Mrs. mota and I are big film noir fans, and from Jan 20-29, we will be attending the 20th Noir City Film Festival. We attended last year and it was a blast!
Here are this years films. For you noir fans, which we most definitely are, there are classics you’ve likely seen multiple times (eg, Key Largo and Naked City) as well as many less well known noirs. I believe this year, like last, at least one newly restored film will be shown. Cool as shit seeing a film that hasn’t been seen in, you know, 6 decades!
Just finishing up the last season of Babylon 5 before it goes off HBO Max later this month. My partner and I are on a long journey of TNG-DS9-B5 and now probably Battlestar Galactica for our nightly episode or two. We also just both watched the first season of Wednesday, so good!
We’re really looking forward to attending! It is such a treat to get to see these movies in an actual theater, much less a real movie palace. You know, the kind where the organ/organist comes up through the floor and the interior is, well, palatial!
If you’re in the SF Bay Area and enjoy going to the movies, I encourage you to consider attending the Noir City Festival. You can purchase tickets for individual shows as well as a “Passport” to all of the showings, if they are still available. Last year was sold out.
Yep. There’s a silent film festival here in Toronto and my fave 2 venues are: Castle Loma and The Fox Thearter.
The Fox is the last standing vaudeville/silent cinema house and they often will be the ones able to play the films as celluloid prints. It’s also just a block away from the beaches so it’s a great night out.
Castle Loma is a mansion made to look like (and built like) a castle in the early 1900’s and has a fully working Wurlitzer organ built into the grand hall which is fully set-up for silent film playback including the classic sound effects.
Castle Loma! I love it! And a big hell yes for silent movies! When I was a kid growing up in L.A., my dad would take me to a movie house that played silents exclusively. He was born in 1908, so they were part of his childhood memories. For me, of course, they were a very different experience from what I was used to. He pointed out to me how the style of acting was SO different than modern films. The actors had to be so expressive, and often the music carried plenty of emotional significance.
A few years ago, Mrs. mota and I went to a silent film festival at the Castro Theater in San Francisco. It’s another serious movie palace where the mighty Wurlitzer comes up through the floor. The organist at that festival was near 100 years old. He had played at the openings of many of the movies shown that night! It was set up as a silent era film would have been shown back in the day. There were a couple of live acts too, as I recall one was athletic/gymnastic and one was comedy.
I’ll bet going to those palaces is such a good time!
Watched this yesterday for some reason. It was filmed in 1984 but then never made so last year they added sound to it and sloppily edited it together to make a very cringey movie.
This trailer is very misleading because it almost makes this watchable
I’m guessing there aren’t any episodes about them " bravely " taking down the very Cannabis internet forum we’re talking on right now? Probably not… that’d be bad PR.
I’ve been watching RRR on and off for the last week while trying to get caught up on trimming. I’ve been really enjoying it (hard not to draw comparisons to some of John Woo’s HK work, and Once Upon a Time in China for the anticolonialist independence movement storyline)… it kinda has it all, humor, crazy martial arts sequences, an elaborate dance number, etc.
And a big hell yes for silent movies! When I was a kid growing up in L.A., my dad would take me to a movie house that played silents exclusively. He was born in 1908, so they were part of his childhood memories. For me, of course, they were a very different experience from what I was used to. He pointed out to me how the style of acting was SO different than modern films. The actors had to be so expressive, and often the music carried plenty of emotional significance.
