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Old Haunts10 comments

dcairns wrote 7 months ago: A  pre-Halloween haunted houseful in this week’s edition of The Forgotten. I’ve written … more →

Tags: film, Max Linder, abel gance, La Folie du Docteur Tube, The Forgotten, The Daily Notebook, Lucrezia Borgia

Intertitle of the Week: Subway7 comments

dcairns wrote 2 years ago: An oddly anachronistic intertitle from Max Linder’s THE THREE MUST-GET-THERES, which, as its t … more →

Tags: film, famous monsters of filmland, Max Linder, abel gance, The Lost World, Alexandre Dumas, The Three Must-Get-Theres, Bull Montana

Film Directors With Their Shirts Off #611 comments

dcairns wrote 3 years ago: Benjamin Christensen in HAXAN gives himself the ultimate directorial walk-on, knocking Hitchcock int … more →

Tags: film, David Lynch, Franz Waxman, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Cat and the Canary, A Pictorial History of Horror Movies, Denis Gifford, Max Linder, abel gance

Help!2 comments

dcairns wrote 3 years ago: Part 3 of Abel Gance’s AU SECOURS! See previous posts for parts 1 and 2. Silent comedy was nev … more →

Tags: film, Carry on Screaming, Max Linder, abel gance, psycho

Howdy!31 comments

dcairns wrote 3 years ago: One year on! Shadowplay first hit the cyber-streets on December 1st, 2007. We’ve climbed from … more →

Tags: film, Shadowplay, Max Linder, abel gance, The Incredible Shrinking Man

Intertitle of the Week: "What's this?"4 comments

dcairns wrote 3 years ago: My last post of Shadowplay Year One! Comic redundancy in Abel Gance’s AU SECOURS! (HELP!), sta … more →

Tags: film, Hitchcock, D.W. Griffith, Lindsay Anderson, Max Linder, abel gance, transformers, O Dreamland, Carnival of Souls

The (other) divine Max

dcairns wrote 3 years ago: The outstanding Max Linder in BE MY WIFE (1921). In order to impress his girlfriend and her unsympat … more →

Tags: film, Max Linder, abel gance, La Folie du Docteur Tube, be my wife

Whose fête is this anyway?

finalspin wrote 3 years ago: From the Saint-Jean-Baptiste’s Prime Minister’s statement: “Saint-Jean-Baptiste Da … more →

Tags: fedgov, Stephen Harper, Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Quebecois nation, francophones, Lawrence Cannon


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