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Jacques Tati’s Playtime (1967): The Social Art of Tativille
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(and then I got horribly sick—children are Petri dishes of contagion —so it’s only, uh, three weeks late) Anyway, check out the plethora of great posts from the Blogathon! French filmmaker Jacques Tati was only able to make six feature-length films, but each film, right from the beginning 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
The House on Trubnaya (1928): Russia in Classic Film Blogathon, Part 2
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Thanks to Movies, Silently and Flicker Alley for hosting the Blogathon! Despite what “Aelita: Queen of Mars” (1924) might have lead you to believe, Bolshevism did not destroy the Russian sense of humor. Although the “message” of “The House on Trubnaya” (1928) read more
Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom (1960): Take Me to Your Cinema!
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Part of The British Invasion Blogathon. I first saw this peculiar film about ten years ago, sometime when I was still in grad school. I can’t remember why; I must have stumbled across it at the very fine Four Star Video Heaven, which is—somewhat miraculously—still in business. Neither am I sure 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
Pre-Code Blogathon: Murder at the Vanities (1934)—Murder Is the Least of It
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The following is my contribution to the fabulous Pre-Code Blogathon, hosted by Shadows and Satin and Pre-Code.com. Even if you’ve seen some of the now-classic pre-code films, like “Night Nurse” (1931), “Freaks” (1932), or “I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang” read more
King and Country (1964): World War I Blogathon
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This post is a part of the fantastic World War I in Classic Film blogathon hosted by the always intriguing Movies Silently and Silent-ology – go read the other excellent posts! One of the great—and somewhat overlooked—films about World War I was originally made for television in Britai 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