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Topic: What Films did you show last night?
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Dino Everette
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1535
From: Long Beach, CA USA
Registered: Dec 2008
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posted April 25, 2011 02:13 AM
Spent the last two nights playing gigs, with last night being the best, including a short set I played w/ my friend Roy on drums, Stevie from the Devil Dogs on guitar, and Yoshiko from the 5678's on guitar and vocals. The only one forum members might know is Yoshiko because her main band is the band in Kill Bill...There's a video on youtube PEARL SWARTZ
To counter the modern rock I had a 16mm western themed night for Easter, don't ask me why that made sense to me, but it did..... Started with a new acquisition an episode of the Steve McQueen TV show WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE--DEATH DIVIDED BY THREE (1960)with guest star Mara Corday as a cold blooded killer, followed by a Trailblazers feature entitled DEATH VALLEY RANGERS (1943) starring the best of the west, Ken Maynard, Hoot Gibson, and Bob Steele...Fun movies, and a fun weekend...The TV show was a nice original print with a few splices, but overall good condition...The feature was sold on ebay as an original but was a dupe, however I only paid $15 for the film so I was happy with it..
-------------------- "You're too Far Out Miss Lawrence"
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Panayotis A. Carayannis
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 969
From: Athens,Greece
Registered: Jul 2008
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posted April 25, 2011 06:32 AM
On Tuesday we saw, at a friend's, Luccino Visconti's masterpiece documentary, LA TERRA TREMA in a good 16 mm print. I had never seen it before and was stunned by its starkness, beautifully photographed. The life of poor sicilian fishermen and their vain try to avoid the wholesalers and start business on their own,is justifiably a classic. It is spoken in the sicilian dialect without subtitles,with only partial narration in "formal" italian. Chez moi, on Good Friday and against the mood of the day,another silent comedy night with several recent acquisitions... Milton(!) Morante in THREE FACES WEST ('27) (Dino ) Big Boy in SHAMROCK ALLEY ('27) Syd Saylor in a "Let George Do It" comedy that may be GEORGE'S IN LOVE. I am not sure as the print has dutch intertitles that roughly translate as "Looking for Nelly". In it,George comes to the big city with only a photograph of Nelly, looking to find her and gets tangled with crooks,good time girls and cops.The film includes an unusual overhead shot from the ceiling of the room where George and the bad guy fight. Snooky the "Humanzee" in A TRAY FULL OF TROUBLE ('20). FOLLOW THE LEADER ('28) "A Fox Animal Comedy",this is another Our Gang clone with Leon Holmes working hard in his father's farm and in the second reel joining his gang,residing in a Boys' School presided over by big Blanche Payson.
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Thomas Murin, Jr.
Master Film Handler
Posts: 260
From: Lanoka Harbor, NJ, USA
Registered: Sep 2009
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posted April 28, 2011 10:57 PM
Steve, you're probably correct in my 1776 print being a school print. It bears all the marks of having been constantly started and stopped.
Still, I've been after a print of this movie for nearly a year and rejected several for various reasons. While this print may be a little beat up, the color is perfect throughout.
After checking my laserdisc, there is less missing footage than I thought so I can live with what's missing.
The print has a good home now and won't be abused by history teachers anymore!
Also, agree on the actors in this movie. VERY hard to picture Adams, Franklin, or Jefferson or any of the others without this movie popping up in your mind!
-------------------- My crummy Deviant Art account. Read my poetic tribute to the internet comic strip Ozy & Millie and view my crappy attempts at art.
http://cougartiger.deviantart.com/
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Dino Everette
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1535
From: Long Beach, CA USA
Registered: Dec 2008
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posted May 01, 2011 02:44 AM
Watched a few films the last 2 nights, and went to see Scream 4 this after noon...Friday night I watched THE DUEL (1928, 3 x 300ft notched pathe 9.5mm)This is a French film that was clearly influenced by WINGS, with similar looking flying sequences, and a story line that resembles the love triangle narrative only without the war angle, which ultimately makes the dogfight in Duel seem a bit extreme..I was happy to see Gabriel Gabrio as one of the leads, as he is in one of my other favorite 9.5 French films Antoinette Sabrier...Speaking of war tonight I watched a 16mm feature CHINA GATE (1957, B/W 3 x 1600 adapted scope)which was written, directed and produced by Sam Fuller and shared many of the great elements found in his earlier film Steel Helmet by focusing mainly on the characters. Leave it to Sam Fuller to cast Nat King Cole (alongside leads Gene Barry and Angie Dickinson)in a straight dramatic role, but also manage to have him sing within the diegesis..A very underrated film..
-------------------- "You're too Far Out Miss Lawrence"
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