The Big Parade (1925)
Ivoland! (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Movie: The Big Parade (1925) “The idle son of a rich businessman joins the army when the U.S.A. enters World War One. He is sent to ...
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The Big Parade 1925 (King Vidor) All...
Fleapit of the Mind (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
The Big Parade 1925 (King Vidor) All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 (Lewis Milestone)
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After Ayn Rand Week, the Healing Begins
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
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.")...
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The Wizard of Oz (70th Anniversary)
JoBlo (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
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...
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Get Out: Pumpkin Festival, Happy 87th Egyptian Theatre, Jazzfest, Clothing Cache, Baby Planning
LAist (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
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...
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New Film: Where the Wild Things Are
Tativille (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
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...
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James Franco lists home (Goblin glider not included)
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
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.
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Hot Property: Producer Jon Peters sells Beverly Hills-area site for $12 million
L.A. Land (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
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...
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Hail to the King
SHADOWPLAY (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
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 [...]
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Friday Fotos: Ma'ayan in L.A.
Seraphic Secret (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
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...
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Classic Sidewalks of the Silver Screen #26
twin city sidewalks (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
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.
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The post that twitted
Jabberwock (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
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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Tourneur, Lamarr, Penn & Teller and Kathy Bates in the Warner Archive
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
With just over 300 titles now included in the Warner Archive Collection, Warner has certainly kept its promise from earlier this year to keep bulking up their selection and, shockingly, have actually been listening to their customers by offering bundle packs and discounts on the DVD-R releases (I remember someone joking in regard to Little Darlings that $20 was pretty steep for a film starring Kristy...
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Movies About Labor
The Glittering Eye (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
Why don’t we think about movies about labor this Labor Day? Organized and a few otherwise. For a dystopian view of the potentially dehumanizing character of labor it’s still hard to beat Fritz Lang’s 1927 science fiction classic, Metropolis. After all these years it’s still visually stunning, full of haunting imagery. For [...]
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DVD Roundup: Spanky and the Gang, Sino-American Neo-Realism, and Small Town Noir
Cinema Viewfinder (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
There were so many screeners sent to me this week, a week in which I happened to be laid up (along with my son) with the H1N1 virus (we're fine now, thanks), that this will probably be the first of several posts coming your way this weekend in an effort to clear the decks before the start of the De Palma Blog-A-Thon on Monday. First up, is the Warner Archive Collection with this month's batch of releases:...