JOAN DARK

Posted on May 23, 2012
Filed Under miscellany

This is a link to the online home of JOAN DARK, an in-progress graphic novel being drawn by the great Spain Rodriguez. Please stop by and give us a “Like.”

And… wait for it… gonna ask for money now…

this is a link to the Kickstarter page for JOAN DARK. We need $38,000, and we’re offering all sorts of cool rewards to our backers. Please stop by and give us lots of money.

“We” and “us” because I’m the writer adapting the JOAN DARK original screenplay into a graphic novel script for Spain, which is part of the reason I haven’t been around much lately.

It’s been a long break, lots to talk about, but at the moment I’m concentrating on JOAN DARK and our fund-raising campaign–so  I hope you take a minute to look over the Kickstarter campaign and pass the word, or even make a donation.

Hey, one of the rewards is to have Spain draw you into the comic–how cool is that?

More soon–but now I have to go clean up my long-neglected Twitter feed…

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Soundies

Posted on May 29, 2011
Filed Under films, miscellany

This is Reg Kehoe and his Marimba Queens performing “A Study in Brown” from 1940, courtesy www.archive.org.

My friend Ann turned me on to this clip; she used to keep it on her computer to pick up her spirits when she felt blue. Read more

Silent film lives, Dolores Fuller dies, Mosfilm online, Clive James on David Thomson

Posted on May 15, 2011
Filed Under Ed Wood, miscellany, silent films

This is the trailer for The Artist (2011), a silent film about the world of silent film.

The Artist, directed by Michel Hazanavicius and starring Jean Dujardin, was purchased by The Weinstein Company and was the first film sold at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Hazanavicius is the director and Dujardin the star of the OSS 117 espionage spoofs. The cast includes John Goodman, Penelope Ann Miller and John Cromwell. The production of a silent film in 2011 says to me that the medium is at last attracting the modern attention it deserves; I expect to see more film like this in the years to come. I recommend the discussion at Nitrateville. Read more

Thanhouser films online, People On Sunday coming to DVD

Posted on March 29, 2011
Filed Under film news, films, miscellany, silent films

Dr. Jekll and Mr. Hyde (1912) from Ned Thanhouser on Vimeo.

Thanhouser Film Preservation Company has put their films online!

This is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912), from the Thanhouser Company, a pioneering American film studio in New Rochelle, New York that was active from 1910 to 1918. Read more

Silents added to National Film Registry, Ebert offers Oscar nod, more

Posted on December 29, 2010
Filed Under contemporary, film news, miscellany

Yesterday James H. Billington, Librarian of the United States Congress, announced the 25 films that will be added to the National Film Registry this year. Included are some terrific titles, among them The Front Page, The Exorcist, All the President’s Men, The Pink Panther and McCabe and Mrs. Miller. The full list is here. Four of the inductees are early silent films, including A Trip Down Market Street; Thomas Gladysz has an excellent description of the early titles here. The puzzler for me on this year’s list is The Empire Strikes Back Read more

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