The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
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...
Quelle Erqsome (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Last night Matthew and I attended a self-proclaimed 'magnificent evening of silent film, music and French chanson', hosted by the talented partner of a good friend of mine, and oh how it delivered. If I had enough money, I would...
JeyamArticle (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
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The National Pages Blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Steamboat Willie (1928) is an animated cartoon released on November 18, 1928. It was the Third Mickey Mouse cartoon, behind Plane Crazy and The Gallopin’ Gaucho. It was the first Disney cartoon to feature synchronized sound. Disney used Pat Powers’ Cinephone system, created by Powers using Lee De Forest’s Phonofilm system without giving De Forest [...]
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...
Walt at Random (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Full disclosure: this two-DVD, 35-short set was a gift from Mill Creek Entertainment, one of several they sent me along with a replacement disc, for free, with no request or expectation. It’s not a set I would have ordered, since I’ve already seen six of the nine sets of shorts (as Disc 1 and side [...]
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...
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Rob Hunter loves movies. He also loves working for the local "retirement home" as head geezer catcher... basically he gets a call whenever one of the elderly residents escapes wanders off in a daze from the home. These two joys come together in the form of cash money payments that he receives every week and immediately uses to buy more DVDs. This week... Up, The Merry Gentleman, Spread, and...
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
The widely praised Pixar animated feature Up is released tomorrow. Other theatrical releases include the documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell and the indie drama Evergreen. The complete series of Dawson's Creek and the animated Justice League are...
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...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) Sid Caesar once said, "One man's tragedy is another man's comedy," and this French-Belgian farce, with less than five minutes of onscreen dialogue, illustrates that truth. In a nod to pantomime masters Jacques Tati, Charlie Chaplin and...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
A duck discovers a huge speckled egg in “The Odd Egg”; readers free a frog by opening the pop-up book “Big Frog Can’t Fit In.”
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