TCM silents in May/June
Lang Thompson
5/14 Spite Marriage
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow (all three parts)
The Cameraman
5/21 Grass
5/24 The Circus
Modern Times
5/28 He Who Gets Slapped
5/30 The First Auto (Roy Del Ruth 1927)
5/31 City Lights
6/4 It
6/5 Intolerance
Greed (reconstructed version)
Within Our Gates
Midnight Ramble (Micheaux documentary)
6/7 Their Own Desire - 1929 silent or sound?
6/11 Show People
6/14 Battleship Potemkin
6/15 Last of the Mohicans (1920)
6/18 Trail of 98
6/21 The General
6/23 The Lost World (1923)
6/25 Wild Orchids
6/27 The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (not silent but....)
LT
AlRodz
look a gift horse in the mouth... these are all good pictures, but some have
been played a lot.
Al Rodriguez
alr...@aol.com
Rob Kozlowski
Seems we may see 30 or so silents plus the documentary "Without Lying Down,"
presumably based on the book of the same name.
I'm not sure what the exact URL is, but the press release is on the TCM Web
site. Appears there will be a great variety shown that month. Me? I never
mind the repeats, it means I save on blank tapes for a few weeks. My guess
is they don't have the musical scores available for many silents.
Rob Kozlowski
SilentsAreGolden
wondering if you perhaps meant the documentary that Anthony Slide did
several years ago. It was on Women Silent Directors, was about 45
minutes I believe, but was only available to educational groups and
libraries. Also, why does it "seem that we may see 30 or so silents"?
Have you heard something about that? Thanks.
Mike
Richard Lanham
<hat...@enteract.com> wrote:
> Well, I'm dreadfully excited about the Women in Early Film series in August.
> Seems we may see 30 or so silents plus the documentary "Without Lying Down,"
> presumably based on the book of the same name.
>
> I'm not sure what the exact URL is, but the press release is on the TCM Web
> site. Appears there will be a great variety shown that month. Me? I never
> mind the repeats, it means I save on blank tapes for a few weeks. My guess
> is they don't have the musical scores available for many silents.
>
> Rob Kozlowski
Here is the URL:
http://tcm.turner.com/PRESS_ROOM/00/03/women.htm
Rick Lanham
Rob Kozlowski
to the women who helped shape the early years of American cinema. As part of
TCM's unprecedented August line-up featuring more than 30 films written,
directed or produced by females, Women Film Pioneers will include the world
premiere of an original documentary and several new film restorations.
Women Film Pioneers begins August 3 at 8 p.m. ET with the world premiere of
Without Lying Down, a TCM original documentary that explores the life and
career of Frances Marion, the highest-paid screen writer in Hollywood for
nearly three decades and first female writer to win an Oscar®. The
documentary will include interviews with leading women in entertainment
today, film historians and many of Marion's friends and associates,
including author Cari Beauchamp, preeminent silent film historian Kevin
Brownlow, film critic Leonard Maltin, chief curator for the film department
at the Museum of Modern Art Mary Lea Bandy and Oscar®-nominated former child
star Jackie Cooper.
The world premieres of two TCM restorations, complete with original music
scores - Marion's THE SCARLET LETTER (1926) and Helen Gardner's CLEOPATRA
(1912), one of the first feature film s ever produced - will also highlight
the tribute to influential women in early film.
The comprehensive collection of rarely or never-before broadcast films and
footage will showcase the works of female directors, writers, producers and
actresses-turned-producers, including Marion, Alice Guy Blache, Lois Weber,
Ida Lupino, Mary Pickford, Nell Shipman and Dorothy Arzner, among others.
This is the most ambitious programming event on the subject to date, as TCM
recognizes the more than 100 women who wrote or directed films during the
silent era and countless others who contributed as actors, producers and
technicians.
"Women film pioneers are an integral part of our American cinema heritage,
yet they have never been given proper recognition," said Tom Karsch,
executive vice president and general manager of TCM. "TCM's initiative
reaches beyond showcasing the work of these women to include educational
outreach and contributions to the restoration efforts of works that shaped
the development of cinema."
Dr. Giraud
> scores - Marion's THE SCARLET LETTER (1926) and Helen Gardner's CLEOPATRA
> (1912), one of the first feature film s ever produced - will also highlight
> the tribute to influential women in early film.
>
version previously shown on TCM seemed incomplete.
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R H Draney
> 5/30 The First Auto (Roy Del Ruth 1927)
About time!...I've been waiting to see this one since the week it was
pre-empted for a tribute in the wake of Sinatra's death....
(If long-sought films keep turning up at the rate they have been lately,
I may actually get to see Love Strange Love some day)....r
--
"Mom, look! I traded the Lamborghini for these magic beans!"
David P. Hayes
>Lang Thompson wrote:
>
>> 5/30 The First Auto (Roy Del Ruth 1927)
>
>About time!...I've been waiting to see this one since the week it was
>pre-empted for a tribute in the wake of Sinatra's death....
I can understand your annoyance that "The First Auto" was not shown on
"Silent Sundays" in May 1998 owing to the marathon of Frank Sinatra films
shown days after the singer's death on May 14, but why didn't you watch "The
First Auto" when it was shown September 2, 1998? It was on that date that
TCM ran the marathon of six "racetrack" movies that had originally been
scheduled to coincide with anticipation for the Indianapolis 500.
--
David Hayes
R H Draney
Must have been during the time the cable company's special version of TV Guide
was screwing up all the listings...didn't know it was run until just now....r
David P. Hayes
>> >About time!...I've been waiting to see this one since the week it was
>> >pre-empted for a tribute in the wake of Sinatra's death....
>>
>> First Auto" when it was shown September 2, 1998? ...
>
>Must have been during the time the cable company's special version of TV
Guide
>was screwing up all the listings...didn't know it was run until just
now....r
A recommendation: go to the TCM web site to learn what is on TCM. You get a
whole month of listings that way -- and you can search on the basis of year
or decade ["(192*)"]. Failing that, there are satellite programming
magazines.
--
David Hayes