The San Francisco Silent Film Festival presents "A Day of Silents" tomorrow featuring The Black Pirate with Douglas Fairbanks, a long lost Harry Houdini film (The Grim Game), Marcel L'Herbier's L'Inhumaine, Anna May Wong in Piccadilly and more. Meantime, Ben Rivers will be presenting work in Los Angeles, there's an Antonio Pietrangeli retrospective on in New York, the Notebook reviews an exhibition of installation work by Chantal Akerman in London and, in Gateshead, in the UK, there's an exhibition devoted to Bill Murray. » - David Hudson...
- 12/3/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival presents "A Day of Silents" tomorrow featuring The Black Pirate with Douglas Fairbanks, a long lost Harry Houdini film (The Grim Game), Marcel L'Herbier's L'Inhumaine, Anna May Wong in Piccadilly and more. Meantime, Ben Rivers will be presenting work in Los Angeles, there's an Antonio Pietrangeli retrospective on in New York, the Notebook reviews an exhibition of installation work by Chantal Akerman in London and, in Gateshead, in the UK, there's an exhibition devoted to Bill Murray. » - David Hudson...
- 12/3/2015
- Keyframe
The TCM Classic Film Festival opens this evening in Los Angeles with a 50th anniversary screening of The Sound of Music and both Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer will be there. The festival features world premiere restorations of 1939's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the 1928 Buster Keaton comedy Steamboat Bill, Jr. and The Grim Game, a newly rediscovered 1919 silent feature with Harry Houdini. Shirley MacLaine will talk about working with William Wyler and Audrey Hepburn on The Children's Hour, Sophia Loren will be there and on and on. A preview. » - David Hudson...
- 3/26/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
The TCM Classic Film Festival opens this evening in Los Angeles with a 50th anniversary screening of The Sound of Music and both Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer will be there. The festival features world premiere restorations of 1939's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the 1928 Buster Keaton comedy Steamboat Bill, Jr. and The Grim Game, a newly rediscovered 1919 silent feature with Harry Houdini. Shirley MacLaine will talk about working with William Wyler and Audrey Hepburn on The Children's Hour, Sophia Loren will be there and on and on. A preview. » - David Hudson...
- 3/26/2015
- Keyframe
New York -- Hugh Jackman liked his record-setting Broadway run so much this winter that he's handcuffing himself to a future musical about Harry Houdini.
Producers said Wednesday that Jackman, best known as the hairy Wolverine in "The X-Men" franchise, will star as the famed illusionist in "Houdini." It's scheduled to reach Broadway during the 2013-14 season.
Academy Award and six-time Emmy Award winner Aaron Sorkin of "West Wing" fame will write the story, and three-time Academy Award and four-time Grammy Award winner Stephen Schwartz of "Wicked" fame will write music and lyrics.
Jackman's career trajectory reveals a penchant for portraying showmen. He previously played a magician, rivaling Christian Bale, in 2006's "The Prestige." Jackman will also play ringmaster P.T. Barnum in the upcoming 2013 film, "The Greatest Showman on Earth." Aside from the more obvious parallels, Jackman has gravitated toward showmanship in other ways, including his song and dance numbers for the 2009 Oscars,...
Producers said Wednesday that Jackman, best known as the hairy Wolverine in "The X-Men" franchise, will star as the famed illusionist in "Houdini." It's scheduled to reach Broadway during the 2013-14 season.
Academy Award and six-time Emmy Award winner Aaron Sorkin of "West Wing" fame will write the story, and three-time Academy Award and four-time Grammy Award winner Stephen Schwartz of "Wicked" fame will write music and lyrics.
Jackman's career trajectory reveals a penchant for portraying showmen. He previously played a magician, rivaling Christian Bale, in 2006's "The Prestige." Jackman will also play ringmaster P.T. Barnum in the upcoming 2013 film, "The Greatest Showman on Earth." Aside from the more obvious parallels, Jackman has gravitated toward showmanship in other ways, including his song and dance numbers for the 2009 Oscars,...
- 1/4/2012
- by AP/The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
The origins of cinema, a prize-winning book reveals, are closely linked to the conjurors and spiritualists of the early 20th century
Over the past few months, I have been on a judging panel with Sir Christopher Frayling and Hugh Hudson for a prize which is not as well known as it deserves to be. This is the Kraszna Krausz best moving image book award, given to the year's most outstanding book on cinema, video art and the moving image. The award was created in 1985 by the Hungarian publisher Andor Kraszna-Krausz, and the foundation also sponsors prizes for best photography book and outstanding contribution to publishing. Our jury settled on what I think is a truly fascinating book: Disappearing Tricks: Silent Film, Houdini and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century, by Matthew Solomon, published by the University of Illinois Press.
In it, film historian Solomon re-examines the cinema's occult roots...
Over the past few months, I have been on a judging panel with Sir Christopher Frayling and Hugh Hudson for a prize which is not as well known as it deserves to be. This is the Kraszna Krausz best moving image book award, given to the year's most outstanding book on cinema, video art and the moving image. The award was created in 1985 by the Hungarian publisher Andor Kraszna-Krausz, and the foundation also sponsors prizes for best photography book and outstanding contribution to publishing. Our jury settled on what I think is a truly fascinating book: Disappearing Tricks: Silent Film, Houdini and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century, by Matthew Solomon, published by the University of Illinois Press.
In it, film historian Solomon re-examines the cinema's occult roots...
- 5/3/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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