Film Friday | Weekly Roundup

It’s been a fine week for silent film fans. The Oscar nominees for Best Picture include not only a movie about silent movies with Hugo, but also include an actual silent movie. Now we all need to put on our black turtle necks and adopt a disaffected air to assure everyone that we liked silent movies before they were popular. Of course, I’m sure that Hollywood studios are rushing out to option more silent movies, because that’s how this works right? This is the end of the talkies, right? Meh, probably not but let’s make hay while the sun shines, mon cheries. And let’s get down to it with the Film Friday Weekly Roundup. Happy reading and happy viewing!

• Spectacular Attractions let’s you “Build Your Own Review: The Artist“
• Sometimes the life of an artist is spectacular but brief, like a shooting star. Thus, Uggie retires.
• The guy who voiced the “Lost in Space” robot has gone to that eternal planet in the sky
• I hate the Oscars, yet I always get sucked in. The Movie Morlocks examine the “Three Faces of the Oscars.”
• Confessions of a Film Philistine reviews one of my all-time fav sci-fi schlock films, Them!
• Dying to know what silent films they watch in New Jersey? NorthJersey.com provides a helpful guide.
• Surely you saw Morris Lessmore. Oh, and there’s an app for that.

• In case you missed it, The Artist got an Oscar nom or two. The cast didn’t miss the announcements:

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