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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; silent films</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/silent-films/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:29:41 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>THE MUPPETS Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy Ridicule Fox News: Video</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kermit-the-frog-miss-piggy-fox-news-the-muppets/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kermit-the-frog-miss-piggy-fox-news-the-muppets/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:55:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37038</guid> <description><![CDATA[Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy took a well-deserved swipe at Fox News while taking part at a press conference at London's May Fair Hotel this past January 26. Please scroll down to check out the video. A little while ago, Fox Business Channel's Eric Bolling said the following: &#34;The Muppets are back and being terrorized by an evil oil executive in their new movie. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kermit-the-frog-miss-piggy-fox-news-the-muppets/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Michelle Williams, George Clooney, THE ARTIST: National Society of Film Critics Awards Omissions</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/michelle-williams-george-clooney-the-artist-national-society-of-film-critics/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/michelle-williams-george-clooney-the-artist-national-society-of-film-critics/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:06:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=36502</guid> <description><![CDATA[Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon MELANCHOLIA, A SEPARATION Screenplay, Runner-Up Jeannie Berlin: National Society of Film Critics' Surprises Two interesting omissions from the NSFC roster: critics' fave Michelle Williams (for portraying Marilyn Monroe in Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn) and George Clooney (for his stressed out father in Alexander Payne's The Descendants) weren't among the critics' top three actresses/actors. Dunst and Yun [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/michelle-williams-george-clooney-the-artist-national-society-of-film-critics/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Frederica Sagor Pt.3: THE WAY OF ALL FLESH Plagiarism</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/frederica-sagor-autobiography-the-way-of-all-flesh/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/frederica-sagor-autobiography-the-way-of-all-flesh/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:04:25 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=36489</guid> <description><![CDATA[Frederica Sagor Pt.2: Women Screenwriters in 1920s Hollywood [Photo: Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh.] Frederica Sagor's reported final Hollywood screen credit was the scenario for the 1928 slapstick comedy The Farmer's Daughter, directed by Arthur Rosson at Fox. Marjorie Beebe, previously featured in several comedy shorts, had the title role (no relation to Loretta Young's 1947 Oscar-winning Congresswoman-to-be). In her book, Sagor [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/frederica-sagor-autobiography-the-way-of-all-flesh/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Frederica Sagor Pt.2: Women Screenwriters in 1920s Hollywood</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/frederica-sagor-maas-obit-woman-screenwriters-hollywood/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/frederica-sagor-maas-obit-woman-screenwriters-hollywood/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:03:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=36488</guid> <description><![CDATA[Screenwriter Frederica Sagor Dead at 111: Wrote Movies for Norma Shearer (photo), Clara Bow, Louise Brooks Now, whether Frederica Sagor's Hollywood Babylon-like tales bear any resemblance to what actually happened at studio parties and private soirees, I can't tell. But on the professional side, one problem with the information found in The Shocking Miss Pilgrim is that studios invariably used numerous writers, whether male or [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/frederica-sagor-maas-obit-woman-screenwriters-hollywood/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Screenwriter Frederica Sagor Dead at 111: Wrote Movies for Norma Shearer, Clara Bow, Louise Brooks</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/frederica-sagor-maas-screenwriter-death-obit/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/frederica-sagor-maas-screenwriter-death-obit/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:00:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=36486</guid> <description><![CDATA[Frederica Sagor Maas, a Hollywood screenwriter in the 1920s, died January 5 at the Country Villa nursing facility in La Mesa, in the San Diego metropolitan area. She was 111. The daughter of Russian immigrants (one Jewish, one Christian), she was born Frederica Alexandrina Sagor on July 6, 1900, in New York City. According to her autobiography, The Shocking Miss Pilgrim: A Writer in Early [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/frederica-sagor-maas-screenwriter-death-obit/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Rin Tin Tin the First Actual Best Actor Academy Award Winner? Think Again</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rin-tin-tin-the-first-best-actor-academy-award-winner-emil-jannings/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rin-tin-tin-the-first-best-actor-academy-award-winner-emil-jannings/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:05:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=36433</guid> <description><![CDATA[Author Susan Orlean, whose book The Orchid Thief became &#8212; more or less &#8212; director Spike Jonze and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's all but unwatchable Adaptation (Meryl Streep played Orlean), has another book out, Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend, published last September. Today, Deadline's Mike Fleming wrote a piece in which he explains that Orlean &#34;discovered that the true Best Actor winner in [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rin-tin-tin-the-first-best-actor-academy-award-winner-emil-jannings/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Martin Scorsese/HUGO Subject Georges Méliès Movies: Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/georges-melies-hugo-niles-essanay-museum/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/georges-melies-hugo-niles-essanay-museum/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:26:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=36404</guid> <description><![CDATA[Several shorts directed by film pioneer Georges Méliès, played by Ben Kingsley in Martin Scorsese's well-received Hugo, will be featured throughout January 2012 at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum's Edison Theater in Fremont, Calif. The Méliès screenings will be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 7, 21, and 28. On Jan. 7, the Edison Theater will show Méliès' 1910 short The Doctor's Secret prior [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/georges-melies-hugo-niles-essanay-museum/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, John Bunny, George Kuchar: National Film Registry 2011 Movies</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/national-film-registry-movies-glenn-ford-gloria-grahame/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/national-film-registry-movies-glenn-ford-gloria-grahame/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:09:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=36359</guid> <description><![CDATA[Gloria Grahame, The Big Heat FORREST GUMP, BAMBI, THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS: National Film Registry 2011 Movies Besides the aforementioned Hester Street and Norma Rae, women are also at the forefront of Julia Reichert and Jim Klein's Growing Up Female (1971); Chick Strand’s Fake Fruit Factory (1986), a documentary about Mexican women who create ornamental papier-mâché fruits and vegetables; and the recently deceased George [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/national-film-registry-movies-glenn-ford-gloria-grahame/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>PORGY AND BESS, FORREST GUMP, BAMBI, THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS: National Film Registry 2011 Movies</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/porgy-and-bess-forrest-gump-bambi-national-film-registry/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/porgy-and-bess-forrest-gump-bambi-national-film-registry/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:09:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=36358</guid> <description><![CDATA[Best Picture winners The Lost Weekend (1945), Forrest Gump (right, 1994), and The Silence of the Lambs (1991), along with the Walt Disney Studios' animated classic Bambi (1942), Charles Chaplin's silent comedy-drama The Kid (1921), and Howard Hawks' early screwball comedy Twentieth Century (1934) are among the 25 &#34;culturally, historically or aesthetically&#34; significant movies just added to the Library of Congress' National Film Registry. Directed [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/porgy-and-bess-forrest-gump-bambi-national-film-registry/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Meryl Streep Record-Breaking Best Actress Winner: New York Critics 2011 Awards</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/meryl-streep-best-actress-winner-record-new-york-critics/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/meryl-streep-best-actress-winner-record-new-york-critics/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:59:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=36042</guid> <description><![CDATA[Meryl Streep, Anthony Head in Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady The most curious thing about Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist winning the New York Film Critics Circle's Best Film and Best Director awards is that 85 years ago this &#34;innovative&#34; work would have had little-to-no novelty value. It's in black and white, it's (mostly) silent, and it features a handsome, mustached, hammy actor. In that regard, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/meryl-streep-best-actress-winner-record-new-york-critics/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Samuel-Novarro House for Sale: MGM Star Ramon Novarro Architectural Landmark First Owner</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/samuel-novarro-house-ramon-novarro-lloyd-wright/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/samuel-novarro-house-ramon-novarro-lloyd-wright/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:26:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35671</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ramon Novarro swimming in his Los Feliz Hills house Lloyd Wright's Samuel-Novarro House is back in the market, as per Curbed Los Angeles. Located in the Los Feliz Hills, the eastern section of the Hollywood Hills, the house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright's son Lloyd Wright in the late 1920s. In order to pay for Wright's services, personal secretary Louis Samuel embezzled money from [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/samuel-novarro-house-ramon-novarro-lloyd-wright/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Claire Bloom, Julie Harris, Mary Philbin, Jane Wyman: Top Ten Scream Queens</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/claire-bloom-julie-harris-jane-wyman-mary-philbin/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/claire-bloom-julie-harris-jane-wyman-mary-philbin/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 03:13:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35665</guid> <description><![CDATA[Claire Bloom, Julie Harris, The Haunting The Movies’ Top Ten Scream Queens 10 &#8211; Mary Philbin, The Phantom of the Opera (1925). Okay, so this is a silent film; in other words, Universal star Mary Philbin's screaming was all in my head. But it worked. Lon Chaney at his most grotesque had the title role; Norman Kerry was Philbin's dashing leading man. Rupert Julian directed. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/claire-bloom-julie-harris-jane-wyman-mary-philbin/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ramon Novarro Pt.3: Gay Love Affairs Novarro/Valentino/Ingram Unfounded Rumors</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-gay-love-affair-valentino-rumor-rex-ingram/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-gay-love-affair-valentino-rumor-rex-ingram/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:06:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35617</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ramon Novarro, Barbara La Marr, Trifling Women Ramon Novarro Brutal Death Pt.2: Convicted Killer Blames Catholicism Ramon Novarro's extant films for Rex Ingram, The Prisoner of Zenda (1922), in which he plays the sly villain Rupert of Hentzau, and Scaramouche (1923), in the heroic title role, are also well worth a look. I haven't watched The Arab (1924), which has been recently brought back to [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-gay-love-affair-valentino-rumor-rex-ingram/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ramon Novarro Brutal Death Pt.2: Convicted Killer Blamed Catholicism</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-killer-paul-ferguson-ben-hur/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-killer-paul-ferguson-ben-hur/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:06:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35616</guid> <description><![CDATA[Movie Star Ramon Novarro Brutally Killed Halloween Eve 1968 Paul Ferguson, in a letter he wrote me at the time I was working on Beyond Paradise, blamed his Catholic background for Ramon Novarro's death: &#34;When [Novarro] kissed me, I reacted like a Catholic, what they call homosexual panic. Some old guy in the desert says, 'Kill homosexuals.' It's inbred. . . . I was too [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-killer-paul-ferguson-ben-hur/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Movie Star Ramon Novarro Brutally Killed Halloween Eve 1968</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/actor-ramon-novarro-murdered-halloween/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/actor-ramon-novarro-murdered-halloween/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:05:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35620</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ramon Novarro Earlier today, after sharing on Facebook a photo of Greta Garbo dressed in Balinese costume in the 1931 blockbuster Mata Hari, I began thinking about 1920s and 1930s Mexican-born MGM star Ramon Novarro (photo), the subject of the biography I wrote several years back, Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro. Mata Hari was one of the biggest box-office hits in the careers [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/actor-ramon-novarro-murdered-halloween/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Harold Lloyd Leading Lady Barbara Kent Dies</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/harold-lloyd-barbara-kent-welcome-danger-feet-first/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/harold-lloyd-barbara-kent-welcome-danger-feet-first/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:36:55 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35523</guid> <description><![CDATA[Barbara Kent, Harold Lloyd leading lady in WELCOME DANGER/FEET FIRST, has died. Barbara Kent was last silent movie actor alive. Movies include VANITY FAIR, OLIVER TWIST, LONESOME.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/harold-lloyd-barbara-kent-welcome-danger-feet-first/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Barbara Kent Dead at 103: Last Adult Hollywood Silent Film Performer</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/barbara-kent-death-silent-film-actress/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/barbara-kent-death-silent-film-actress/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:36:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35522</guid> <description><![CDATA[Barbara Kent, a minor leading lady during the transition from silent to sound films, died October 13 in Palm Desert, in Southern California. A resident of the local Marrakesh Country Club, Kent was either 103 or 104. No cause of death was given. Barbara Kent was never a star. Not even close. In fact, most of her 35 movies were probably forgotten the week after [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/barbara-kent-death-silent-film-actress/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Long-Unseen Giorgio Moroder-Revamped METROPOLIS to Have North American Screenings</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/giorgio-moroder-metropolis-fritz-lang-restored/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/giorgio-moroder-metropolis-fritz-lang-restored/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 22:23:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35419</guid> <description><![CDATA[Another Metropolis rerelease? As Tea Party favorite Sarah Palin would say, &#34;You Betcha!&#34; (Yikes. Sorry. I just couldn't resist.) As the Kino Lorber press release explains, back in 1981, three-time Academy Award-winning composer Giorgio Moroder (Midnight Express, Flashdance, Top Gun) began a three-year endeavor to restore Fritz Lang's 1927 sci-fi classic, Metropolis. At the time, Moroder came up with a contemporary score for the film [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/giorgio-moroder-metropolis-fritz-lang-restored/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE IRON HORSE, THE KID, UNDERWORLD: Shasta County Silent Film Festival</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-iron-horse-the-kid-underworld-silent-film-festival/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-iron-horse-the-kid-underworld-silent-film-festival/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:19:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35410</guid> <description><![CDATA[Josef von Sternberg, Charles Chaplin, John Ford: Shasta County Silent Film Festival Friday, October 21 6:00 p.m. Angora Love (1929, Laurel &#38; Hardy). Stanley and Oliver are adopted by a runaway goat, whose noise and aroma in turn get the goat of their suspicious landlord. Attempts to bathe the smelly animal result in a waterlogged free-for-all. Pass the Gravy (1928, Max Davidson). Max Davidson plays [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-iron-horse-the-kid-underworld-silent-film-festival/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Josef von Sternberg, Charles Chaplin, John Ford: Shasta County Silent Film Festival</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/josef-von-sternberg-charles-chaplin-john-ford-film-fest/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/josef-von-sternberg-charles-chaplin-john-ford-film-fest/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:19:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35409</guid> <description><![CDATA[The 6th Annual Silent Film Festival at Shasta County, Calif., to be held October 21-22 at the Shasta County Arts Council's Performance Hall, will feature an eclectic group of silent-movie classics. Those range from Josef von Sternberg's crime drama Underworld (1927) to Carl Theodor Dreyer's marital drama Master of the House (1925). [Full schedule of the Shasta County Silent Film Fest.] Also: Rin Tin Tin [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/josef-von-sternberg-charles-chaplin-john-ford-film-fest/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Silent ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT: TCM Library of Congress Tribute</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/all-quiet-on-the-western-front-silent-neil-hamilton/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/all-quiet-on-the-western-front-silent-neil-hamilton/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:51:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35264</guid> <description><![CDATA[Joan Fontaine-Charles Boyer in Rare THE CONSTANT NYMPH on TCM. [Photo: Miriam Jordan, Neil Hamilton in Two Heads on a Pillow.] Besides the Edmund Goulding-directed Joan Fontaine-Charles Boyer-Alexis Smith movie The Constant Nymph, other Library of Congress Film Archive entries on Turner Classic Movies tonight include Two Heads on a Pillow (1934), a B comedy directed by William Nigh, an important late silent-era director (Lon [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/all-quiet-on-the-western-front-silent-neil-hamilton/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE GOOSE WOMAN Review: Louise Dresser, Jack Pickford, Constance Bennett d: Clarence Brown</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-goose-woman-louise-dresser-clarence-brown/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-goose-woman-louise-dresser-clarence-brown/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:56:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35139</guid> <description><![CDATA[THE GOOSE WOMAN (1925) Direction: Clarence Brown Cast: Louise Dresser, Jack Pickford, Constance Bennett, Marc McDermott, George Nichols, Gustav von Seyffertitz Screenplay: Melville W. Brown, titles by Dwinelle Benthall; from Rex Beach's story Highly Recommended Louise Dresser, Jack Pickford, The Goose Woman At the 2011 San Francisco Silent Film Festival, the Clarence Brown-directed 1925 Universal release The Goose Woman was introduced by author and film [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-goose-woman-louise-dresser-clarence-brown/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Claudette Colbert, Alla Nazimova, Marion Davies, Charles Boyer: Cinecon 2011</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/claudette-colbert-alla-nazimova-marion-davies-charles-boyer/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/claudette-colbert-alla-nazimova-marion-davies-charles-boyer/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 00:04:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27675</guid> <description><![CDATA[Director Allan Dwan, actor George O'Brien, cinematographer George Webber, East Side, West Side Are you a movie lover in Los Angeles, unable to travel either to Venice or Telluride? Don't despair. L.A. has its own glamorous film festival this weekend. It's called Cinecon, now in its 47th year. What's more: unlike the vast majority of movies screening at the more highly publicized Venice and Telluride [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/claudette-colbert-alla-nazimova-marion-davies-charles-boyer/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE BLIZZARD Review: Einar Hanson, Mary Johnson d: Mauritz Stiller</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-blizzard-mauritz-stiller-einar-hanson-mary-johnson/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-blizzard-mauritz-stiller-einar-hanson-mary-johnson/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:04:20 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27621</guid> <description><![CDATA[GUNNAR HEDES SAGA / THE BLIZZARD (1923) Direction: Mauritz Stiller Cast: Einar Hanson, Mary Johnson, Stina Berg, Hugo Björne, Pauline Brunius Screenplay: Mauritz Stiller; from Selma Lagerlöf's novel Recommended with Reservations Mary Johnson, Einar Hanson, The Blizzard Directed by Mauritz Stiller, the Swedish drama Gunnar Hedes saga / The Blizzard tells the confusing story about how a reindeer stampede affected the life of a violin [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-blizzard-mauritz-stiller-einar-hanson-mary-johnson/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>HUCKLEBERRY FINN Review: Lewis Sargent d: William Desmond Taylor</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/huckleberry-finn-review-william-desmond-taylor/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/huckleberry-finn-review-william-desmond-taylor/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 02:01:54 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27617</guid> <description><![CDATA[HUCKLEBERRY FINN (1920) Direction: William Desmond Taylor Cast: Lewis Sargent, George Reed, Katherine Griffith, Frank Lanning, Gordon Griffith, Esther Ralston, Edythe Chapman, Martha Mattox Screenplay: Julia Crawford Ivers; from Mark Twain's novel Recommended with Reservations Lewis Sargent in William Desmond Taylor's Huckleberry Finn Directed by William Desmond Taylor, Huckleberry Finn stars a fresh, freckle-faced Lewis Sargent as Huck. (Sargent was also featured in another 1920 [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/huckleberry-finn-review-william-desmond-taylor/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Conrad Veidt on TCM: THE HANDS OF ORLAC, CASABLANCA, NAZI AGENT</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/conrad-veidt-the-hands-of-orlac-casablanca/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/conrad-veidt-the-hands-of-orlac-casablanca/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:54:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27619</guid> <description><![CDATA[Conrad Veidt is Turner Classic Movies' &#34;Summer Under the Stars&#34; performer of the day. An international star since the 1920s, Veidt worked in Germany, the United Kingdom, and Hollywood &#8212; twice. [Conrad Veidt Movie Schedule.] In the late '20s, Veidt was the star of unusual Hollywood fare such as Paul Leni's The Man Who Laughs (1928), in the title role as a man with a [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/conrad-veidt-the-hands-of-orlac-casablanca/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Lon Chaney Movie Schedule: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, TELL IT TO THE MARINES, MR. WU</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lon-chaney-movie-the-phantom-of-the-opera-mr-wu/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lon-chaney-movie-the-phantom-of-the-opera-mr-wu/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 07:20:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27591</guid> <description><![CDATA[Lon Chaney on TCM: HE WHO GETS SLAPPED, THE UNKNOWN, MR. WU Get ready for more extreme perversity in West of Zanzibar (1928), as Chaney abuses both Warner Baxter and Mary Nolan, while the great-looking Mr. Wu (1927) offers Chaney as a Chinese creep about to destroy the life of lovely Renée Adorée &#8212; one of the best and prettiest actresses of the 1920s. Adorée [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lon-chaney-movie-the-phantom-of-the-opera-mr-wu/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Lon Chaney on TCM: HE WHO GETS SLAPPED, THE UNKNOWN, THE UNHOLY THREE</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lon-chaney-he-who-gets-slapped-the-unknown/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lon-chaney-he-who-gets-slapped-the-unknown/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 07:20:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27590</guid> <description><![CDATA[Lon Chaney, He Who Gets Slapped Lon Chaney is one of the most fascinating movie stars in film history. Throughout the 1920s, Chaney was one the biggest box-office draws the world over despite what could kindly be described as an unhandsome face &#8212; one that was often disguised by heavy layers of makeup to make him look ancient, deformed, Chinese, female, etc. His roles usually [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lon-chaney-he-who-gets-slapped-the-unknown/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ronald Colman on TCM: A TALE OF TWO CITIES, KIKI, RANDOM HARVEST</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ronald-colman-a-tale-of-two-cities-kiki/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ronald-colman-a-tale-of-two-cities-kiki/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:15:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27512</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ronald Colman, A Tale of Two Cities Ronald Colman is Turner Classic Movies &#34;Summer Under the Stars&#34; performer on Thursday, August 4. One of the finest film actors ever, at ease in both heavy drama and light comedy, Ronald Colman will have his extensive career represented by 13 films. Among those are three TCM premieres: the silent comedies Kiki (1926) and Her Night of Romance [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ronald-colman-a-tale-of-two-cities-kiki/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Found Film NOT Alfred Hitchcock&#039;s First</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-woman-to-woman-betty-compson/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-woman-to-woman-betty-compson/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 23:51:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27508</guid> <description><![CDATA[Betty Compson, Clive Brook, Woman to Woman Despite some confusion in various reports, the 1923 melodrama The White Shadow, half of which was recently found at the New Zealand Film Archive, is not Alfred Hitchcock's directorial debut. It isn't Hitchcock's first ever credited effort, either. That honor apparently belongs to Woman to Woman, which came out earlier that same year. The White Shadow, in fact, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-woman-to-woman-betty-compson/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Alfred Hitchcock&#039;s Early (Non-Directorial Effort) THE WHITE SHADOW Found</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-the-white-shadow-found-new-zealand/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-the-white-shadow-found-new-zealand/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 23:50:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27507</guid> <description><![CDATA[Betty Compson, The White Shadow About thirty minutes from the long thought-lost The White Shadow / White Shadows (1923), believed to be the earliest surviving feature with an Alfred Hitchcock credit, has been unearthed at the New Zealand Film Archive. Directed by Graham Cutts, and starring Betty Compson and Clive Brook, The White Shadow was found among a number of unidentified American nitrate prints safeguarded [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-the-white-shadow-found-new-zealand/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Janet Gaynor-Charles Farrell 7TH HEAVEN, Fragment of Lost Academy Award Winner THE PATRIOT Screening</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/janet-gaynor-charles-farrell-7th-heaven-the-patriot/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/janet-gaynor-charles-farrell-7th-heaven-the-patriot/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 06:59:51 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27497</guid> <description><![CDATA[Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, 7th Heaven Frank Borzage's 7th Heaven, starring late '20s lovebirds Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, was the 1927 Photoplay Magazine Medal of Honor winner and will thus be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Summer of Silents” series on Monday, August 1, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The 7th [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/janet-gaynor-charles-farrell-7th-heaven-the-patriot/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Amazing Tales from the Archives: Orphan Films at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/amazing-tales-from-the-archives-orphan-films-san-francisco-silent-film-festival/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/amazing-tales-from-the-archives-orphan-films-san-francisco-silent-film-festival/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:41:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27438</guid> <description><![CDATA[Eugen Illés' The Fall of Jerusalem The 16th San Francisco Silent Film Festival first morning program, &#34;Amazing Tales from the Archives &#8211; The Archivist As Detective,&#34; presented the many problems identifying &#34;Orphan Films&#34; &#8212; unlabeled pieces of footage discovered in vaults or estates. The first example of such an orphan film was an excerpt from a movie determined to be Eugen Illés' 1922 German period [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/amazing-tales-from-the-archives-orphan-films-san-francisco-silent-film-festival/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Arabs in Hollywood Movies on TCM: THE THIEF OF BAGDAD, THE SHEIK</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/arabs-hollywood-movies-the-thief-of-bagdad-the-sheik/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/arabs-hollywood-movies-the-thief-of-bagdad-the-sheik/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 02:21:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27351</guid> <description><![CDATA[Rudolph Valentino, Agnes Ayres in George Melford's The Sheik Long before they became Hollywood's favorite terrorists, Arabs were generally portrayed as lusty, uncouth, infantile beings in myriad Hollywood movies. Turner Classic Movies returns this month with their annual &#34;Race &#38; Hollywood&#34; film series. The &#34;race&#34; this time around: Arabs. Frank Lloyd's long but generally entertaining 1924 epic The Sea Hawk is almost over. TCM has [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/arabs-hollywood-movies-the-thief-of-bagdad-the-sheik/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Douglas Fairbanks&#039; ROBIN HOOD Academy Screening</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/douglas-fairbanks-robin-hood/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/douglas-fairbanks-robin-hood/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 23:11:16 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27330</guid> <description><![CDATA[Enid Bennett, Douglas Fairbanks, Robin Hood Long before Errol Flynn, Russell Crowe, and Kevin Costner &#8212; and their Men in Tights &#8212; there was Douglas Fairbanks and his Men in Tights. Robin Hood, aka Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood will be screening tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The Robin Hood screening [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/douglas-fairbanks-robin-hood/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Victor Sjöström on TCM: THE SCARLET LETTER, WILD STRAWBERRIES</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/victor-sjostrom-the-scarlet-letter-wild-strawberries/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/victor-sjostrom-the-scarlet-letter-wild-strawberries/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 02:19:51 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27322</guid> <description><![CDATA[Lillian Gish in Victor Sjöström's The Scarlet Letter Considering that religious puritans (and their politically correct cohorts) continue to plague the world at the beginning of the third millennium, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter remains as relevant today as when it was first published in 1850. This evening, Turner Classic Movies is presenting MGM's 1926 film version of Hawthorne's story about sex, love, and the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/victor-sjostrom-the-scarlet-letter-wild-strawberries/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Alexander Payne, Kevin Brownlow, Leonard Maltin: San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2011</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alexander-payne-kevin-brownlow-sf-silent-film/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alexander-payne-kevin-brownlow-sf-silent-film/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:18:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27256</guid> <description><![CDATA[George O'Brien, Margaret Livingston in F. W. Murnau's Sunrise Election and Sideways director Alexander Payne, whose The Descendants is scheduled to open later this year, will be a guest presenter at the 2011 San Francisco Silent Film Festival (SFSFF). According to the SF Silent Film Festival's press release, Payne &#34;grew up watching silent films that he sent away for from the Blackhawk Films collection.&#34; Payne [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alexander-payne-kevin-brownlow-sf-silent-film/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>BLOOD AND SAND Review &#8211; Rudolph Valentino, Nita Naldi, Lila Lee</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/blood-and-sand-rudolph-valentino-nita-naldi/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/blood-and-sand-rudolph-valentino-nita-naldi/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:06:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27244</guid> <description><![CDATA[BLOOD AND SAND (1922) Direction: Fred Niblo Cast: Rudolph Valentino, Lila Lee, Nita Naldi, Rosa Rosanova, Walter Long, Charles Belcher, Leo White, Rosita Marstini Screenplay: June Mathis; from Vicente Blasco Ibáñez's novel, and Tom Cushing's play Recommended Rudolph Valentino, Nita Naldi, Blood and Sand Bullfighting has never appealed to me, so I approached Fred Niblo's Blood and Sand with caution. Now that I've seen it, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/blood-and-sand-rudolph-valentino-nita-naldi/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Marlene Dietrich, Douglas Fairbanks, Janet Gaynor, Lon Chaney: San Francisco Silent Film Festival</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/marlene-dietrich-san-francisco-silent-film-festival/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/marlene-dietrich-san-francisco-silent-film-festival/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 23:59:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27137</guid> <description><![CDATA[Marlene Dietrich in Kurt Bernhardt's The Woman Men Yearn For Among the silent-film classics to be featured at this year's San Francisco Silent Film Festival are Victor Sjöström's He Who Gets Slapped (1924), starring Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, and John Gilbert in the newly founded MGM studios' first production; five-time Oscar nominee Clarence Brown's The Goose Woman (1925), starring Louise Dresser and Constance Bennett, and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/marlene-dietrich-san-francisco-silent-film-festival/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Donald Krim Dead at 65: President of Kino International (METROPOLIS, OLD JOY, THE PIANO TEACHER)</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/donald-krim-death-kino-international/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/donald-krim-death-kino-international/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 23:44:44 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27104</guid> <description><![CDATA[Donald Krim, the President of DVD and film distributor Kino International and co-President of the recently formed Kino Lorber, died today at his New York home following a year-long battle with cancer. He was 65. As head of Kino International since 1977, Krim, who discovered the magic of movies after watching Disney's Cinderella in 1950, helped to introduce some of the world's most respected filmmakers [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/donald-krim-death-kino-international/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Mary Pickford&#039;s M&#039;LISS Screening at Pickford Institute</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/mary-pickford-mliss-joseph-yranski-pickford-institute/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/mary-pickford-mliss-joseph-yranski-pickford-institute/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 06:10:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27020</guid> <description><![CDATA[Theodore Roberts, Mary Pickford in Marshall Neilan's M'Liss; smaller photo: Joseph Yranski Mary Pickford was the definition of Movie Superstar from the early 1910s to the late 1920s. So popular and so powerful was Pickford that she, along with Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin, and D.W. Griffith, founded United Artists so as to have fuller artistic and financial control over her cinematic endeavors. Several years later, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/mary-pickford-mliss-joseph-yranski-pickford-institute/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE LOVE OF JEANNE NEY Review d: G. W. Pabst</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-love-of-jeanne-ney-g-w-pabst-edith-jehanne/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-love-of-jeanne-ney-g-w-pabst-edith-jehanne/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 23:32:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26970</guid> <description><![CDATA[DIE LIEBE DER JEANNE NEY / THE LOVE OF JEANNE NEY (1927) Direction: G. W. Pabst Cast: Edith Jehanne, Uno Henning, Fritz Rasp, Brigitte Helm, Adolf Edgar Licho, Eugen Hensen, Sig Arno, Vladimir Sokoloff Screenplay: Ladislaus Vajda, Rudolf Leonhardt; from a novel by Ilja Ehrenburg Recommended Uno Henning, Edith Jehanne, The Love of Jeanne Ney G. W. Pabst's Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney / The [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-love-of-jeanne-ney-g-w-pabst-edith-jehanne/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Barbra Streisand-Jack Nicholson Duet, GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES: Phil Hall&#039;s 50 Notable Lost Films Pt.2</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/barbra-streisand-jack-nicholson-lost-films/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/barbra-streisand-jack-nicholson-lost-films/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:24:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26888</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jack Nicholson, Barbra Streisand in Vincente Minnelli's On a Clear Day You Can See Forever At Film Threat, Phil Hall comes up with a follow-up to his 2008 article about important lost films. Among the 50 titles on Hall's highly eclectic new list are a version of Carmen (1915) starring Fox vamp Theda Bara; The Life of General Villa (1914), in which Mexican revolutionary Pancho [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/barbra-streisand-jack-nicholson-lost-films/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar Winner Emil Jannings, Theda Bara, Lon Chaney, Clara Bow in Color: FRAGMENTS on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/emil-jannings-theda-bara-lon-chaney-clara-bow-color-fragments/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/emil-jannings-theda-bara-lon-chaney-clara-bow-color-fragments/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 23:14:31 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26797</guid> <description><![CDATA[Emil Jannings in Victor Fleming's The Way of All Flesh The final reel of John Ford’s The Village Blacksmith (1922), featuring Virginia Valli; Best Actor Oscar winner Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh (1927); screen legends Douglas Fairbanks in He Comes Up Smiling (1918), Theda Bara in Cleopatra (1917), and Lon Chaney in The Miracle Man (1919); the early sound, Technicolor musical Gold [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/emil-jannings-theda-bara-lon-chaney-clara-bow-color-fragments/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Norma Talmadge, Constance Talmadge, Colleen Moore: The Silent Society&#039;s 25th Anniversary Movie Marathon</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/norma-talmadge-constance-talmadge-colleen-moore-viola-dana/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/norma-talmadge-constance-talmadge-colleen-moore-viola-dana/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:05:19 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26785</guid> <description><![CDATA[Colleen Moore in Alfred E. Green's Ella Cinders (top); Mabel Normand (bottom) The Silent Society of Hollywood Heritage will be celebrating its 25th anniversary in the company of silent-era superstars Norma Talmadge, Constance Talmadge, Colleen Moore, Viola Dana, and Mabel Normand. Never heard of them? Never seen them? Well, that's your loss. A loss that can be rectified on Saturday, April 2, at the Hollywood [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/norma-talmadge-constance-talmadge-colleen-moore-viola-dana/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Rudolph Valentino Birthday Celebration at Hollywood Heritage Museum</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rudolph-valentino-blood-and-sand-hollywood-heritage-museum/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rudolph-valentino-blood-and-sand-hollywood-heritage-museum/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 06:32:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26782</guid> <description><![CDATA[Rudolph Valentino, Blood and Sand Hollywood Heritage will celebrate Rudolph Valentino's birthday on Wednesday, May 11. The event will include screenings of the abridged version of Blood and Sand (1922) and the short Rudolph Valentino and His 88 American Beauties; rare photographs and artifacts on display in the lobby of the Hollywood Heritage Museum; and the presence of Donna Hill, author of Rudolph Valentino, The [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rudolph-valentino-blood-and-sand-hollywood-heritage-museum/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Rex Ingram: THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE, THE MAGICIAN, THE GARDEN OF ALLAH</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/rex-ingram/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/rex-ingram/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:18:11 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16375</guid> <description><![CDATA[Rex Ingram directing Scaramouche (top); Henri Matisse, Rex Ingram (middle); Rex Ingram, the actor-director, with off-screen girlfriend Rosita Garcia in Baroud (bottom) Rex Ingram Part I In Beyond Paradise, I wrote that "Ingram's unquestionable talent was matched only by his arrogance, fiery temperament, and lack of respect for authority." Indeed, those qualities were his undoing. A couple of years after his falling out with June [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/rex-ingram/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Rex Ingram: Launched Rudolph Valentino, Ramon Novarro</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/rex-ingram-remembered/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/rex-ingram-remembered/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:16:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=307</guid> <description><![CDATA[Rex Ingram (top); Barbara La Marr, Ramon Novarro, in Ingram's Trifling Women (bottom) St. Patrick's Day always reminds me of silent-era filmmaker Rex Ingram, among whose silent-era efforts are The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Prisoner of Zenda, Scaramouche, Mare Nostrum, The Magician, and The Garden of Allah, and whose birth &#8212; as Reginald Ingram Montgomery Hitchcock &#8212; took place in Dublin on Jan. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/rex-ingram-remembered/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE PHANTOM PRESIDENT, GLORIOUS BETSY, STOLEN HEAVEN: Cinefest 2011 Schedule</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-phantom-president-glorious-betsy-stolen-heaven-cinefest-2011-schedule/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-phantom-president-glorious-betsy-stolen-heaven-cinefest-2011-schedule/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 04:53:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26679</guid> <description><![CDATA[Nancy Carroll Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins, Gloria Swanson: Cinefest 2011 Note: Titles subject to change without notice. Thursday, March 17 9:00am &#8211; THE IDOL OF SEVILLE (1932) with Rene Denny 9:25am &#8211; FORGOTTEN COMMANDMENTS (1932) with Gene Raymond 10:50am &#8211; GLORIOUS BETSY (1928) with Dolores Costello LUNCH BREAK 1:00pm &#8211; TRAILER MANIA 3 &#8211; &#34;Through the Years With Columbia,&#34; Hosted by Ray Faiola 2:00pm &#8211; [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-phantom-president-glorious-betsy-stolen-heaven-cinefest-2011-schedule/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins, Gloria Swanson: Cinefest 2011</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/claudette-colbert-miriam-hopkins-gloria-swanson-cinefest-2011/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/claudette-colbert-miriam-hopkins-gloria-swanson-cinefest-2011/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 04:52:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26678</guid> <description><![CDATA[William Gargan, Miriam Hopkins, Jack La Rue in Stephen Roberts' The Story of Temple Drake Cinefest 2011, a four-day festival of rare American films, kicked off earlier today in Syracuse, NY. According to organizers, Cinefest features &#34;great films &#8230; from the vaults of the world's greatest libraries and obscure specialties we are noted for from private collectors!&#34; [Cinefest 2011 schedule.] Among the highlights at this [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/claudette-colbert-miriam-hopkins-gloria-swanson-cinefest-2011/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
