Looking back over the year at what films moved and impressed us, it is clear that watching old films is a crucial part of making new films meaningful. Thus, the annual tradition of our end of year poll, which calls upon our writers to pick both a new and an old film: they were challenged to choose a new film they saw in 2013—in theaters or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they also saw in 2013 to create a unique double feature.
All the contributors were given the option to write some text explaining their 2013 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative film programming we'd be lucky to catch in that perfect world we know doesn't exist but can keep dreaming of every time we go to the movies.
How...
All the contributors were given the option to write some text explaining their 2013 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative film programming we'd be lucky to catch in that perfect world we know doesn't exist but can keep dreaming of every time we go to the movies.
How...
- 1/13/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
In conjunction with the LUMIÈRE publication of the free downloadable e-book "Allan Dwan: A Dossier," we present a new video series, An Allan Dwan Serial. The serial is a continuous selection of clips from the career of the one and only Allan Dwan, an engineering director whose broad filmography connects in beautiful and unexpected ways.
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Download "Allan Dwan: A Dossier" to read Maxime Renaudin's piece on Stage Struck.
See Stage Struck on film (the print is amazing!) at New York's Museum of Modern Art on June 18, 2013 at 4:30pm, or on June 19, 2013 at 8:00pm.
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Download "Allan Dwan: A Dossier" to read Maxime Renaudin's piece on Stage Struck.
See Stage Struck on film (the print is amazing!) at New York's Museum of Modern Art on June 18, 2013 at 4:30pm, or on June 19, 2013 at 8:00pm.
- 6/19/2013
- by gina telaroli
- MUBI
Above: Calendar Girl (1947) / Pearl of the South Pacific (1955) / Frontier Marshal (1939)
Last October, my co-editor David Phelps and I released our first self-published e-book out into the world. It was entitled William A. Wellman: A Dossier, and after the somewhat life-changing experience we had discovering Wellman's films during his Film Forum retrospective, we were happy to have discovered a format that would allow us to curate, create, and share an anthology of criticism centered on Wellman's work.
After the release, David and I found ourselves contemplating what to do next, and our thoughts soon brought us back to a night when we screened Allan Dwan's Cattle Queen of Montana (1954), a Western unlike any Western we had seen. A movie that on paper is a simple genre exercise about a vengeful woman trying to regain her land and cattle but in practice is about how different people and events fill...
Last October, my co-editor David Phelps and I released our first self-published e-book out into the world. It was entitled William A. Wellman: A Dossier, and after the somewhat life-changing experience we had discovering Wellman's films during his Film Forum retrospective, we were happy to have discovered a format that would allow us to curate, create, and share an anthology of criticism centered on Wellman's work.
After the release, David and I found ourselves contemplating what to do next, and our thoughts soon brought us back to a night when we screened Allan Dwan's Cattle Queen of Montana (1954), a Western unlike any Western we had seen. A movie that on paper is a simple genre exercise about a vengeful woman trying to regain her land and cattle but in practice is about how different people and events fill...
- 6/4/2013
- by gina telaroli
- MUBI
The third Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema - which opened with contemporary crowd-pleaser The Artist on Wednesday, kicked off a weekend of classics last night with a gala performance of Gloria Swanson's 1925 romantic comedy Stage Struck.
While Swanson is probably most familiar to modern audiences as the bitter and washed-up star of Billie Wilder's Sunset Blvd, which is currently touring the UK courtesy of a restored Park Circus print, Stage Struck sees her at the other end of the spectrum - as put-upon waitress Jenny, who longs to become an actress in the hopes of impressing her would-be sweetheart, diner wheat-cake flipper Orme (Lawrence Gray).
The film is a feel-good mix of charm and sight gags, with early scenes in the crowded diner giving Swanson a chance to shine at slapstick, while the opening sequence - shot in two-strip technicolor - sees her mercilessly...
While Swanson is probably most familiar to modern audiences as the bitter and washed-up star of Billie Wilder's Sunset Blvd, which is currently touring the UK courtesy of a restored Park Circus print, Stage Struck sees her at the other end of the spectrum - as put-upon waitress Jenny, who longs to become an actress in the hopes of impressing her would-be sweetheart, diner wheat-cake flipper Orme (Lawrence Gray).
The film is a feel-good mix of charm and sight gags, with early scenes in the crowded diner giving Swanson a chance to shine at slapstick, while the opening sequence - shot in two-strip technicolor - sees her mercilessly...
- 3/16/2013
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The programme for the third Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema has been announced.
The festival - which has been extended from three to five days in 2013 - will run in Bo'ness, West Lothian, from March 13 to 17.
The festival will open with a screening of Oscar-winner The Artist, before stepping back in time to celebrate the golden era of silent film, with movies including Gloria Swanson's Stage Struck, Charlie Chaplin's The Immigrant and Buster Keaton's One Week.
Documentary Baby Peggy, The Elephant In The Room will also screen, celebrating the work of the oldest surviving silent film star.
Additional events will include the first Scottish appearance of film critic Mark Kermode's skiffle band The Dodge Brothers, a screening of rare Japanese silent Jujiro (Crossways) with live accompaniment by electronic ensemble Minima and a primary school event Make Movie Music.
For more information about the programme and to book tickets,...
The festival - which has been extended from three to five days in 2013 - will run in Bo'ness, West Lothian, from March 13 to 17.
The festival will open with a screening of Oscar-winner The Artist, before stepping back in time to celebrate the golden era of silent film, with movies including Gloria Swanson's Stage Struck, Charlie Chaplin's The Immigrant and Buster Keaton's One Week.
Documentary Baby Peggy, The Elephant In The Room will also screen, celebrating the work of the oldest surviving silent film star.
Additional events will include the first Scottish appearance of film critic Mark Kermode's skiffle band The Dodge Brothers, a screening of rare Japanese silent Jujiro (Crossways) with live accompaniment by electronic ensemble Minima and a primary school event Make Movie Music.
For more information about the programme and to book tickets,...
- 2/5/2013
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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