Larry Karaszewski

Honored to be a part of Alison Martino’s great report on the vibrant LA revival film scene: youtu.be/O8P0le_huiw?...

Excited for the NYFF presentation tonight - a new restoration of Erich von Stroheim’s “Queen Kelly” - best known today as the silent film Gloria Swanson screens for William Holden in “Sunset Blvd.” And she’s right - they did have faces then.

Great double feature at the New York Film Festival tonight with “IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU” and “IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT”

I love newspaper letterpress printing blocks for old movie ads. Here’s one I got recently for a full page in Variety announcing the boffo grosses on “Billy Jack”

Jim Nabors popping out of the water.

Stumbled upon a 35mm film can labeled: “Deliverance” dailies - Reel 1. I got excited but, alas, it was nothing. No secret John Boorman stash of white water outtakes. I was hoping for at least a few Burt Reynolds bloopers.

The Trailers From Hell website is saluting the films of Claudia Cardinale this week and I kick things off with Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) trailersfromhell.com/leopard/

In honor of Silent Movie Day (September 29th) I watched the stunning new restoration of Corinne Griffith’s 1922 “A Virgin’s Sacrifice” available on the National Film Preservation Foundation website. www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-fi...

Early morning Vista Vision. Second time watch, second format.

Reading “AMPUTATION” - the new Bruce Wagner novel and surprised to see some familiar characters pop up.

Todd Rundgren’s Utopia song “Love in Action”

A book is coming out next year

I’m supposed to… made up to be Dreyfus in Jaws

Yes, I did play Richard Dreyfus in a parody that took on both JAWS and Brian De Palma’s THE FURY. The shark in this movie had telekinetic powers!! I think there were some GOODBYE GIRL jokes in there too (“I don’t like the panties on the boat.”)

ED WOOD is screening Oct. 1st at the Academy Museum in glorious 35mm with the legendary Rick Baker in person to chat about his Oscar winning makeup. www.academymuseum.org/en/programs/...

R.I.P. Claudia Cardinale - no one held the screen like she did.

New HD remaster of a film I helped make back in 1986 - Nicole Bettauer’s powerful documentary short about two homeless men reacting to the death of a friend on the streets of downtown Los Angeles. I’m posting a taste - but here is the whole thing: youtu.be/ocIyGUAFQ_8

In the booth for AIR doing “Moon Safari” with the LA Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl

Seeing the new JAWS exhibit with TI WEST at @theacademy new member welcoming party!

Believe it or not - I actually got in a fight with a rattlesnake. It was a crazy bloody affair involving two cars and an axe 🪓 (you don't get to see those terrifying photos). But fortunately - I won the battle and got the rattle. 🐍

At the Emmys with Carver K

Ha!! Ok with me.

I can’t pass by “The Long Goodbye” apartment without paying homage.
“It’s OK with me.”

David Lynch & Mel Brooks

Really? You have to have been alive in 1973 for this to mean something… but BUFORD PUSSER KILLED HIS OWN WIFE!!! And then he made himself the hero… then Hollywood made a movie about him, then they made sequels, then they remade the movie! But he was the killer the whole time!

The films of Bob Hope are being saluted over at TFH this week so they dragged my chat on funny/scary movies out of the vault to praise Hope’s “The Ghost Breakers” trailersfromhell.com/the-ghost-br...

Vito Corleone's desk at the Academy Museum - next time I’ll bring a cat. 🐈

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