Sunday, April 5, 2009

A Review: Tapas, Cherry Blossoms And The General

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Katie- Bar-The- Door and I took our own advice and went to see The General at the Kennedy Center last night. How often, when you're wr...
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Thursday, April 2, 2009

Best Actor Of The Silent Era: Charles Chaplin (Part Two: "Chaplin Or Keaton: The Never-ending Argument")

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Charles Chaplin or Buster Keaton, who was greater, is one of those perennial questions—like "Republican or Democrat" "Elvis o...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Best Actor Of The Silent Era: Charles Chaplin (Part One: "And The Nominees Are ...")

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Decades after the demise of silent movies, one star from that era remains instantly recognizable: Charles Chaplin. And when it came time to...
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The General At The Kennedy Center, Saturday April 4, 2009, 8 p.m.

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Speak of the devil, the Kennedy Center in our very own Washington, D.C., will be showing Buster Keaton's The General this Saturday, Ap...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Another Look At The General

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That's not a special effect, that's not a model, that's not computer-generated trickery. That's Buster Keaton dropping a re...
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Best Picture Of The Silent Era: The General

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If you're only going to see one movie from what I'm calling the pre- Oscars Silent Era, then Buster Keaton's masterpiece The Gen...
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Monday, March 30, 2009

An Aside: Nosferatu

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In honor of faithful reader lupner who professes to shake with fright whenever she thinks of F.W. Murnau's classic vampire movie, Nosfer...
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On The Perils Of Watching Silent Movies

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Silent movies are in some essential way not what we think of as movies at all. Yes, you sit in the dark and watch flickering images of ligh...
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Friday, March 27, 2009

I Know What You're Thinking

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I know what you're thinking. You're thinking "How long, O Lord, can he write about movies I'm never going to see?!?" ...
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Career Achievement Awards For The Silent Era (films released prior to August 1, 1927)

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PICTURE: The General ACTOR: Charles Chaplin ACTRESS: Lillian Gish DIRECTOR: D.W. Griffith Maybe this is what the Academy should have don...
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