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	<title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Silent Films</title>
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		<title>Actress Dorothy Janis Dies: One of the Last Silent Screen Performers</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/dorothy-janis-dies-silent-movies-591/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dorothy Janis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Garson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard Lawson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lummox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Ankerich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ramon Novarro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silent Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Pagan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The White Captive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[W. S. Van Dyke]]></category>

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Ramon Novarro, Dorothy Janis in The Pagan

Dorothy Janis, who made a few film appearances at the dawn of the sound era and was the widow of bandleader Wayne King, died Wednesday morning in the Phoenix suburb of Paradise Valley, according to musician Lew Williams, who received the news from Janis&#8217; granddaughter. Janis,  one of the last surviving performers to have played at least one major role in silent films, was either 98 or 100, depending on the source.
A pretty, petite  brunette with sensuous lips &#8212; according to (possibly made-up) reports from the period, she was half-Native American &#8212; Dorothy Janis was born in Dallas on Feb. 19, 1910 or 1912. Her most notable movie role was that of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A CITY at Filmforum</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/berlin-symphony-of-a-great-city-screening-44499/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berlin: Symphony of a City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Filmforum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Screenings]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Walther Ruttmann]]></category>

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The Los  Angeles Filmforum will be hosting the  Munich  Film Museum&#8217;s Stefan Droessler on Friday March 12,  8:00 pm at the The Echo Park Film Center. As per the Filmforum press release, the Museum &#34;has an ongoing program of restoration of film works  and issuing exemplary DVD editions through the Edition Filmmuseum  label.&#34;
At Filmforum, Droessler will &#34;present the issues and process involved in their  restoration of the pioneering film work of Walther Ruttmann, followed  by a presentation of the classic poetic documentary masterwork Berlin: Symphony of a City [1927].  The presentation will include photos, scans of paintings, and Ruttmann’s short films OPUS I-IV, and will last about 60-80 minutes, followed by intermission [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethnicity in Film: Ramon Novarro</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/ramon-novarro-mexican-star-44876/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Actors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anna May Wong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethnicity in Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Muni]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ramon Novarro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sessue Hayakawa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silent Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Son-Daughter]]></category>

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Ethnicity in Film: Luise Rainer, Nancy Kwan
The issue of ethnicity and movie roles came up to me  a few years ago, while I was working on a biography of Mexican-born actor Ramon Novarro (above), Beyond Paradise. I&#8217;d read much about white performers playing non-white roles, but basically nothing about non-white actors playing white roles. Yet, back in those days it wasn&#8217;t that uncommon. Although Novarro, for one, had a  Mediterranean look, he clearly had some Indian blood as well.  Dolores del Rio and Sessue Hayakawa were a couple of other non-white performers who played a varied of ethnicities &#8212; including Caucasian types &#8212; in their Hollywood films.
In Novarro&#8217;s case, his Mexican background and mixed ethnicity didn&#8217;t prevent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buster Keaton, Norma Talmadge, Constance Talmadge: Kansas Silent Film Festival</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/buster-keaton-norma-talmadge-constance-talmadge-48124/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buster Keaton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constance Talmadge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Douglas Fairbanks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kansas Silent Film Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norma Talmadge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Our Hospitality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silent Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smilin' Through]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Matrimaniac]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Yankee Clipper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Boyd]]></category>

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Buster Keaton&#8217;s Our Hospitality will be introduced by Keaton&#8217;s granddaughter Melissa  Talmadge Cox at the  opening  of the 14th annual Kansas  Silent Film Festival at 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 26, in White Concert Hall,  Washburn  University.  The Festival continues  Saturday, Feb. 27. Admission is free both days.  
According to the KSFF press release, Talmadge Cox &#34;will  relate how the 1923 film was a family affair, with both her  grandparents as the  stars (Buster Keaton and Natalie Talmadge) and her great-grandfather  (Joe  Keaton) and her father (James Keaton) in small roles.&#34; Musical  accompaniment  will be provided by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra of Boulder,  Colo. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fritz Lang&#8217;s METROPOLIS in Berlin and San Francisco</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/fritz-lang-metropolis-berlin-festival-49012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alloy Orchestra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berlin 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berlin Film Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brigitte Helm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fritz Lang]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metropolis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[San Francisco Silent Film Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silent Films]]></category>

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&#34;Maybe you’ve heard the buzz about Metropolis,&#34; reads a newsletter from the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. &#34;The incredible discovery of long-lost footage from director Fritz Lang’s masterpiece. Found in a vault   	in Buenos Aires, the complete film has been reconstructed and restored by the F.W. Murnau Foundation.&#34; The restored 1927 silent classic starring Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, and Gustav Fröhlich had its premiere  at the Berlin Film Festival on February 12. 
Come next July, SFSFF will screen the restored version as part of its 15th anniversary festival. The screening will be accompanied by the Alloy Orchestra. 
Back to Metropolis at the Berlin Film Festival: The sold-out screening at the Friedrichstadt Palace  was beamed simultaneously to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marion Davies, Ronald Colman, Constance Talmadge, Phyllis Haver: &#8220;Sound and Silents&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/marion-davies-ronald-colman-constance-talmadge-89814/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cecil B. DeMille]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constance Talmadge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Her Sister from Paris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[King Vidor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lotte Reiniger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marion Davies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ronald Colman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sidney Franklin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silent Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Adventures of Prince Achmed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Patsy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victor Varconi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;Sound and Silents&#34; is the title of a four-film series &#8212; part of the wider &#34;Birds Eye View Film Festival&#34; celebrating women filmmakers &#8212; to be held at London&#8217;s bfi Southbank and the Barbican from March 6-10.
The four screening silent films are: King Vidor&#8217;s The Patsy (1928), starring Marion Davies; Sidney Franklin&#8217;s Her Sister from Paris (1925), starring Constance Talmadge and Ronald Colman (right); Cecil B. DeMille&#8217;s  Chicago (1927), with Phyllis Haver and Victor Varconi; and Lotte Reiniger&#8217;s animated The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926). All four films will feature live musical accompaniment.
The most enjoyable of the four is Sidney Franklin&#8217;s Lubitschesque Her Sister from Paris, which offers Constance Talmadge at her screwballish best &#8212; and this before screwball [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford, THE LOST WORLD, HUBBLE 3D: SXSW Special Events</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/lon-chaney-joan-crawford-hubble-3d-1876/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arthur Leander</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[All My Friends Are Funeral Singers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bessie Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carl Theodor Dreyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hubble 3D]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joan Crawford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lon Chaney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silent Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SXSW 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SXSW Film Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Lost World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Unknown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tod Browning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toni Myers]]></category>

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Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford in Tod Browning&#8217;s The Unknown (MGM) (top); Toni Myers&#8216; 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 mysterious light appears, she may have to give up  the only family she knows. 
    Cast: Angela Bettis, Emily Candini, Reid Coker, Kevin Ford, Joe Adamik, Jim Becker, Ben Massarella, Tim Rutili  
 Hubble 3D 
    Director: Toni Myers
    [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HARRY POTTER, CLASH OF THE TITANS in 3D: Film History Repeats Itself</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/harry-potter-clash-of-the-titans-3d-193/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Avatar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clash of the Titans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dorothy Mackaill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Potter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Leigh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milton Sills]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Barker]]></category>

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Rupert Grint in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Jaap Buitendijk / Warner Bros.)

At ropeofsilicom.com, Brad Brevet has announced that Mike Leigh will release Vera Drake 2 in 3D, which proves that James Cameron&#8217;s Avatar has truly revolutionized the industry. I mean, there are no wars, flying creatures, of blue people in the original Vera Drake, which is just a slice-of-life drama about an abortionist (Imelda Staunton) in 1950s&#8217; England, a time when the procedure was still illegal in that country. 
Brevet adds that another Mike Leigh flick to go the 3D way is Happy-Go-Lucky, which will be converted from its current 2D format so you can feel Sally Hawkins&#8216; cheeriness more realistically. Or &#8230;
&#34;Of course, none of this is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frank Lloyd III: Silent Films</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/silent-films/frank-lloyd-cecil-b-demille-184/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Silent Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anna Held]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Slide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Lloyd]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Madame La Presidente]]></category>
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Jackie Coogan in Oliver Twist

Frank Lloyd II: CAVALCADE, MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
In your book, you discuss a number of early Frank Lloyd efforts, including many rarities from the 1910s. I&#8217;m assuming you got to watch many of those films. The questions are: Are there many extant Frank Lloyd silents? How do they compare with the work of other major silent filmmakers who tackled melodramas of one form or another, say, D. W. Griffith, Cecil B. DeMille, or Rex Ingram?
  Some of Lloyd&#8217;s Universal one- and two-reelers survive at various archives. They are not &#34;masterpieces,&#34; but they are on a par with films from other secondary directors of the period. In other words, they are not comparable to those directed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frank Lloyd II: CAVALCADE, MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/frank-lloyd-cavalcade-mutiny-on-the-bounty-111/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Directors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Slide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cavalcade]]></category>
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Pauline Frederick in Madame X

Frank Lloyd: Q&#038;A with Anthony Slide &#8211; Part I
Frank Lloyd&#8217;s greatest strengths as a filmmaker? His greatest weaknesses?
  I have partly answered this question above. And I suppose, in a way, one might argue that his greatest strength &#8212; as a studio director &#8212; is also his greatest weakness. He put the studio first. He seldom went over-budget. He brought his films in on schedule. He worked well with actors and actresses, some of whom were known to be temperamental.
&#160;
 Frank Lloyd directed numerous melodramas of various subgenres, but do his films &#8212; or at least a majority of them &#8212; share any sort of directorial or thematic element(s), e.g., the way male or female [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FRANK LLOYD: MASTER OF SCREEN MELODRAMA</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/frank-lloyd-master-of-screen-melodrama-112/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[A Tale of Two Cities]]></category>
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Milton Sills in The Sea Hawk (top); William Farnum in A Tale of Two Cities (bottom)

Frank Lloyd Intro I: Two-Time Oscar Winner
Unlike  George Cukor, Henry Hathaway, Howard Hawks,  William Wyler, or even John Ford, Frank Lloyd specialized in one movie genre: melodrama. From  A Tale of Two Cities   to Cavalcade, from The Sea Hawk  to The Howards of Virginia, from Black Oxen to Blood on the Sun, the vast majority of Lloyd&#8217;s movies were supposed to make you leave the theater at least a little shaken up after having suffered for a couple of hours with Pauline Frederick, Norma Talmadge, Milton Sills, Clara Bow, Richard Barthelmess, Ann Harding, Claudette Colbert, Cary Grant, or James [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abel Gance, Lon Chaney, Buster Keaton: San Francisco Silent Film Festival</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/gance-chaney-keaton-san-francisco-silent-festival-998/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Chang by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack (top); J&#8217;accuse! by Abel Gance (middle); Lon Chaney in Tod Browning&#8217;s West of Zanzibar (bottom)

Abel Gance&#8217;s 1919 anti-war drama J&#8217;accuse! is the centerpiece of this winter&#8217;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&#8217;accuse!, which  is having its US big-screen premiere at the festival, focuses on a love triangle set in World War I Europe, a time when men were slaughtering  one another for some great cause or other. (As always, the great cause in question depended on which side you were fighting.) Actual soldiers took part in the film, and in one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Norma Shearer: Proudly and Inescapably Neurotic</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Two radically different Norma Shearer characters: as loving (ditched) wife and mother  in The Women, with Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell (top); as a woman with a penchant for pointed feathers in Lady of the Night (bottom). She also enjoyed to be slapped around by Clark Gable in A Free Soul (below right)

Mike LaSalle on Norma Shearer:
&#34;Shearer was at her best in the films no one sees: her silents. When you see her in the masterpieces she made with Monta Bell &#8211; or even in fluff, such as Lady of Chance &#8211; there&#8217;s no question that she was a great silent-film actress. In the talkies, the work is uneven, sometimes in curious ways. &#8230; Generally, I think the mistake [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charles Chaplin&#8217;s ZEPPED Found</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/charles-chaplin-zepped-found-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Chicago Tribune, Michael Phillips reports that a long-thought lost Charles Chaplin film has been accidentally found after a film collector made an eBay bid  on a nitrate film canister.
Phillips explains that &#34;the footage turned out to be the obscure Chaplin short [Zepped], a World War  I propaganda effort designed to buck up British morale, combining  stop-motion animation and outtakes and unused alternate shots from  films Chaplin made for both Keystone and Essanay studios.
&#34;The hybrid, over which Chaplin apparently exercised no creative  control, includes a shot or two from His New Job, the short film  Chaplin made for the Chicago-based Essanay during his 23-day residency  here in late 1914 and early 1915.&#34;
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		<title>D.W. Griffith in California</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/d-w-griffith-in-california/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blanche Sweet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Los Angeles Filmforum will present &#34;D.W. Griffith in California,&#34; on Sunday,  Nov. 15, at 7:30 pm. at the Echo Park Film Center. At the screening, film  scholar Tom Gunning will discuss D. W. Griffith and his early Californian films.
Six of those Griffith productions will be screened: Man&#8217;s Genesis (1912, 17 min); The New Dress  (1911, 17 min.); The Massacre (1914, 20 min); The Unchanging Sea   (below right, 1910, 14 min.); The Sands of Dee (1912, 17 min); and The Female of the  Species (1912, 17 min).
All in 16mm, with live musical accompaniment by  Cliff Retallick.
Among the early stars featured in those shorts are Blanche Sweet, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Arthur Johnson, Wilfred Lucas, and, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE PONY EXPRESS &#8211; Betty Compson, Ricardo Cortez</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/the-pony-express-betty-compson-ricardo-cortez/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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The Pony Express (1925)
Direction: James Cruze
Screenplay: Walter Woods; from Woods and Henry James Forman&#8217;s story
Cast: Betty Compson, Ricardo Cortez, George Bancroft, Ernest Torrence, Wallace Beery, Al Hart
&#160;

The Pony Express is a  rousing James Cruze Western depicting the founding of the Pony Express with a backdrop of political ambitions concerning a senator&#8217;s plans to get California to secede from the United States so he can build his own empire. 
A great cast and Cruze&#8217;s direction keep this one interesting &#8212; even though Ricardo Cortez in a period film seems woefully out of place and pretty Betty Compson&#8217;s role is more or less that of an ingenue,  merely requiring her to look good while reacting  to the things going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE RAVEN &#8211; Henry B. Walthall &#8211; d: Charles Brabin</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/the-raven-henry-b-walthall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bazen</dc:creator>
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The Raven (1915)
Direction: Charles Brabin
Screenplay: Charles Brabin; from George Cochran Hazelton&#8217;s novel and play The Raven: The Love Story of Edgar Allan Poe 
Cast: Henry B. Walthall, Warda Howard
&#160;

Starring Henry B. Walthall, The Raven is an  Essanay feature depicting the life of Edgar Allan Poe, starting with his childhood and going all the way to his marriage to his cousin (played by the little-known Warda Howard). 
Charles Brabin&#8217;s direction is uneven: At some points it&#8217;s stagy and rudimentary;  at other points, Brabin  creates some remarkably striking and eerie visual effects, including a bravura scene for Walthall in which he descends further and further into madness following the death of his wife. Brabin visualizes this with a barrage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>M&#8217;LISS &#8211; Mary Pickford, Thomas Meighan</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/mliss-mary-pickford-thomas-meighan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bazen</dc:creator>
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M&#8217;Liss (1918)
Direction: Marshall Neilan
Screenplay: Frances Marion; from Bret Harte&#8217;s story 
Cast: Mary Pickford, Thomas Meighan, Theodore Roberts, Tully Marshall, Charles Ogle, Monte Blue, Winifred Greenwood
&#160;

Mary Pickford, Thomas Meighan in M&#8217;Liss
&#160;

Directed by Marshall Neilan and written by Frances Marion &#8211; two frequent Mary Pickford collaborators &#8212; M&#8217;Liss is one of Pickford&#8217;s very best films. In this comedy-drama, Pickford plays a spirited and unruly mountain girl, that&#8217;s the M&#8217;Liss of the title, who falls in love with the new schoolteacher (Thomas Meighan) &#8212; who is later falsely accused of murder. 
Pickford, by then already a superstar, gives a sterling performance; she is ably supported by (future star) Thomas Meighan as the schoolteacher, as well as a fine collection of character actors including [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE GREAT WHITE TRAIL &#8211; Doris Kenyon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bazen</dc:creator>
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The Great White Trail (1917)
Direction: Leopold Wharton and Theodore Wharton
Screenplay: Gardner Hunting and Leopold Wharton 
Cast: Doris Kenyon, Paul Gordon, Richard Stewart, Thomas Holding, Louise Hotaling, Hans Roberts, Edgar Davenport
&#160;

Some films have &#34;everything except the kitchen sink&#34; as the saying goes. Well, the 1917 melodrama The Great White Trail has a plot that has everything and about three kitchen sinks as well, as it briskly makes its way from one improbable situation after another before everything is happily resolved in the final reel. 
Doris Kenyon plays a happy young wife and mother. When her irresponsible brother appeals to her for help, her husband (Paul Gordon) misunderstands the situation, believing her to be unfaithful. He turns  her out of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HER NIGHT OF ROMANCE &#8211; Constance Talmadge, Ronald Colman</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/her-night-of-romance-constance-talmadge-ronald-colman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bazen</dc:creator>
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Her Night of Romance (1924)
Direction: Sidney Franklin
Screenplay: Hans Kräly 
Cast: Constance Talmadge, Ronald Colman, Jean Hersholt, Albert Grand, Robert Rendel
&#160;

Directed by Sidney Franklin and written by frequent Ernst Lubitsch collaborator Hans Kräly, Her Night of Romance is certainly on my list of top three favorite films at Cinesation 2009.
Constance Talmadge, whose extant films are hard to come by, is always a delightful comedienne. In Her Night of Romance, Talmadge  plays Dorothy Adams, a wealthy young woman who goes about in hideous disguises to ward off  fortune hunters  only interested in her money. Eventually, Dorothy meets and falls in love with an impoverished English Lord (Ronald Colman), who is mistaken for a doctor. The &#34;doctor&#34; goes along with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A COTTAGE ON DARTMOOR d: Anthony Asquith</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Johnson</dc:creator>
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A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929)
Direction: Anthony Asquith
Screenplay: Anthony Asquith; from a story by Herbert Price
Cast: Norah Baring, Uno Henning, Hans Schlettow
&#160;

Uno Henning in A Cottage on Dartmoor
&#160;

Very  little in a career overview of filmmaker Anthony Asquith prepares a  viewer for the brilliant thriller A Cottage on Dartmoor, released by Kino, which he both wrote (from a story by Herbert Price) and directed. Asquith&#8217;s wonderful  but straightforward adaptations of Pygmalion (1938) and The Browning  Version (1951) &#8212; and, to a lesser extent, The Importance of Being Earnest  (1952) and Libel (1959) &#8212; do not really speak to the dynamics of this 1929 film.
The director fully embraces the tale of obsessive love in terms of  silent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PILLARS OF SOCIETY &#8211; Henry B. Walthall &#8211; d: Raoul Walsh</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/pillars-of-society-raoul-walsh-henry-b-walthall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bazen</dc:creator>
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Pillars of Society (1916)
Direction: Raoul Walsh
Screenplay: From a novel by Henrik Ibsen
Cast: Henry B. Walthall, Mary Alden, Juanita Archer, George Beranger, Josephine Crowell, Olga Grey
&#160;

 Pillars of Society is a  film about hypocrisy, having its basis on a story by Ibsen. The Birth of a Nation hero Henry B. Walthall (right) plays the son of a Norwegian shipping company; in his youth, he goes to Paris to study and has an affair with a married Bohemian actress. However, his brother-in-law is falsely accused of having said affair with the actress;  he protects Walthall by accepting the blame and leaving for America. 
Years later, the brother-in-law  returns and demands that Walthall clear his name. Fearing that if the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CROOKED STREETS &#8211; Ethel Clayton</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/crooked-streets-ethel-clayton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bazen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Crooked Streets (1920)
Direction: Paul Powell
Screenplay: Edith M. Kennedy; from a story by  Samuel Merwin
Cast: Ethel Clayton, Jack Holt, Clyde Fillmore, Josephine Crowell
&#160;

&#160;

Beautiful Ethel Clayton, a major star in the 1910s, plays a young woman who takes a job as secretary to a Professor of antiquities about to embark upon a trip to China. Clayton, however, has a secret motive for wanting to get to China. 
Crooked Streets is an excellent  action-packed drama with a particularly impressive lengthy  chase sequence in which Clayton rides alone to a dangerous part of town and is attacked by a massive crowd of Chinese locals. The film also offers a  great fight sequence between Jack Holt and a Chinese thug who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>O MIMI SAN &#8211; Sessue Hayakawa, Mildred Harris</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/o-mimi-san-sessue-hayakawa-mildred-harris/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bazen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cecil B. DeMille]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Miller]]></category>
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O Mimi San (1914)
Direction: Charles Miller
Screenplay: Thomas H. Ince (unconfirmed)
Cast: Sessue Hayakawa, Mildred Harris, Tsuru Aoki
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O Mimi San is historically important as Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa&#8217;s first film. In it, Hayakawa plays a prince who goes to a retreat after an attempt on his life is made; once there he falls in love with a young woman (Mildred Harris,  future wife of Charles Chaplin) but then finds himself torn between love and  duty as a leader of his nation. Compounding matters, an arranged marriage (with Tsuru Aoki, Hayakawa&#8217;s own future wife) awaits him. 
Directed by Charles Miller and allegedly written by Thomas H. Ince (a studio head best remembered for his &#34;mysterious&#34; death in 1924), O Mimi San [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE DEVIL&#8217;S CLAIM &#8211; Sessue Hayakawa</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/the-devils-claim-sessue-hayakawa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bazen</dc:creator>
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The Devil&#8217;s Claim (1920)
Direction: Charles Swickard
Screenplay: J. Grubb Alexander
Cast: Sessue Hayakawa, Rhea Mitchell, Colleen Moore, William Buckley
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In The Devil&#8217;s Claim, Sessue Hayakawa plays an Indian (!) novelist who uses his experiences with women as inspiration for his novels. Next, he encounters a young American woman (Rhea Mitchell) who tells him a story about Satan-worshipping societies and evil talismans. Her real motive, however, is to reunite the novelist with Indora (future 1920s superstar Colleen Moore), a young Persian girl whom he had abandoned. 
Directed by Charles Swickard from a screenplay by J. Grubb Alexander, The Devil&#8217;s Claim is an excellent drama &#8212; and so is  Hayakawa&#8217;s performance. Much of the plot is told in the &#34;story within a story&#34; mode, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ramon Novarro III: Anita Page, Murder, Life As a Gay Man</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/ramon-novarro-ellenberger-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Anita Page, Ramon Novarro in The Flying Fleet

Ramon Novarro: Allan Ellenberger Interview II
Ramon Novarro and Anita Page. Do you  believe he actually asked her hand in marriage as she claimed later in life?
I do, and the main reason is that I knew Anita Page  and interviewed her extensively for over a year before her health really began  to decline. At that point, she would have short-term memory loss due to a stroke,  which made interviewing her more difficult. That, and the image that she  presented to the world in some ways made her appear unreliable. All I know is  that I was able to prove most of the stories she told me with secondary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ramon Novarro II: Best Films, Rex Ingram</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/ramon-novarro-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Jeanette MacDonald, Ramon Novarro in The Cat and the Fiddle. Photo: Courtesy Matias Bombal Collection.

Ramon Novarro: Allan Ellenberger Interview I
 How would you describe Ramon Novarro  the actor?
Novarro was a first-rate actor – maybe not an  Olivier, but a good solid actor. Even in bad films such as Laughing Boy (1934),  he had his moments. He was excellent in dramatic roles such as the aviator Alexis Rosanoff  opposite Greta Garbo in Mata Hari (1931), or as the rapist-suitor of Myrna Loy  in The Barbarian (1933). He excelled in light comedic moments, especially in  The Prisoner of Zenda (1922) and in several of his musicals including The Cat  and the Fiddle (1934) and The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ramon Novarro: Q&amp;A with Author Allan Ellenberger</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/ramon-novarro-allan-ellenberger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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I first contacted author Allan Ellenberger  shortly before the publication of his book on Old Hollywood star Ramon Novarro, as at the time I  was working on my own Novarro bio. Instead of treating me like a pesky rival, Allan generously shared the information he&#8217;d amassed throughout about a decade of research &#8212; and for that I was very thankful.
We&#8217;ve since become good friends (but Allan, you need to buy me pizza more often), so I&#8217;m glad to report that his Ramon Novarro (McFarland, 1999) is now available in paperback at online bookstores. In his carefully researched book (I&#8217;ve read it about four or five times), Allan discusses Ramon Novarro&#8217;s life and career from his early beginnings in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lon Chaney&#8217;s THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Halloween Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/lon-chaney-the-phantom-of-the-opera-halloween/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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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.
Directed by Rupert Julian, The Phantom of the Opera is perhaps  Lon Chaney’s best-known movie role.  At about that time, Chaney became a contract player at MGM, where  he would star in a number of highly successful productions, some of which have popped up on Turner Classic Movies.
Based on  Gaston [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pordenone 2009: THE MERRY WIDOW</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/pordenone-2009-the-merry-widow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Mae Murray shows her legs in The Merry Widow

At The Bioscope: Pordenone Film Festival Day I
&#34;The main event, though, is the Erich Von Stroheim version of The Merry Widow (USA 1925), introduced by Leatrice Joy Fountain and featuring a new  orchestral score by Maud Nelissen. The film itself is almost a  checklist of Von’s obsessions; militaria, aristocrats at play, wedding  processions, grotesques, fetishes and matters of honour; how close it  all is to the source material I’m not qualified to say, but it’s a  superior piece of froth; the score, using Lehar lightly but effectively  matched it to perfection. And every new film I see John Gilbert in, my  perception of him changes; [...]]]></description>
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