A very amusing video of Jean Dujardin doing auditions for villain parts:
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/6cddad ... -auditions

Now that The Artist has won 7 BAFTA Awards, your local cinema should really show it!

The Artist got 10 nominations at the Academy Awards yesterday. Pretty good!

The lovely Mona Maris was Mrs Clarence Brown. I've seen her in a German silent comedy with Kurt Bois.

I must now get hold of the remake " Personal Property " (1937), with Bob Taylor and Jean Harlow to compare...although I'm sure it can't top the original. Two members of the cast of the original film reprised their roles her: Reginald Owen and Forrester Harvey. I've seen the remake with Ha...

It's also got 12 nominations at the BAFTA. Hopefully, it will also help. The film is going to have a re-release in France in something like 200 screens.

I'm so cross my local cinema chain is only carrying this film in London, parts of the South East and Cheshire, despite it winning so many awards it doesn't come to my part of England. They must think we're all plebs here :cry: Distributors in the UK are notoriously timorous. But if the film gets a ...

Last night, The Artist won three Golden Globes Awards: Best Actor (in a comedy), Best Film (Comedy) and Best Score. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16570816 As for the quote of Herrmann's Vertigo, I read something interesting in a interview of the composer: "One such losing battle ...

Yesterday, I saw this wonderful Mosjoukine picture at the CF. I discovered it in 2008 and I had as much pleasure as the first time I saw it. http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa123/cleteux/SilverScreen/Ombres2small.jpg (I. Mosjoukine, A. Brabant & H. Krauss) Les Ombres qui passent (Shadows goin...

I don't remember the use of any New Wave techniques in the film. Ironically, it's much like one of those solid achievements by the filmmakers the young firebrand Truffaut derided. You're absolutely right, Kingrat. :mrgreen: Yesterday I saw a really good adaptation of the Gogol's short story The Ove...

Sounds interesting, Alison! Recently I've been watching some Jean Harlow pictures I had never seen before. Some proved really great. First, Bombshell (1933, V. Fleming) a brilliant comedy about a Hollywood movie star struggling with her family (which dilapidates her money) and with the studio public...

Visages d'enfants is quite simply of masterpiece. Jacques Feyder, Belgian born, made a series of great pictures during the silent era, as well as talkies. He started as an actor. He got later employed in Gaumont and directed shorts. In 1921, he managed to finance his first feature-length picture: L...

Yesterday I went to the Cinematheque to see a rare Paul Czinner called Liebe (1927) with Elisabeth Bergner. It's an adaptation of a Balzac novel called La Duchesse de Langeais which has been adapted several times including in 1922 by Frank Lloyd with Norma Talmadge as The Eternal Flame . The story c...

Thanks CineMaven for all those pictures. Funnily enough, yesterday I saw the Musso & Frank's grill and The Roosevelt hotel in a documentary about Laurel & Hardy. I immediately remembered your post. I also read a little book written by a Frenchman in 1929 who worked as an extra in Hollywood i...

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