John Boles. Actor & singer John Boles remembered On March 4, Turner Classic Movies is remembering actor-singer John Boles, a name that even the majority of film historians and connoisseurs…
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San Francisco Silent Film Festival highlights include hand-tinted color fantasies by Segundo de Chomón and Louis Feuillade in the days before Technicolor.
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Carla Laemmle. ‘Dracula’ 1931 actress Carla Laemmle dead at 104 Carla Laemmle, a bit player in a handful of silent movies and at the dawn of the sound era –…
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Rare movies: Director Allan Dwan, actor George O’Brien, cinematographer George Webber on the set of East Side West Side Are you a movie lover in Los Angeles, unable to travel…
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Desert Nights: Enjoyable John Gilbert Sahara adventure dares to ask old philosophical question. Mary Nolan bathes naked and Ernest Torrence steals show.
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Castro Theatre special screenings: ‘Haunted house’ horror-comedy The Cat and the Canary + Oscar-winning Sunrise + unique Soviet comedy A Kiss from Mary Pickford On Valentine’s Day 2009, Feb. 14,…
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Jack Neely’s “The Forgotten Director: Who was Clarence Brown?” at Metro Pulse: “Dr. Gwenda Young, a film-studies professor at University College Cork, came across [Clarence] Brown by an unlikely route.…
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The Barker with Dorothy Mackaill and Milton Sills. Among the good & rarities screened at the UCLA Film and Television Archive Festival of Preservation (website) was a restored print of…
Michelle Bonev-Silvio Berlusconi Venice Film Festival controversy plus showings of risque Louise Brooks silent and history-making Jessica Tandy Oscar winner.
Janet Gaynor and George O’Brien in Sunrise, an early Academy Award winner directed by F. W. Murnau. Berlin Film Festival: Women in Silent Films The Retrospective sidebar of the 2007…