Gagman, then it must have been a 16mm copy -- it was so long ago I can't really remember, other than the print looked terrific. ;) And that those silent film festival weekends were a highlight of the year for several years. Bill at the time was a film studies grad student at Emory Univ. so we were a...

I once had the great privilege of watching Are Parents People in the private movie projection room of a local film professor, with film scholar/historian/preservationist/DVD producer David Shepard there to run his private 35mm copy through the professor's projection system. (I think it was 35mm, not...

Here's another one for you, Carrie!

Movies watched lately: Night Song (not a pre-code so this will be brief): Dana Andrews: recently blinded composer/pianist. Merle Oberon: wealthy socialite who loves his music but to overcome his bitterness, pretends to be poor blind girl. They fall in love. As herself she sponsors contest. He wins o...

Here's a fascinating article on the film collection of the Library of Congress and their preservation and archiving efforts and plans. They're looking ahead to the future -- 2000 years!

http://magazine.creativecow.net/article ... ive-system

I don't know if this belongs in musicals or westerns, but... I screencapped Warner Bros. musical short The Royal Rodeo, starring John Payne as a Wild West star who brings his company to a tiny European kingdom and proceeds to save the day, of course. Let's hear it for cowboy diplomacy and "The ...

I like Flashforward but I like the re-do of V even more, maybe because I really love the opposition of the two leading ladies -- one's eeee-vil and the other is goooood.:) http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/2971/morenabaccarinasanna255.jpg Morena Baccarin as Anna, eee-vil leader of the Vs http://img...

Uncle Stevie, don't forget John McCormack, notably Song O' My Heart, directed by Frank Borzage. McCormack would never get an acting prize for this film, but oh, the singing!

I was hoping TCM would run one of my most-wanted movies, the 1927 silent The Rough Riders, directed by Victor Fleming and starring Charles Farrell, Charles Emmet Mack and Mary Astor. I've never been able to find a copy of this. :( http://i893.photobucket.com/albums/ac140/moirathefinn/roughriders-1.j...

The Egyptian down the street was also booked for the festival. I saw Playtime, Pillow Talk, Singin' in the Rain, An Eastern Western and Safety Last there.

Those of us who saw the North American premiere of the latest restoration of Metropolis at the TCM fest know that you all have a major treat in store when it screens in your town (Kino is releasing it to theaters) or you watch it on the forthcoming Kino Blu-ray/DVD. In fact, I plan to see it again i...

Birdy and Klondike, just for you -- I pulled out this screencap of Big Boy sniffing Mary Duncan's sash in City Girl. She's not amused. He gets a slap in the face.



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Have arrived home. Have kissed the hubby and the dog (and in that order too). :) My adventures didn't end last night. In the shuttle bus to the airport, I found myself seated next to filmmaker and DVD producer Bret Wood, who has produced many DVDs for Kino. He had attended the festival as one of the...

SPLAT. That's my mind blowing at the Metropolis screening and.. Let's back up a little. Decided to take it easy today after yesterday's Moviepalooza, so I ambled over to the repeat screening of Sunny Side Up and had a grand old time. This time the theater was almost full and everyone really got into...

Oy, what a long day -- started at 9 a.m. with Playtime in 70mm and it's now 1:40 a.m. and I just got out of the Bride of Frankenstein screening. The person at the other Mac is watching rap videos. UGH. (Sorry, I hate rap.) I spent much of the day at the Egyptian Theatre, starting with Playtime. This...