Parky at the Pictures (DVD 19/11/2009)
The Oxford Times | Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Reviews of Phantom; The Grand Duke's Finances; Sunrise; Seventh Heaven; Street Angel; Lucky Star; Liliom; and The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
F. W. Murnau
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City Girl (MOC) (R2/UK BD) in February
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
News: Through their twitter feed the Masters of Cinema series have announced the February DVD and Blu-ray Disc release of F.W. Murnau's City Girl in February 2010. The director's penultimate film is this vivid, painterly study of an impulsive and fragile m...
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50 Films (2500 maximum)
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974) .. Jacques Rivette Chimes at Midnight (1965) .. Orson Welles Gertrud (1964) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer Early Summer (1951) .. Yasujiro Ozu Sans Soleil (1983) .. Chris Marker Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) .. Bela Tarr The Green Ray (1986) .. Eric Rohmer Ivan the Terrible, Part Two (1946) .. Sergei M. Eisenstein The Mother and the Whore (1973) .. Jean Eustache The...
Explore : Abbas Kiarostami, Alain Resnais, Béla Tarr, Budd Boetticher, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Chantal Akerman, Charles Burnett, Chris Marker, Cinema, Jacques Becker, Jacques Rivette, Jean Eustache, Jean Renoir, Jean Vigo, Max Ophüls, Nicholas Ray, Orson Welles, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Roberto Rossellini, Terence Davies, Vincente Minnelli, Yasujiro Ozu
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Weighted list (10 votes minimum)
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974) .. Jacques Rivette Gertrud (1964) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer The Green Ray (1986) .. Eric Rohmer Chimes at Midnight (1965) .. Orson Welles Early Summer (1951) .. Yasujiro Ozu Late Spring (1949) .. Yasujiro Ozu Sans Soleil (1983) .. Chris Marker L'Atalante (1934) .. Jean Vigo The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) .. Victor Erice Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) .. Robert Bresson...
Explore : Alain Resnais, Béla Tarr, Bernardo Bertolucci, Buster Keaton, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Chris Marker, Cinema, Dziga Vertov, Erich von Stroheim, Georges Franju, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Demy, Jacques Rivette, Jacques Tati, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Renoir, Jean Vigo, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Luis Buñuel, Marcel Carné, Michelangelo Antonioni, Nicholas Ray, Orson Welles, Robert Altman, Robert Bresson, Satyajit Ray, Yasujiro Ozu
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Weighted list (20 votes minimum)
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
L'Atalante (1934) .. Jean Vigo The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) .. Victor Erice Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) .. Robert Bresson Tokyo Story (1953) .. Yasujiro Ozu Man with a Movie Camera (1929) .. Dziga Vertov La Règle du Jeu (1939) .. Jean Renoir Playtime (1967) .. Jacques Tati L'Avventura (1960) .. Michelangelo Antonioni Sunrise (1927) .. F.W. Murnau The Conformist (1970) .. Bernardo Bertolucci...
Explore : Akira Kurosawa, Alfred Hitchcock, Bernardo Bertolucci, Billy Wilder, Buster Keaton, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Carol Reed, Cinema, Dziga Vertov, Federico Fellini, Francis Ford Coppola, Fritz Lang, Gene Kelly, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Tati, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Renoir, Jean Vigo, John Ford, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Leo McCarey, Michelangelo Antonioni, Orson Welles, Robert Altman, Robert Bresson, Roman Polanski, Spike Lee, Stanley Donen, Stanley Kubrick, Terrence Malick, Vittorio de Sica, Wong Kar Wai, Wong Kar-Wai, Woody Allen, Yasujiro Ozu
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2009 New York City Horror Film Festival Featured Film Selection Announced
Smartcine.com (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
- The 2009 New York City Horror Film Festival (NYCHFF) today announced their 2009 feature film lineup that includes over fifty feature & short horror and sci-fi films not just from New York or The United States, but from numerous countries around the world that rang in subject matter from terrifying, to gory, and to [...]
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2009 List #1: US DVD Premieres
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Well, here it is, the first of sure-to-be-many end of the year/decade lists on the blog. As most of the DVD releases for 2009 have already been announced, I figured it safe to cross the Region 1, US DVD premieres off the list early. All of the DVDs below are for films that were previously unavailable on DVD in the States (though it's possible one or two might have had an unofficial bootleg circulating)....
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Things we like of late
Observations on Film Art (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
One of several posters the Stenberg brothers designed for Miss Mend. We’ve been quite busy in the tail end of October. David sweated over a Bresson essay, started on his online version of Planet Hong Kong, and continued to help out in Lea Jacobs’ seminar on film stylistics. Kristin has started organizing a book about the [...]
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Pete’s pick of the Halloween horrors on DVD
Movie Talk (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
For true connoisseurs of the cinema comes The Masters of Cinema’s latest fantastic find, Phantom, from director FW Murnau (the man behind Nosferatu and The Last Laugh). Long thought lost, this surreal silent epic from 1922 is a [...]
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The Golem Screens at REDCAT Friday and Saturday with Live Score
LAist (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
The Golem | Photo: Courtesy of REDCAT We know that there's absolutely too much stuff to do this weekend. The classic horror film choices alone are amazing, so to make decisions even more difficult, REDCAT is screening the 1920 German expressionist classic The Golem with a live score by Brian LeBarton --better known as Beck's keyboardist and musical director--with special guest Carla Azar on drums...
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Fri. November 6th, 2009 - LaSaM Presents: Nosferatu's Shadow
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Victoria: LaSaM presents a screening of the original silent film Nosferatu with live music accompaniment.
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THE EARLY WORD: The Bloodsucker Proxy
Phawker (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Traverse Arts Project announces its second annual Nosferatu Screening, featuring African American Woman Organist T. Desiree Hines on Friday October 30th at the First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut Street. Tickets for each regular performance are $10 per person, and $5.00 for students and seniors. More information about the event may be found at www.traversetheater.org/nosferatu.htm. T. [...]
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Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
Pasadena Events Calendar (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Take a trip back to the 1920s and the era of great silent films that were accompanied not by soundtracks but on pipe organs through a free showing of Nosferatu. On Halloween night, Dr. Timothy Howard accompanies the silent film masterpiece on the PPC sanctuary organ in the first concert of the 2009-2010 Friends of [...]
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VAULTS: Bloody good vampire movies
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Since its 1922 debut, F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu" has remained the prototype for all notable vampire thrillers that aspire to be taken seriously as imaginative inducements to apprehension. In pursuit of this aim, the figure of the vampire Nosferatu (purloined from Bram Stoker's Dracula without respect for copyright) was not comely or disarming in the slightest. As embodied by Max Schreck, he...
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Silents are golden at the London film festival | Ronald Bergan
The blog Film (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
The London film festival is screening three silent classics this year, reminding us just how eloquent dialogue-free movies are capable of being Is there anyone out there who still needs to be convinced of the superiority of silent movies? They hold their own easily against sound, colour and widescreen films in any canonical list. Silent movies are the ne plus ultra of cinema. The rest is… theatre...