Afraid so. Fan subs just recently got written, I think.
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Afraid so. Fan subs just recently got written, I think.
Once in a while, a very very very good film... dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/03/10/h...
Well, I mean West of Zanzibar has some uncomfortable aspects... it's sensational stuff, but while we're on the topic of racism I wouldn't let it off completely...
Oh, I've seen that one! Want to see more Hart, only done a couple.
He Who Gets Slapped is my favourite film full stop.
What are some good 1910s Gothic Westerns? They sound great!
Keaton was guilty of that very common squeamishness about portraying the losing side as the baddies. It's understandable because everyone seemed to share that squeamishness but it's the reason the horrible Confederate myths still endure.
It's driving me crazy!
What book? I feel like I saw this recently but can't remember where.
In the case of the Leo McCarey anecdote, he steals it from an interview he stole from someone else (McCarey was too ill to talk much, but somehow produced verbatim the words he'd given to a French interviewer some years before).
Nickelodeon steals mainly from the interviews he did with old-timey directors.
What's Up Doc does assemble some bits of other films. Targets, Last Picture Show and Paper Moon don't, really.
I think he had to keep coming up with answers to the very tiresome "Why is your film in b&w?"
The true story of the Nazi conquest of Britain. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/03/08/t...
HAHAHA this guy. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/03/06/h...
The saucy joys of Terry and the Pirates.
dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/03/05/t...
The truly spectacular GEHEIMNISSE DES ORIENTS is hobbled by a single casting blunder, but still... wowsers are in order. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/03/04/a...
Having a hard day? Try watching Tarzan wrestle a stuffed lioness under the surprised gaze of two stock-footage parrots. And wait till you hear his OFF-MODEL YODEL! dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/02/28/o...
mmm maybe earlier. They had one of the editor's experimental films on with it, in which he played with an outtake from MOE.
I may have been at that same screening!
sometimes you have a thing in your head for a long time, and then you make it happen, and then people respond ecstatically, and it's literally the best, most validating feeling in the world
thank you to everyone who's been reading and sharing this
GOOD LUCK HAVE FUN DON'T DIE (no commas on the poster or in the film's main title card) is excellent. The kind of fantasy cinema I'd like to be mainstream. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/02/26/v...
One year after Gertie the Dinosaur did it.
Also, Welles to Moreau: "You've DESTROYED my nose!"
The young Richard Barthelmess was quite the dreamboat. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/t...
How bad does an actor's hair have to be in a role before it effectively neutralizes him? dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/02/21/1...
There is, just possibly, a right way to do true crime. DEVIL IN DISGUISE. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/02/20/d...
Sometimes a man hits the ground so hard everything turns upside down. 20,000 YEARS IN SING SING. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/02/19/h...
And Dave's nephew!