Ryan McNeil
My team rallied to tie the game in the ninth inning and eventually win it in sixteen. How did your team do yesterday?
So welcome back everybody, the films you haven’t seen are gone now, and I’ll be moving on to more topical posts for a while. Though as I look ahead, things will be a little tough for a while as there aren’t too many new releases coming that I want to talk about. Hopefully the three I do want to see can carry me until Hot Docs takes over. That and the three podcast episodes I have planned between now and then.
So come back ofetn and tell your friends, but begging your pardon, I’m keeping today’s post brief. It’s a long weekend up here, and I’m actually hoping to get a tiny bit of actual rest out of it.
For your listening and reading fulfillment, I give you…
A podcast that I haven’t featured in this space yet is the newly minted Outside the Envelope hosted by Brian from Dear Film. I’m a staunch believer that brand new shows shouldn’t sound half as good as this one does, which means the man has done his homework. Listen in on THE HUNGER GAMES episode.
By far the biggest blogging news this week is that rachel and Jess have finally consummated their relationship. Reel Insight is now a concerted force in the blogosphere.
Young Corey decided to springboard off an old post of mine and hash out some thoughts of his own – and he has done so quite well. He hasn’t quite inspired the fracas that my original post did, so feel free to jump in and stir the pot.
Perhaps it’s fitting that on the week I was waist-deep in silent film, that Jessica finally caught up with THE ARTIST.
Simon has started working his way through Walt Disney’s animated features, and has put together a pretty thorough piece on the landmark achievement that was SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARVES. Good luck mate – hope you can summon this sort of moxie when you get to THE RESCUERS DOWN UNDER.
Finally, something of a generic link for Jandy’s site The Frame. While I’m not looking to point you to anything specific, I am looking to point you towards her outlet since her coverage of the TCM Festival in L.A. begins in a week, and you should be following her dispatches. Have fun Jandy (and Titania too!).
As for the tweet of the week, all I can say is I’ve been there too Sam:
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Enjoy!
That picture is great. And relatively comedic, considering it’s a modern theater showing Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, in classic black and white.
It’s actually quite an old theatre. Tiny too – I’d never been there before and damned near drove right by!
Hee, hee, hee…consummated. I even got flowers out of it.
As always, thanks for spreading our good news!
Flowers eh? Your technique must be quite something…
You make me blush.
Thanks for the linkage!
Anytime sir – Glad I could inspire such a well thought-out post.
Oh, thank you! I really love how you’ve dived into silent film. And your episode with the silent film fans was awesome. Very inspiring!
That was a great dose of silents, but I’m ready to come back to the land of the talkies now. Hopefully I can continue to pepper my watchlist with more of them as the year goes on.
Thanks for the link! The Disney posts seem very much for me only so its nice to know someones reading them. Its tough to commit long term to posts, but its the blurays I’m loving! Disney on bluray is incredible!
I keep holding out hope that I’ll be able to see some of the classic Disney on a big screen sometime soon. Admittedly, that’s sort of a high hope since Disney is notoriously stingy with the rights on their material.
The funny thing of course is that up until the dawn of home video, Diseny used to trot these films into theatres every few years.
Keep ’em coming!