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Jabberwock (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
I first watched Erich von Stroheim ’s superb silent film Greed on the Turner movie channel around a decade ago. The version they showed then was the four-hour-long restoration that combined the approx. two hours of surviving live-action footage with another two hours of movie stills from the footage that had been lost forever. This odd combination of moving pictures punctuated by stationary images...
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Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Okay, so you've seen every director's cut of Blade Runner, but how about Metropolis, the film Blade Runner wishes it was? For the last 80 years, Metropolis has been available only in truncated versions, with as much as a fourth...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
FilmI've got an obsession with silent cinema. And there are directors working today whom I genuinely admire. My favourite is Gasper Noé, the French director, who made Seul Contre Tous and Irréversible. The box set of Erich von Stroheim's movies are astonishing. Books I'm re-reading The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa. He is fantastic and funny and tragic and melancholy all at once. Mary Butt is...
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Coffee Coffee and More Coffee (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Loren D. Estleman - 2008 New York: Forge Books The concept intrigued me - a murder mystery involving a film archivist. The sleuth of celluloid has the singular name of Valentino, and his self-given job title is Film Detective....
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Simon Louvish's elegantly exhaustive study of Cecil Blount DeMille (1881-1959) examines the actors life largely though through his 70 movies, completed during a 42-year career.
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The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
The DVD edition of "Queen Kelly," a famously abandoned late silent feature of 1928-29 that starred Gloria Swanson under the wayward direction of Erich von Stroheim, appends a memento that now seems priceless.
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Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
Well, volume three is cut down to a more manageable 10 discs, of death-defying adventure in exotic locations, propitious meetings with interesting or soon-to-be famous people, and enough short informational features about historic people and events to satisfy anyone’s History Channel jones. After watching all three sets and dimly recalling the series as [...]
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More Than Meets the Mogwai (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
Remember the Indiana Jones adventure where the young explorer became pallies with Carl Laemmle, shut down the production of Erich Von Stroheim's FOOLISH WIVES, and accompanied none other than John Ford (and Wyatt Earp and Harry Carey) on a Universal (the first of many factual errors, as Ford would have been at Fox at the time) shoot in 1920? As the first produced (of four) made-for-television movies...
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San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008
Back in Hollywood's Golden Era, the heyday of silent films and larger-than-life stars, the Oracle was one of its most prominent landmarks, a movie palace that rivaled Grauman's fabled Chinese Theater.
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 04/27/2008
Ever since 1925, when Erich von Stroheim turned a camera on Hayes Valley for his silent movie "Greed," film crews have encamped in San Francisco to capture its hazy orange light reflecting off the Golden Gate Bridge and roller-coaster hills affording...
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SCI FI Wire (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
Sean Patrick Flanery, who gained fame as the title character in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, told SCI FI Wire that he looks back upon his experiences on the 1990s TV show as the world's greatest history lesson.
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Asiaing.com (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
McTeague is a novel by Frank Norris. First published in 1899, it is set in San Francisco. The protagonist is a simple dentist named McTeague. The narrator never reveals McTeague's first name; he is referred to only as Mac by the other characters in the novel. In Erich von Stroheim's film adaptation, Greed, his first name is said...
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ABC TV (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
A society wife blackmails men from India with the help of her unscrupulous husband. CAST: Adolphe Menjou, Lily Damita, Erich Von Stroheim, Laurence Olivier DIR: Victor Schertzinger (1931)
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
Tuesday, April 1, 2008Last updated 12:10 p.m. PTApril Fools' Day: Time to embrace the sillinessNO FOOLIN'We kid you not. The history of April Fools' Day is a mystery. A popular theory is that it dates to the 16th century, when Pope Gregory decreed that the new year, per the Gregorian calendar, would begin on Jan. 1 instead of at the end of March. People who persisted in celebrating the new year according...
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Carpetbagger (Free subscription) | 02/20/2008
The Coen brothers made a wonderful movie, but just who are the Coen brothers?
