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The Sunday Nontertitle: Three Finger Salute
So, according to my calendar, one week after the vernal equinox announced the coming of Spring, we have the start of British Summertime (a contradiction in terms if I ever heard one). I never knew Spr… more →
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Carol McFadden was a highly popular mezzo-soprano
wrote 1 week ago: Gioachino Rossini (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Carol McFadden was a highly popular Spanish (Catalan) me … more →
San Francisco's 17th Annual Silent Film Festival: celebrating the silent era with 16 rare gems, at San Francisco’s historic Castro Theatre—opens this Thursday, July 12, 2012
wrote 10 months ago: Chinese director Sun Yu’s “Little Toys “(1933) screens Friday at the 17th San Francisco Silent Film … more →
First Fully Developed Lesbian Character
wrote 1 year ago: Georg Wilhelm Pabst produced the first Lesbian melodrama- Pamdora’s Box in 1929. louise Brooks … more →
Berlin Express (1948, Jacques Tourneur)
wrote 1 year ago: Berlin Express is a postwar thriller. In the late forties and early fifties, there were a number of … more →
The Sunday Nontertitle: Three Finger Salute
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wrote 2 years ago: So, according to my calendar, one week after the vernal equinox announced the coming of Spring, we h … more →
The Brasher Doubloon (Feb. 6, 1947)
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wrote 2 years ago: Ladies, I don’t know if you know this, but the cure for frigidity is George Montgomery. Let … more →
The Razor's Edge (Nov. 19, 1946)
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wrote 2 years ago: Edmund Goulding’s The Razor’s Edge, based on the best-selling 1944 novel by W. Somerset … more →
Somewhere in the Night (June 12, 1946)
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wrote 2 years ago: Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s Somewhere in the Night looks like a noir, talks like a noir, and walks … more →
A good look for him, actually
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wrote 4 years ago: Fritz Kortner goes full mongol in CHU CHIN CHOW. A lot of fascinating elements in this film, but not … more →
A Lovely Couple
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wrote 4 years ago: A lovely couple of posts, that is, by me, at The Auteurs’ Notebook. First, an Image of the Day … more →
Veidt Shadows
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wrote 4 years ago: The 1924 original version of HANDS OF ORLAC, from Robert “CALIGARI” Weine, is too classy … more →
The Legendary Brasher Doubloon (1947)
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wrote 4 years ago: “How I hate the summer winds. They come in suddenly off the Mojave Desert, and you can taste t … more →
Thugs with Ugly Mugs
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wrote 4 years ago: Every private eye’s office should come equipped with a kookalorus to throw crazy shadows on th … more →
The Monkeybitch Enigma
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wrote 4 years ago: As the early Joe Mankiewicz noir SOMEWHERE IN THE NIGHT unfolded, I started praying it would keep up … more →
Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora's Box)
wrote 5 years ago: The Louise Brooks silent classic. … more →
Pandora's Box (1929, Georg Wilhelm Pabst)
wrote 5 years ago: I think there’s one bad shot in Pandora’s Box. Maybe not even bad. It’s one of the … more →
The Razor's Edge (1946, Edmund Goulding)
wrote 7 years ago: While home video did wonders for increasing film appreciation, I have to wonder if MGM’s embracing o … more →
