The Guardian (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
London Children's Film Festival , London Is it wrong that the prospect of a Tim Burton Bedtime Stories Pyjama Party is as appealing to adults as it will be to movie-loving kids? With a sweet-making workshop and screenings of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and Corpse Bride , it's just one of loads of great activities over the festival's two weekends, which also include a play-along musical session...
Inkydoodles (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Silent comedy when done well is brilliant. Just look at movies by Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. Silent comedy in cartoon form is a favourite of mine. There are a plenty of cartoonists who do wordless gags but one of my favourites is Sergio Aragones one of the long standing contributing artists to Mad Magazine. His cartoons are lively and carry his wonderful sense of humour effortlessly to the...
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974) .. Jacques Rivette Gertrud (1964) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer The Green Ray (1986) .. Eric Rohmer Chimes at Midnight (1965) .. Orson Welles Early Summer (1951) .. Yasujiro Ozu Late Spring (1949) .. Yasujiro Ozu Sans Soleil (1983) .. Chris Marker L'Atalante (1934) .. Jean Vigo The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) .. Victor Erice Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) .. Robert Bresson...
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
L'Atalante (1934) .. Jean Vigo The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) .. Victor Erice Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) .. Robert Bresson Tokyo Story (1953) .. Yasujiro Ozu Man with a Movie Camera (1929) .. Dziga Vertov La Règle du Jeu (1939) .. Jean Renoir Playtime (1967) .. Jacques Tati L'Avventura (1960) .. Michelangelo Antonioni Sunrise (1927) .. F.W. Murnau The Conformist (1970) .. Bernardo Bertolucci...
Spaghetti Gazetti (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
T his November, Light House has a packed Media Education programme featuring a broad range of screenings and discussions. From the best in short films by disabled filmmakers to the latest Terry Gilliam film The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus. Also this month there will be a chance to put your questions to the makers of the controversial hip-hop musical 1 Day, made and set in Birmingham. Visit http://www.light-house.co.uk/...
Cinema Treasures (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
DENNIS JAMES - 2009/2010 TOUR PERFORMANCES SCHEDULE Performance Booking Contact: SILENT FILM CONCERTS- PO Box 2072, Tacoma, WA 98401 / 253-376-7447 / muscur@gmail.com November 13, Blue Mouse Theatre, Tacoma, Washington 86th Anniversary screening: original opening night film THE GREEN GODDESS November 15, Palace Theatre, Marion, Ohio Yannitell Memorial silent film series: Buster Keaton in THE CAMERAMAN...
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
There’s a Sherlock Holmes fest going on this weekend at The Tainted Archive, where author-actor Gary Dobbs presents interviews, features, stories, and reviews.Some of the highlights thus far: a rundown of unlikely Holmes portrayers; Evan Lewis’ critique of Sherlock Holmes, Jr., starring Buster Keaton; a review of the 1944 Basil Rathbone-Nigel Bruce film, The Scarlet Claw; Hard Case Crime...
My Fun Zone (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The 37-year-old French artist Anne-Catherine Becker Echivard’s latest artworks were inspired by the silent movies of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton; she uses real-life smelly fish heads as her models for some photos that depict everyday life to address topics. I like her creativity to make the scenes look so real with the aid of some toys; the photos look great. Credits should be given to...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Yesterday, William Leith analysed the role of goats in literature for our Jon Ronson takeover. Today, cinema comes under the spotlight Think about the movies you watch in your local cinema: how many goats do they feature? I don't think it's stretching credulity too far to suggest that there are shockingly few. Spider-Man has an alter ego, a girlfriend and a nemesis, but does he have a pet goat? He...
look back in anger (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
sammy davis jr., actor, has 61 film credits! when i read his book, 'yes i can' i found it hard to get past a photograph of sammy as a child on the vaudeville circuit. he was so young. well, so was buster keaton when he began his climb to the top. kids! just little kids. photos: sammy/buster in 1901
look back in anger (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
144 film credits including 4 in the year of his death. buster keaton arouses so many feelings, especially joy, pity, and courage. somehow i feel this man had some pretty hard times weaving through his years of absolute brilliance. mr. deadpan himself is only actor who ever had me fall on the floor in laughter.
Travel (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
By Freddie Moon If you arrived to see film reviews skip down to read them. If you want to download these movies do some searches to find what is out there. "Downloadable Movie" or "Movies On Line" might get you a good result, if they don't, try "Full Movies Online". The Belles of St. Trinians: Humorous movie of Ronald Searle's cartoons about an entirely insane school...
On the Wine Trail in Italy (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
El sueño del Día de los Muertos “Italy is falling apart from within and they cannot even see it.” I dreamt that I awoke in my bed at 4:00 AM, as the parrots outside were screeching from the bitter wind and cold that was driving them insane. At 8:30 there would be a meeting I had to be at, and the month was finishing up disappointingly. “There is too much wine. It is...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Know your Bill Murray from your Buster Keaton? This week, Pinkos smacks his lips and delivers a tray of bone-dry comic amuse-bouches for you to sample I like my comedy the way I like my sherry and my bathroom floor – dry. In fact, the greater the understatement, the finer the blend, the deader the pan, the more eagerly I lap it up. A straight-faced, down the line, mockumentary mickey take as...
The Computers Blog (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
By Heather T Morris There are several methods presented for downloading movies. One apprehension that you must address is that you are utilizing a lawful and reliable website. Even though it is doable to get films fully for without charge, those films are normally bootleg copies and you run the hazard of breaking essential copyright and piracy laws, not to mention the reality that you are putting...
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