Let's fold scarves (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Humphrey Bogart - a poster from a Karsh exhibition featuring this photograph used to hang on my wall James Cagney - he is not like the others Charles Boyer - he had the most beautiful deep set eyes and I find the manner of his death moving Steve Cochran - I couldn’t find a photo to do him [...]
FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
THE HANDS OF ORLAC (1924) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper) CAPSULE: One of the nearly forgotten films of the German (actually in this case Austrian) Expressionist period is the Conrad Veidt version of THE HANDS OF ORLAC. This is a seminal horror melodrama about a pianist whose hands are destroyed in a train crash and are replaced by hands taken from an executed murderer. The hands come to have a...
Thomas Kraemer (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
PHOTO: Conrad Veidt as a persecuted Uranian and Magnus Hirschfeld as himself, a therapist, in "Anders als die Anderen," (dir. Richard Oswald, 1919). An imprisoned Veidt watches a long procession of homosexual kings, poets and philosophers passing under a banner marked "Paragraph 175," referring to the German law against homosexual sex and sodomy that Hirschfeld was fighting to repeal. (See Graham Robb,...
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Things come better in pairs. What good is T without A? Who would want something that was only new and not improved? What good is a black and white cookie if its just a black or white cookie? That's damned racist. So it should come as no surprise that ...
Twitch (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
In an assured and brilliant stroke of timely programming, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival ("SFSFF") included Paul Leni ‘s 1928 “silent” classic The Man Who Laughs as their Centerpiece presentation, acknowledging the direct influence the film’s protagonist Gwynplaine ( Conrad Veidt ) had upon the creation and development of Bob Kane ‘s Batman archnemesis The Joker (masterfully appropriated by...
NOTCOT.ORG (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
The Joker Evolution - Every Joker, since Conrad Veidt in "The Man Who Laughs"
VH1 (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
From Cesar Romero's prankster to Jack Nicholson's campy killer to Heath Ledger's deranged psychopath, we take a look at the Joker, Batman's greatest foe.
MTV News (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
From Cesar Romero's prankster to Jack Nicholson's campy killer to Heath Ledger's deranged psychopath, we take a look at the Joker, Batman's greatest foe.
GreenCine Guru (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Reviewer: Jeffrey M. Anderson Rating (out of 5): ****½ The Thief of Bagdad usually gets lumped in with other films by director Michael Powell (I Know Where I'm Going, The Red Shoes, etc.). Die-hard Powell fans will recognize his...
USA Today (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
All is fair in love, war and Baghdad in these three top picks.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
A weekly listing of new DVDs.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
Producer Alexander Korda's 1940 classic, whose directing team included British master Michael Powell, was ahead of its time with its ravishing color and visual effects.
The Sheila Variations (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
Combining the impeccable aesthetic of MGM, the meticulous lighting and atmosphere George Cukor is known for, and some kick-ass performances by all the leads (Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt, Osa Massen), A Woman's Face is a psychological melodrama...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
Jules Dassin's career had two distinct phases. During the 1940s he worked in Hollywood, gaining a reputation for tough, realistic thrillers, but he was blacklisted because of his communist past and forced to start afresh in Europe, where several of his films starred his second wife, the Greek actress Melina Mercouri, later Minister of Culture in Athens.
Gawker (Free subscription) | 03/14/2008
In today's installment of our review of the world's most amusing vintage ads, we take a look at General Electric's magazine ads from the 1930s and 40s. When they weren't building US bombs to help the...
