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Silent Whoopee Pictures
A friend recently brought my attention to a Craigslist posting for some 16mm films that were being sold by a private collector in Denver who was offering a 16mm Kodak Pageant 2505 projector, take-up...
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“Terror Has a New Face”–It’s Called Straight-to-DVD Marketing
Earlier this week, I found myself leafing through the sellsheets for those outrageous productions that straight-to-DVD companies market to Facets, hoping that we will carry them for our online...
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Raoul Walsh, Adventurer
For a man who toiled in the studio system for close to 50 years, cranking out genre quickies and prestige productions with equal aplomb, Raoul Walsh’s work remains astonishingly coherent. My grab-bag...
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A Sneak Peak at Telluride Film Festival 2010
The 37th Telluride Film Festival promises to be another memorable event for the lucky attendees at this four-day film mecca that occurs over the Labor Day weekend, Sept. 3-6. Classic movie fans, in...
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With Special Guest Star Claudia Cardinale… as Herself
It’s hard to keep a secret anymore, even among the seasoned hush-hushers at The Telluride Film Festival. Constructing the line-up of special guests and honorees must be a logistical nightmare for...
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Dispatch from TFF 2010
I’m staying up until 2am, waking up five hours later, making mad dashes between one place and another with no room for error, and taking along food and clothing to sustain me for what might be a full...
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Notes on Telluride: Day of the Directors
On Saturday, I saw Ed Harris strolling casually down the middle of Pacific Street; later, I watched a woman outside the Galaxy Theater flirt shamelessly with French actor Edgar Ramirez, star of the...
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VCI. DVD. OMG.
Last week VCI Entertainment released two obscure DVDs into the wild: William Witney’s Apache Rifles (1964, above) and Four in the Morning (1965), which features Judi Dench in her first leading role....
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Maggie Smith in Capturing Mary
I didn’t watch the Emmy Awards this year but I was disappointed to learn that Maggie Smith didn’t win the award she was nominated for, which was Lead Actress in a Television Miniseries or Movie for her...
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The HorrorDads meet The Mist
In follow-up to our three-part roundtable discussion on raising children in the shadow of our shared love of horror, the HorrorDads have reunited and will reteam periodically to discuss works important...
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After The Show – Telluride Film Festival Potluck
One of the best kept secrets about the Telluride Film Festival is what happens AFTER the event. The town residents are treated to a 3 day, 6-film sampler with two different screenings at the Palm...
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Whiskey Mountain
As anyone who read his post yesterday knows, fellow Morlock Jeff is in Colorado. At the moment, he’s here in Boulder. I told him I’d give him a semi-private screening in the backyard of anything he...
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The Real Stars of Prohibition
This Wednesday, September 15, TCM presents “The Stars of Prohibition,” an evening of gangster movies set during the Roaring 20s. The “Stars” are not movie actors from the 1920s but gangsters, who...
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Magnificent Ruin: Secret Beyond the Door(1948)
Before I start this week’s blather, I wanted to acknowledge the passing of the great Claude Chabrol at the age of 80. Dave Kehr’s NY Times obituary is here, the AP’s is here, and David Hudson has an...
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Clive Donner’s Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1967)
In an unfortunate coincidence I watched Clive Donner’s coming of age sex farce Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush for the first time last week and a few days later I learned that Clive Donner had...
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That Strange Fellow
Boris Karloff is Frankenstein’s Monster – no one’s saying he isn’t – a role he essentially invented (Mary Shelley be damned) back in 1931, when he played the title creature for director James Whale and...
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Secret Agent Super Dragon
One of countless Eurospy actioners released in the wake of the James Bond film craze in the sixties, SECRET AGENT SUPER DRAGON (aka New York chiama Superdrago, 1966) has been mercilessly ridiculed on...
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“They’re here already! You’re next!”
With the passing of Kevin McCarthy on September 11th it seemed appropriate to screen Don Siegel’s classic, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). Seeing him run around the highways getting honked at by...
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The Return of Fright School
October at Facets brings out the dead, the demon cats, and the devil-possessed nuns as our second annual Fright School begins on the first of the month. Fright School, our Halloween edition of Night...
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The 48th New York Film Festival, Part 1
The 48th New York Film Festival begins this Friday night, with David Fincher’s The Social Network, and I’ll be hemorrhaging words about it for the next few weeks. J. Hoberman finished his term as a...
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