Happy birthday Ella!

She was one of the best, I think. I can listen to her recordings forever.

The images are lovely. You and the kids have seen some incredibly beautiful sights. I hope your fever is lower tomorrow.

Old Wives for New does display eye-popping fashions. It's a very strange story, with a lot of illogical twists and turns, but I like to watch it just for the decor. The story about the kept women intrigued me the most in that movie. I thought it was interesting how the more experienced woman kept gi...

Hi Lauren! Sorry I'm a bit late here, but welcome! I hope you'll like it here at this board.

The Threepenny Opera was released by Criterion last year. On amazon, they talk favourably of the gorgeous black and white cinematography, so I guess that means they have restored it.

Your experience sounds more like the one I have from the UK dvd version.

Thank you for reviewing that set, Fernando! It's something I might look for when I visit the US this summer. It's a great opportunity to not have to pay for shipping. I re-watched a film yesterday, which I should perhaps not be classed as a precode since it isn't American. But if it had been, it cer...

Hee hee. Yes, you can always hope for something like that. I'm sure it'll be a great wedding. Good luck with your research! :D I'm glad we chose it as our alternative. Of course I now want to go back to all these places and spend time there. A cruise is a great way of seeing lots of different places...

According to Lillian Gish, It mystified Victor Sjöström that they could create such chemistry in spite of the language problem. They couldn't speak to each other, but could still understand each other thanks to their silent acting.

I love musicals. The ways I tend to separate the different genres of musicals in my head are: Those that are in a classic operetta style, like the ones with Jeanette McDonald, and many others. Well, a lot of musicals are like that really. I don't know where the boundaries lie. Busby Berkley pre-code...

I can understand why your head is spinning! Do you need to wind down?

Watch a musical?

Welcome back Alison! I hope you had a great trip! Gösta Berling wasn't the first silent I saw, but I think it was the first I saw that was acted out in a grand, traditional manner, similar to Metropolis and other German films. I hadn't read the novel then either, so I didn't realize how well the st...

Those movies sound great. I love a good precode. 8) I saw Wings together with my parents. Dad thought it was going to be an action adventure film, he was absolutely astonished with the anti-war message. I think that, watching it with them, I also saw it in a new light. I had thought of it as the mov...

It is, yes. Thank you metsfan.

I find it quite interesting, that Lars married Karin after she was divorced from Gustav Molander, and Molander even directed Lars in a few films after he and Karin were married. Did the two of them meet during the filming of Erotikon? It appears to be Karin's last film. You worked at a film archive...

I hadn't heard about this book. Shows what I know. It looks like something I might want to read though.

I just wrote about Lars Hanson at the silents thread. My knowledge is a bit limited, since the only biography I know of isn't in general ciculation.