Archive for 2011
Film Friday | Weekly Roundup
Today is the Film Friday Weekly Roundup very late afternoon edition. Why is Pretty Clever Film Gal so late today? Because she forgot it was Friday! Part of the magic of the holiday season is that you completely lose track of time, forget what day of the week it is, and generally feel life is [...]
Film Friday | Weekly Roundup
Pretty Clever Film Gal’s got nothing this week. I didn’t scour the web so you don’t have to. Hey, it’s the ramp up to the big Christmas Day, which involves decking the halls, procuring a grain-fed, free-range turkey, and fighting the crowds to get the last fuzzy, polar bear shaped card at Shopper’s Drug Mart. [...]
Bah Humbug!… It’s a Silent Movie “A Christmas Carol”, Times Four
Watching a movie adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is always the warning shot fired over the bow of Christmas for me. It doesn’t really matter which movie version it is, and there are so so many of them, this classic Victorian Christmas tale confirms that it’s time to prepare the milk and cookies [...]
Sherlock Holmes, 1900 Style
You probably read the stories as a kid. Maybe you caught an old flick with Basil Rathbone as Holmes on late night tv. Maybe you queued up at the cineplex in 2009 for Guy Ritchie’s fast-paced modern adaptation. Maybe you just passed the weekend with Ritchie’s sequel Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. No matter [...]
Fact or Film Snobbery?
It’s been fun to spectate all of this renewed interest in the medium of silent film. Just as the interest has shined a light into the flickering-shadow filled caves of film nerds, it has also served as an invitation for rampant film snobbery. And hey, I enjoy all these articles and blips and clips that [...]
Film Friday | Weekly Roundup
It’s time again for the Film Friday Weekly Roundup… Ssshh! It’s the (almost) completely silent edition. As Hugo storms the screens and The Artist continues to pile up the critical nods, silent films are all over the place. Now let’s all put on our thrift store cardigans and lace up our Converse and say we [...]
Silence was Golden in Cinema from The Telegraph
Ye gods, people! There’s a lot of silent cinema interest and nostalgia floating around these days, thanks to Hugo and The Artists. Some of I agree with, some of it is silly, some of it is blatant coat-tail riding. But this piece from The Telegraph, “Too late, we realise that silence was golden in the [...]
Buster Keaton and the Uses of Illusion
I often think very deep thoughts about Buster Keaton’s early stage life in vaudeville and then I get deep thought fatigue and go have some cookies. But really, there’s a lot to be said about how Keaton’s early stage experience prepared him for the moment he met a movie camera. For instance, doesn’t Buster Keaton’s [...]
Film Friday | Weekly Roundup
Pretty Clever Film Gal tried to visit her favorite pool hall last night (yeah, so what?) and found it full of people dressed in business casual, wearing name tags and eating chicken on a stick. What in the ?!?… oh right, it must be holiday office party season. Nothing says office party like chicken on [...]
Film Friday | Weekly Roundup
Pretty Clever Film Gal is still struggling with the plague but crawling along the road to recovery. Thankfully, there was much to entertain and divert this week, what with the return of Bobby O. to TCM and the silent film bonanza sparked by Hugo and The Artists. It feels like a fine time to care [...]
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