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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

"She just goes a little mad sometimes. We all go a little mad sometimes."

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Happy 50th birthday, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho . BBC News has an article, " How Psycho changed cinema ," that's a good ...

San Francisco Silent Film Festival's 15th anniversary — July 15–18

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Speaking of Louise Brooks (and we were ), the San Francisco Silent Film Festival has announced this summer's movie line-up and look who...
Sunday, June 13, 2010

Where are the West Seattle Grouchos?

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Ah, springtime, when the Grouchos bloom. Or at least they did for three springs prior to this one. For three consecutive Aprils, 2007-20...
Wednesday, June 9, 2010

The first 15 were so good, let's go for another

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Tomorrow, Elizabeth and I will enjoy our 15th anniversary. Thought I'd show you what I got her. First, a little context: View Larg...

Lost Charlie Chaplin film discovered in Michigan antique sale

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Film historian and biographer Scott Eyman, writing in the Palm Beach Post , reports that a lost early short — with an appearance by Charlie ...
Monday, June 7, 2010

I dream of working on a production of "Hamlet" that uses this sign as its poster's central image

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Music: The Beatles, Rubber Soul (2009 remaster) Near at hand: Untidy stack of spiral-bound paper with writing notes.
Sunday, June 6, 2010

Alternate universe movies: "The Public Enemy" with Louise Brooks instead of Jean Harlow

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I do love a good Cagney movie. White Heat , Angels with Dirty Faces , Yankee Doodle Dandy .... Like Bogart or Ingrid Bergman or Cary Grant...
Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Pic pick: Tex Avery has left the building

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Monday, May 31, 2010

Talk about having an old friend for dinner...

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Elizabeth and I lived in Portland, OR before moving to Seattle. Among our oldest and best friends there are David Delamare and Wendy Ice. ...
Sunday, May 30, 2010

Pic pick: "Chungking Express"

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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Close Encounters of the Cool Job Kind

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Here's the Gulliver-like head of my pal Glenn Erickson (who by night dons a mask and rides the cinema countryside as DVD Savant ), surve...
Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Blazing Saddles (1974) — Excuse me while I whip this out

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"Not only was it authentic frontier gibberish, but it expressed a courage that is little seen in this day and age." — Olson Johns...