Hello Mr Sever! I bought your Robert Mitchum biography when it came out in London. I want to thank you for your splendid work. I have read many actor's biographies and very few are worth reading more than once. They usually rely on a pile of gossips and very few try to assess properly the films. You...

Yesterday, I went to see a very handsome French silent, Le Chant de l'Amour Triomphant (1923) by Viktor Tourjansky. This was a production from the Albatros company composed of Russian émigrés, just outside Paris at the time. This fairy tale was an adaptation of Turgueniev. It took place in XVIth cen...

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa123/cleteux/SilverScreen/bandefinal.jpg Chapter IX An Idle Man in the Middle of Working Men (End) He listened more. - That's right! Poor baby! declared Tito's cheerful voice…and above all, give him a good amount! Don't forget that yesterday he nearly broke his b...

Hi Moraldo! Actually La Cinémathèque moved in 2005 to the east of Paris, in Bercy. It's now housed in the former 'American Centre' built by architect Frank O. Gehry. Here , you'll get more details. I like the new building better than the former dark and gloomy Trocadero screening room. If ever you c...

Ann Harding, I was comforted to see that Paris cinemas are still going strong. I have many movie-going memories of the City of Light. But I'd heard that my old favorite cinema there -- Pagode -- was closed, and that's a tragedy. I hope the building, with its dramatic frescoes has been saved. I wond...

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa123/cleteux/SilverScreen/bandefinal.jpg Chapter IX An Idle Man in the Middle of Working Men (part I) Cassatti didn't go unnoticed in the middle of the circus' wings. If Father Barretti was proud of his visit, he couldn't ask ordinary artists –his workforce– to s...

he should have told her to go to see Double Indemnity!

If you're looking for new releases of classic films, I found this website recently:

http://www.classicflix.com/index.php

I just remembered a few other occasions where I saw Anna Lee. First, she is Mrs Miles Fairley in The Ghost and Mrs Muir where I completely failed to remember her....and second, she was in Douglas Sirk's little seen Summer Storm (1944) where she plays a Russian lady. Again, she is quite overshadowed ...

Welcome Brandon! Wilder, Sturges and Powell are also favourites of mine!!!

I find Anna Lee rather uninteresting as an actress, I am sorry to say. I have spotted her in many Ford productions in the supporting cast where she was OK, but that's all. Funnily, her Hollywood career started with a terrible turkey (and flop!) called My Life With Caroline (1941). This is probably R...

Thanks ChiO, for all these details. :wink: Actually, Painting With Light has been reissued in 1995 by the University of California Press. From what you say, It sounds a bit too technical for me as well. I'll try to find it in a library. :wink: I am very interested by cinematographers' memoirs. I rea...

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa123/cleteux/SilverScreen/bandefinal.jpg Chapter VIII To the Conquest of a Star When Count Cassatti entered the circus, the performance was already well underway; the first part was nearly ending. Father Barretti professed that each act should end on a 'sublime f...

Thanks ChiO for this nice overview of Alton's career! :D He is also one of my favourite cinematographers. His work on the American in Paris ballet is just incredible (especially if you compare it with the very bland and boring work of Gilks in the rest of the picture...). I adore his work in film no...

I know that one! The wonderful One Alone choreographed by Eugene Loring in Deep in My Heart.
Thanks Jezebel!