As important to film culture as Wonderbread is to white trash, King Vidor's silent film The Crowd is a must-see for aspiring kino-ophiles. Though the film was released in 1928, the archetypal story of The Crowd is as relevant today as it was then. The beautiful piece of film history movingly demonstrates pain, monotony, poverty, family and tragedy, encompassing, without an ounce of the pedantic, all...
'Mon Oncle Antoine' plays at Pratt's Film Talk series "La Boheme," MGM's 1926 silent epic of selfless love in the pursuit of high-quality playwriting, will be shown Sunday afternoon at St. Mark's Lutheran Church, with organ accompaniment by James Harp, director of opera and education for the Lyric Opera House. The movie, directed by King Vidor and based on Puccini's opera, stars John Gilbert...
DENNIS JAMES - 2009/2010 TOUR PERFORMANCES SCHEDULE Performance Booking Contact: SILENT FILM CONCERTS- PO Box 2072, Tacoma, WA 98401 / 253-376-7447 / muscur@gmail.com November 13, Blue Mouse Theatre, Tacoma, Washington 86th Anniversary screening: original opening night film THE GREEN GODDESS November 15, Palace Theatre, Marion, Ohio Yannitell Memorial silent film series: Buster Keaton in THE CAMERAMAN...
How little you have to do to get into the feature well of a slick magazine these days. Thomas Mallon's takedown of Ayn Rand in The New Yorker is not online, but it is so phoned-in and lacking in protein that even this synopsis of the article feels padded. There's 1943-vintage prissy caviling about Rand's writing style. ("It is, in fact, badly executed on every level of language, plot, and characterization.")...
Victor Fleming Judy GarlandRay BolgerMargaret Hamilton In the beloved classic, a young girl from Kansas (Garland) finds herself in Oz, a colorful land of munchkins, flying monkeys, witches, talking trees, and catchy songs. It’s said that The Wizard of Oz has been seen more times than any other film. The story can be recited by the youngest of audiences: a hick orphan named Dorothy gets swept...
Photo by R.E.˜ via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Calabasas Pumpkin Festival Okay so maybe these hot hot temps have eclipsed any indication we had earlier this week that this is, in fact, October. But the calendar doesn't lie--and it's time to fete the great pumpkin. Today from 10 a.m .to 5 p.m head over to Juan Bautista de Anza Park (3701 Lost Hills Rd) in Calabasas for the Pumpkin...
Spike Jonze's heavily anticipated, hipster Where the Wild Things Are , from a screenplay by Jonze and Dave Eggers , succeeds in nothing so much as the clarifying the substance of the director's authorship, thanks largely to Charlie Kaufman's absence in the film's pre-production (marking a first in the director's three feature career). Whereas both of Jonze's previous films supplied a distinctive sensibility...
The actor's Sunset Strip-area 1923 Spanish-style villa is priced at $3,695,000. Actor James Franco, who starred as Harry Osborn -- the New Green Goblin -- in "Spider-Man," has listed his Sunset Strip-area compound for $3,695,000.
Film producer Jon Peters ("Superman Returns," "Batman Returns") has sold a 6.5-acre residential lot in the Beverly Hills Post Office area for $12 million. The site of the former estate of director King Vidor included house plans by architect Richard...
How did King Vidor get to be called King? Did he have a son called Prince? On regular Shadowplayer Chris Schneider’s recommendation I ran LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE, a slightly gothic noir with a western ranch setting — something of an oddity. But Ruth Roman is excellent in it, fun and relaxed in a way she doesn’t [...]
Offspring #2, her wonderful husband, and our granddaughter Ma'ayan Ariel are with us for Succos. For the past two days I've been spending almost ever minute of the day with Ma'ayan Ariel. She is, as my son-in-law says, “A happy pill.” Ma'ayan smiling hugely as she tumbles and jumps on our bed. Looking pensive and worried, Ma'ayan and I are screening King Vidor's The Big Parade . Silent...
Tragedy strikes on the auto-clogged streets of New York... ... as the unlucky protagonist of King Vidor 's classic silent film, The Crowd (1928) , loses something precious to a passing truck.
Very Twitterish post, this, possibly the first of many. Some of the things I've been doing in the past week or so: - Ingesting excellent Beef Fry at Gunpowder . Strongly recommend it. Might not be to the taste of those who like their steaks rare or medium-rare, but the Kerala spices, very strong though they were, didn't overwhelm the flavour of the meat. - Watching some favourite old silent films on...
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