Lon Chaney Articles
Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Elvis Presley, Heath Ledger: WHAT IF THEY LIVED?
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight Written by Online Film Critics Society members Phil Hall and Rory Leighton Aronsky, What If They Lived? (BearManor Media, 2011) takes a look at the lives and oeuvre of celebrities whose film careers were prematurely curtailed by death. As befitting their book’s title, Hall and Aronsky then wonder, "What if they lived?" Encompassing the early days of cinema all the [...]
Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford, THE LOST WORLD, HUBBLE 3D: SXSW Special Events
Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford in Tod Browning’s The Unknown (MGM) (top); Toni Myers‘ Hubble 3D (IMAX / Warner Bros.) (bottom) The 2010 SXSW Film Festival will take place March 12-20 in Austin, Texas. All My Friends are Funeral Singers with Live Soundtrack by Califone Director and Screenwriter: Tim Rutili Zel, a fortune-teller, is aided in her prognostication by a band of ghosts, but when a [...]
Abel Gance, Lon Chaney, Buster Keaton: San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Chang by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack (top); J’accuse! by Abel Gance (middle); Lon Chaney in Tod Browning’s West of Zanzibar (bottom) Abel Gance’s 1919 anti-war drama J’accuse! is the centerpiece of this winter’s edition of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, to be held on Saturday, Dec. 12, at the Castro Theater. The 162-minute, recently restored J’accuse!, which is having its US [...]
Lon Chaney’s THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Halloween Screening
The 1925 silent classic The Phantom of the Opera, starring Lon Chaney (above) in the title role, will be screened on Sunday, Oct. 25, at 2:30 pm at the San Gabriel Mission Playhouse. This Halloween Special presentation by the Los Angeles Theatre Organ Society will feature live musical accompaniment on a Wurlitzer theatre organ restored with the support of the Peter Lloyd Crotty Charitable Fund. [...]