Today's lineup: Alice in Wonderland (1915) - Early screen treatment of the Lewis Carroll tale from director W.W. Young, with Viola Savoy in the title role. The story is very scattered, but I liked the weird costume choices for the various creatures and characters. Back to God's Country (1919) - One ...

Lon Chaney Jr.

The Scarlet Empress



next: cannibals!, or other "primitive" tribes

Sepiatone wrote: ↑April 3rd, 2023, 11:45 am Sepiatone

The Wizard of Oz


next: circus or carnival that's not The Greatest Show on Earth

H.B. Warner


next: played strong guys

Thanks for the update here, Lawrence. So, since autumn of 2022 it says here, eh?! I wonder how much longer it's going to take until someone or a group of someones with some guts and who has the authority to rectify this injustice to the man's memory will take the final step and actually do this? (....

I always thought they came to that conclusion because of his portraying MARK TWAIN in a biopic as Twain had also been falsely thought of as a racial bigot. And that if March were truly not a racist he would have refused to portray Twain in any movie. I can't say all this for sure, but it's the only...

Last night I watched the British film Kill List (2011). I liked that one. The writer-director Ben Wheatley has gone on to a well-regarded career. I've also seen Sightseers (2012), A Field in England (2013), High-Rise (2015), Free Fire (2016), Rebecca (2020), and In the Earth (2021), but I still lik...

Today's roster: A Florida Enchantment (1914) - Very odd comedy about a young woman from a Northern family who comes to Florida to visit an aunt. She acquires a vial of strange seeds that, when ingested, swap the gender of the consumer for a period of time. Both she and her maid take the seeds and ca...

The Shining


next: trouble on an airplane

Robert Morley


next: played a lot of "immigrant" roles

Today I started out with a few more shorts, then some silent features, then some newer stuff: Love and Science (1912) - French short about a worked-obsessed scientist who develops a TV/telephone combo. His dejected girlfriend uses it to prank him. There's no credited director for this slight sci-fi ...

umop apisdn wrote: ↑April 2nd, 2023, 10:19 pm Where are you watching these? I'm interested in watching some more.

Criterion Channel had a collection a few years back and I watched them all and really liked quite few of them especially The Diabolical Tenant, Robinson Crusoe and The Kingdom of Fairies.

All on YouTube.