Harold Lloyd

Ask Parky: Was Harold Lloyd a pornographer?

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008

This week our film history expert answers your questions on amateur snappers, Laurel and Hardy in colour and a rival to Ginger Rogers

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news from me (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008

Historians of such things write of the four great silent comedians: Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton and Harry Langdon. Of these, my favorite is Keaton but the most interesting one may be Langdon, whose stardom was brief and...

Hooray For Harold Lloyd!

Oh! Mr Sloane! (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008

Dear Egg, Quick question - do you remember a tv series from the early eighties featuring John Mills, and, possibly, his wife? It was a gentle sitcom/ drama type, and I think it was quite successful. Do you remember, Linda? Do you?

New Book: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE WORST KIND - A Tell-All Memoire for Movie Buffs and Music Fans

ClickPress (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008

Internationally Acclaimed Conductor/Composer Phillip Lambro reveals intimate portraits of Hollywood’s movie-making elite, including Steven Speilberg and Alfred Hitchcock

Harold Lloyd

Later On (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008

I have a collection of Harold Lloyd films, and I was watching some this weekend. He really was a genius. Safety Last, for example, is a silent film, so the gags are all visual—and they ingenious. Moreover, many have multiple punch lines, as it were: you don’t get just one laugh from a gag, but [...]

The importance of the Veoh decision

Open Source (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008

Needless to say, Google's lawyers are happy. They now have a precedent to hit Viacom over the head with.

Harold Lloyd

georgiasam (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008

How China is taking the silver screen by storm

The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008

Hollywood's latest muse is China, and they have Jackie Chan to thank, writes Stuart Jeffries.

Ghent honors silent star Lloyd

Variety.com (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008

Film News: 'Safety Last,' 'Freshman' added to festival -- Silent film star Harold Lloyd will be under the spotlight at the 35th Ghent Film Festival with an exhibition and retrospective of four newly restored films -- "Safety Last!" (1923), "The Freshman" (1925), "Speedy" (1928) and "Welcome Danger" (1929).

Ten Great Silent Movies: Part II

Seraphic Secret (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008

Safety Last (1923). Harold Lloyd made a series of “thrill pictures.” This film is his best effort. Lloyd is usually rated number three in the silent comic pantheon, below Chaplin and Keaton. But Lloyd and his mob of clever, hard-working writers created tight scripts with almost perfect narrative coherence—and silent cinema's most precise sight gags. Harold Lloyd always played a character named Harold,...

Hollywood Comedy Movies - From Charlie Chaplin To Jim Carrie

Article Master (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008

Comedy movies started long back in the 1900s. The first movie to be produced was by Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope. This could also be considered the first to show the comic aspect of a movie. Comedy films began to appear more during the era of silent films, prior to the 1930s. These comedy movies were originally [...]

2008 SFSFF13—SSSSSSSSH!!!

Twitch (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008

It’s been hard to keep quiet about the San Francisco Silent Film Festival , which kicked off at the Castro Theatre last Friday evening with The Kid Brother (1927) , featuring Harold Lloyd and introduced by Leonard Maltin, and wrapped Sunday evening with King Vidor’s The Patsy (1928) . Here at Twitch , Michael Hawley provided an excellent overview and I spoke with Artistic Director Stephen Salmons ....

2008 SFSFF13—SSSSSSSSH!!!

The Evening Class (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008

It's hard to keep quiet about the San Francisco Silent Film Festival , poised to start at the Castro Theatre this Friday evening with the 7:00 presentation of The Kid Brother (1927) , featuring Harold Lloyd and introduced by Leonard Maltin. Here at The Evening Class , Michael Hawley's provided an excellent overview and I've spoken with Artistic Director Stephen Salmons, parts one and two . Delfin Vigil...

San Francisco Silent Film Festival

Metroblogging San Francisco (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008

[Above, Harold Lloyd with a cute monkey, and Colleen Moore with a cute haircut. (The guy’s not bad either.) All featured this weekend at the Castro Theatre.] On Friday night the San Francisco Silent Film Festival will fire up the 35mm projectors once more for a solid weekend of film at the Castro, bringing forgotten (and [...]

Comic to celebrate screen clowns

News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008

COMEDIAN Paul Merton, left, is set to bring his popular Silent Clowns film show to the Playhouse next month.