it’s some kind of thing. As a portrait of the early Soviet state, “Aelita: Queen of Mars” (1924) is fascinating. As a film, less so. What makes it interesting is probably also what makes it not a gr read more
Go see “Snowpiercer” … if you can
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Go. Now. I had the good fortune to be in Los Angeles when Bong Joon-ho’s new film, “Snowpiercer,” opened there mid-July. So, I dragged my mom to see it at the only place it was playing on the West Side, a somewhat run-down multiplex on Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade. L read more
Hitchcock Double Vision: “Blackmail” and “North by Northwest”
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Det. Frank Webber (John Longren), Alice White (Anny Ondra), and Mr. White (Charles Paton) On Tuesday, June 18, I got to see the silent and sound versions of Hitchcock’s Blackmail (1929) back to back at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences theater on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles read more
House of Bamboo (1955): Cinemascope! Blogathon
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1) Samuel Fuller. Samuel Fuller did not mess around. His films are usually described as “in-your-face,” “pulpy,” and “crude.” They are, and they are magnificent. Fuller made films about things that mattered to him, and you can tell. He said films should start wit read more
Wheels on Meals (1984): What’s Kung Fu without Leg Warmers?
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This post is part of Forgotten Films’ 1984 Blogathon. So much 1984. So little time. The year 1984 was not awesome in a lot of ways. But it was a great year for films—check out the other 1984 Blogathon entries—and it was a big deal specifically for Hong Kong: The Sino-British Joint Declaration read more
Looking for FREE streaming films?
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Check out Open Culture’s huge listings! http://www.openculture.com/freemoviesonline Here are some of the treats* awaiting you (chosen at Random, of course): Spider Baby – A black comedy horror film, written and directed by Jack Hill. Stars Lon Chaney Jr. (1968) The Testament of Dr. Mabuse read more
Paul Morrissey’s Baron Frankenstein: The Great Villain Blogathon
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There is a lot of yelling in Paul Morrissey’s “Flesh for Frankenstein,” primarily overbred aristocrats shouting at peasants. One of the things that makes this film so special is what the rich are yelling about: zombies. And sex. If Shelley’s Victor Frankenstein was a man dri read more
Having Your Cake in Fritz Lang’s “Ministry of Fear” (1944)
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After the first couple of paragraphs, this post is pretty much nothing but “Ministry of Fear” spoilers. Ye’ve been warned. During the 30s and early 40s, Austrian-exile Fritz Lang wanted to make not just anti-fascist pictures, but anti-Nazi pictures. In the American studios where Lang beg read more
Sunday Random Weekly Roundup
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Welcome back, dear readers–all five or so of you. read more
Phantom of the Opera (1925): A Sense of Theatricality
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I have a question – what is this thing on my head? (still from kinpoisk.ru) The Bay Area’s economy may suck, but it can still be an amazing place to be if you love films (and can afford the occasional pricey event). 2015 was my first year back, after an absence of about 15 years—really, I read more
AFI Fest 2014: “A Hard Day” (South Korea) and “Run” (Côte d’Ivoire)
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My two Sunday movies at the Fest were “Run,” written and directed by Philippe Lacôte, and then “A Hard Day,” written and directed by Kim Seong-hun, both from this year. I was excited to see “Run” not only because it sounded great, but because it’s a movie fr read more
Sunday Random Roundup, August 25, 2013
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Welcome back, dear readers, to another edition of the Random Roundup. I’m super-duper excited about the first item up, so without further ado… “Be Natural” The shamefully loooong-overdue documentary about Alice Guy Blaché Alice Guy-Blaché in a film she probably directed whi read more
AFI Fest 2014: A “Fish and Cat” from Iran
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So this is the movie I took my Mom to. Mind you, that wasn’t the original plan. We planned to see “Mr. Turner,” Mike Leigh’s new film about the painter J. M. W. Turner. That was before we realized the film was 149 minutes, and we agreed we weren’t ready to commit to al read more
Sunday Random Roundup, September 15, 2013
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Not really. It turns out this post is all about Hong Kong cinema. Other interesting tidbits will appear later this week. Well, now it’s been *two* weeks since the last post. Apologies. Since I’ve actually got a day job now, I have to learn how to manage my time. And I was experiencing te read more
Why You Were Probably Wrong about Verbinski’s “Lone Ranger”
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Various critics have talked about why Gore Verbinski’s “Lone Ranger” (2013) deserved to do better, box-office-wise, than it did, about its interest in how events are turned into history and its visual delights, which are, I should think, inarguable. Thus far, I haven’t come across read more
The Heart of the Matter (1953): British Empire in Film Blogathon
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This post is my hopelessly late contribution to the excellent British Empire in Film Blogathon (thank you, crippling four-day migraine). Go check out some of the other fine entries! When you’re done reading this one, of course. George More O’Ferrall’s “The Heart of the Matter read more