Alright, boys and girls. So it’s difficult to say whether it’s any good, but here it is! If you’re curious, click the link below for a PDF of the script. We’ll post longer thoughts on the whole thing tomorrow, but right now we’re going to bed. Off the Record
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Film 25: Grand Hotel
Grand Hotel (1932) dir. Edmund Goulding. USA. Fascinating atmosphere is woven through the story, reflecting the beehive of a fashionable foreign hotel (it’s in Berlin) – its gaiety, sorrow, strivings and just aimless bustle. There are spirited glimpses of a vast hotel switchboard with a jumble of words; the lobby is angled as a huge … Continue reading Film 25: Grand Hotel
Film 17 (a): The Fall of the House of Usher
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) dir. J. S. Watson, Jr. & Melville Webber. USA.An avant-garde experimental film, the visual element predominates, including shots through prisms to create optical distortion.[1] There is no dialogue, though one part features letters moving across the screen. -- Wikipedia (who else would write about this minor horror … Continue reading Film 17 (a): The Fall of the House of Usher
Film 14: Wings
Wings (1927) dir. William A. Wellman. USA. "Ironically, a mass-market silent spectacular like William Wellman's Wings effortlessly showcases far more visual variety than mainstream American films have offered since: it displays shifts from brutal realism to nonrealistic techniques associated with Soviet avant-garde or impressionistic French cinema - double exposures, subjective point-of-view shots, trick effects, symbolic … Continue reading Film 14: Wings
Film 11: The Phantom of the Opera
The Phantom of the Opera (1925) dir. Rupert Julian. USA. "The Phantom of the Opera" is not a great film if you are concerned with art and subtlety, depth and message; "Nosferatu" is a world beyond it. But in its fevered melodrama and images of cadaverous romance, it finds a kind of show-biz majesty. And … Continue reading Film 11: The Phantom of the Opera
Film 7: Sherlock Jr.
Sherlock, Jr. (1924) dir. Buster Keaton. USA. (NB: We switched film 7 and 8 on our docket for timing purposes. They were both released in 1924.) 'The greatest of the silent clowns is Buster Keaton, not only because of what he did, but because of how he did it. Harold Lloyd made us laugh as … Continue reading Film 7: Sherlock Jr.
Film 1: Cabiria
Cabiria (1914) dir. Giovanni Pastrone. Italy. [As we work our way through our film history docket, we'll post (very) short write-ups of each movie, along with a piece of insight.] "The movie feels old, and by that I mean older than 1914. It feels like a view of ancient times, or at least of those … Continue reading Film 1: Cabiria
Film History Docket
Here it is! 365 films for 365 days. These are all significant movies that we haven't seen, taken (largely) from one of three lists. First, the 2012 Sight & Sound Best Films list, as voted on by prominent critics and directors. We combined the critics list and the directors list, eliminated duplicates, and eliminated films … Continue reading Film History Docket
Post Mortem Video Q&A
We sat down to do a little one-on-one interview with one another, to go over our thoughts and takeaways from the project. If you're looking for 13 minutes of two people talking about a script they wrote, look no further.
Our Previous Film Docket
This idea of making a docket of films as a sort of informal film history crash course isn't a new one. We did it a couple of years ago, albeit on a smaller scale, before we moved to LA. The movies on our first docket were pretty arbitrary. We basically sat down and said, "What … Continue reading Our Previous Film Docket
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