Thursday 31 May 2012
Coming Up on TCM's Silent Sunday Nights in June
The lineup for TCM's Silent Sunday Nights in June is looking pretty damn fine. Clear some space on those TIVOs for these four great silent films, unless you actually stay up to 2 a.m. In that case, get the coffee maker primed. No matter how you consu...
Wednesday 30 May 2012
Review: The Temptress (1926)
The Temptress (1926) is a standard little romantic melodrama, the kind of silent film that you find on any silver screen in any town in 1926. It's packed with super stars - directed by Fred Ni...
Friday 25 May 2012
Win the Buster Keaton Short Films Collection
And the Pretty Clever Films blog birthday month bash continues with the chance to win the Kino edition of Buster Keaton: Short Films Collection 1920-1923!
Keaton;s short films are widely regarded as not only his finest work, ...
And the winner of the Chaplin Modern Times Watch is...
The winner of the super amazing to Trevor Jost, better known as @tpjost on Twitter. He's also the proud owner of the awesom...
Film Friday Weekly Round Up
Summer is officially on in Toronto, friends and neighbors! The pools are open, the barbeques are fired, and the Cup finals are a wash (the Kings and the Rangers, puh-lease). And this if of course a perfect day for... sitting in a dark theatr...
Wednesday 23 May 2012
The Modern Times Feeding Machine Scene
This is my favorite scene from Modern Times. It's the little mouth wiping arm of the feeding machine that really gets me. I guess dead pan is to be expected from a bot, but the way that it pops out to dab Charlie's mouth no matter what mishap ju...
Monday 21 May 2012
Finite Hitchcock
This article is my contribution to the For the Love of Film: The Film Preservation Blogathon III. Granted, I'm two days late, but I don't have to be two dollars short. This year's blogathon was designed to benefit the Nation...
Friday 18 May 2012
And the winner of A Trip to the Moon is...
Here's how it went down. I woke up, caffeinated, and put all of the entries for the A Trip to the Moon giveaway in a spread sheet. There were A LOT of them, I tell you. You guys want some Melies it seems. Then I assigne...
Film Friday Weekly Round Up: For the Love of Film Blogathon Edition
Okay, so I'm sure most of you know about the For the Love of Film Blogathon to benefit the National Film Preservation Foundation. ...
Tuesday 15 May 2012
Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers (1915)
Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers features a lot of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and a little bit of Harold Lloyd. I give it five stars for that fact alone and one more for Fatty in drag.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IhjRV-wo9Y
Direct...
Monday 14 May 2012
Hand-Colored Original Clips from a Trip to the Moon
Here's some hand-colored original clips from a Trip to the Moon. This is just a little tease of what you'll be watching if you w...
Grapevine Video May Releases
Word to yo mama, Grapevine Video just announced 4 "new" silent titles for release this month. All these titles are on sale through the end of the month, so get 'em whi...
Review: The Testament of Judith Barton
I hated Jane Eyre. I resented every moment of my ninth grade life that was wasted on reading that book. And then I was delighted to learn that another author had written a novel about Rochester's mad wife in the attic, Wide Sargasso Sea<...
Saturday 12 May 2012
A Trip to the Moon in Beautiful Color
Silent films weren't always black and white, ya know. It's a fact that modern viewers sometimes lose sight of. Sometimes silent films were brought to glorious life by pain staking hand coloring. Each tiny little frame is a master piece.
The c...
Friday 11 May 2012
Film Friday - Weekly Round Up
What a beautiful Friday morning it's shaping up to be! It's sunny and mild, and I hope you're not reading this because you're out in it, or you're at the Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid classic film weekend hosted by the Toronto Film Society ...
Tuesday 8 May 2012
Review: Hitler: The Comedy Years
How could I not want to watch a documentary titled Hitler: The Comedy Years? This doc has a really fascinating premise - in short, Great Britain viewed ridicule as it's greatest anti-Nazi weapon. Now, that's interesting. In the end, the doc ...
Monday 7 May 2012
Watch: His Regeneration (1915)
Let's play spot the Chaplin! His Regeneration was released on May 7, 1915 by Essanay Studios. In it, a criminal type get in an argument over a dance hall gal. Notable mostly for featuring an uncredited Charlie Chaplin in the role of "a ...
Short films from the Golden Age of Comedy
The golden age of the short film and the golden age of comedy are one in the same. Here's a look at a few of my favorites from the silent era, when all films were short films, and the comic geniuses were at play. Get ready for a yuks and chucks!...
Friday 4 May 2012
Coming soon... PCF is giving stuff away!
Hey silent party people, it's almost my blog birthday! Pretty Clever Films was born on May 11, 2011, so it's just one week away from being one whole year old.
Now, Pretty Clever Film Gal loves a birthday, especially her own. She's a birthday ...
Watch Caught in the Rain (1914)
See Charlie Chaplin in Caught in the Rain (1914). I'm going four stars on this one, since it's Charlie, Keystone Studios, and funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnO7Sthol8I
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Film Friday - Weekly Roundup
The Super-Sized Edition
I'm going to call this week's Film Friday - Weekly Roundup: The Super-sized Edition. I mean just look at all those links! I am obviously inspired by the interwebs this week, and obviously NOT jus...
Thursday 3 May 2012
Review: The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916)
Thanks to the generosity and hospitality of an awesome Toronto film fan, I had the opportunity to see The Mystery of the Leaping Fish last weekend. I've...
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916)
I give the Mystery of the Leaping Fish 5 stars just for it weirdness and it's Little Fish Blower. Read my review here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8W52FNmEFY&list=PL644ACEC7CF5CB4F7&index=1&feature=pl...
Wednesday 2 May 2012
Tuesday 1 May 2012
Manhandled (1924)
This 1924 beauty starring Gloria Swanson and Tom Moore is your classic tale of girl succeeding and then being accused of allowing herself to be "manhandled" in order to succeed. I mean it can't be talent, right?
There's some awesome footage of NYC...
There's some awesome footage of NYC...
The Toronto Film Society Presents the "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" Film Weekend
For the past 45 years, the Toronto Film Society has hosted a May film weekend in northern Ontario, and now for the first time ever, the May film weeken...
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