Steve Jarrett

Today is the first Silent Movie Day since the entire silent film period entered the public domain (except for a couple of Chaplin outliers). Watch a silent movie today!

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I remember operating one of those quadruplex beasts when I was a videotape engineer at a local TV station in a previous century.

The most recent installment of my "Cinema Century" blog, in which a prominent writer is hired by a Hollywood studio, then is let go, then returns as an actor, and ends up as a screenwriter again, this time with great success.

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Sometimes the original is not safe even from its own creator. Chaplin tried to bury the original GOLD RUSH after releasing his quasi-talkie reboot.

It was John Wayne, of course.

Schumer will write a strongly worded letter, and then by God they'll be sorry.

The most recent installment of my "Cinema Century" blog, in which a company that helped lay the foundation for the movie industry in this country folds its tent, marking the end of an era.

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Sure, but now ask them if they would vote for him again. Spoiler: an absolutely horrifying number of them will tell you that they would.

I met Beverly Bayne when I was a 16-year-old silent movie fan attending Cinecon 8 in 1972. She was one of the guests of honor at the con that year, along with Lois Wilson, Zena Keefe, and Leatrice Joy.

The most recent installment of my "Cinema Century" blog, in which a major star of the silent cinema makes the decision to go independent, and learns that being one's own boss in Hollywood has its downsides as well as its benefits.

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YouTube video by NBC New York Long-lost silent film uncovered on Long Island

Another silent film discovery. The existence of 16mm reduction prints on safety film stock continues to be our best bet for the continued discovery of silent pictures that were thought to be lost.

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The Big Bad Swap: The Problem With Replaced Music When is a movie not a movie? When it's a movie with an entirely different soundtrack.

CASABLANCA updated:
RICK: Sam, I told you never to play that tune!
SAM: Why not, boss?
RICK: Because we can't clear the rights!

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Per the U.S. Supreme Court, Donald Trump can do literally anything he wants, anytime he wants, as often as he wants, for any reason, or for no reason, without consequences of any kind.

This excellent site deserves the support of every cinephile.

One of my favorite David Lynch projects was not a film. It was a comic strip -- "The Angriest Dog in the World."

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YouTube video by Brittney Gilbert David Lynch on iPhone

Every semester, on the first day of class, I show this clip to my film history students. I know they won't listen when I beg them not to watch the assigned films on their phones, so I have to hope that they will pay heed to a higher authority.

RIP David Lynch

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What Does It Mean to Remake Nosferatu Instead of Simply Dracula? Dracula is back. Dracula hasn’t been away for very long (last year saw two reinterpretations: the corny comic misfire Renfield and genuinely innovative horror film The Last Voyage of the Demeter), …

"Orlock can’t die from a stake or holy water and can only be burned to a crispy death by exposure to sunlight. His reach and his accessibility are the results of his ability to project shadows of himself across space. Orlok is cinema. Nosferatu is cinema."

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The only remaining artifact from Gertrude Stein's extremely brief career as an office manager.

I love this story of Mark Evanier's yuletide encounter with Mel Torme. Revisiting it has become as much a part of my Christmas traditions as Dickens and Jean Shepherd. www.newsfromme.com/2024/12/19/m...

Lost John Ford film found in Chile after 100 years | The National The Scarlet Drop, a western starring actor Harry Carey, was found in a Santiago warehouse a day before it was set to be demolished

“The film is 106 years old. It was stored in conditions we don’t know about. I think there are films that decide to live,” said Cordova. www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture...

Schroedinger's weather forecast.

Guilty. Sue me.

The most recent installment of my “Cinema Century” blog, in which Warner Brothers makes an aggressive move in the theater-buying “arms race” that is transforming the structure of the movie industry. steve-jarrett.sites.wfu.edu/uncategorize...

I think it was Robert Heinlein who said "one should never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence."

"All-vampire production of DRACULA flops after entire cast fails to show up on film."

The most recent installment of my "Cinema Century" blog, in which one of the most successful and celebrated directors in Hollywood abruptly announces that he is packing it in and will abandon filmmaking for good.
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JAWS shirt on a mannequin that is missing one arm

Not my image -- original source unknown.

The ending of James Joyce's "Ulysses," as read by Marcella Riordan.***God of heaven theres nothing like nature the wild mountains then the sea and the waves ... James Joyce - Ulysses: Molly Bloom's Soliloquy, The Last 50 Lines

Happy Bloomsday to one and all -- yes!

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One cautionary tale is the restoration of CITIZEN KANE in which the rain outside the window of Bernstein’s office was interpreted by the software as noise and was deleted.

The most recent installment of my "Cinema Century" blog, in which movie directors band together to preserve their mutual creative autonomy but then learn the hard way that there is a price to be paid for independence.
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