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Post by **dng** » Fri Feb 25, 2022 6:04 pm

also i once saw a laurel and hardy box set in hmv that was the length of an entire shelf. that was presumably quite comprehensive

Post by **dng** » Fri Feb 25, 2022 6:04 pm

or maybe made up entirely of videotapes

Post by **dng** » Fri Feb 25, 2022 6:05 pm

but they're presumably way beyond the scope of all this

Post by **dng** » Fri Feb 25, 2022 6:06 pm

oh wait there's one i could watch it seems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lucky_Dog

Post by **vom** » Fri Feb 25, 2022 6:07 pm

dng wrote: Fri Feb 25, 2022 6:02 pm I still haven't watched any harold lloyd films, shamefully. but i will at some point i promise

I think I've only seen two films and one short but they were all pretty fantastic

I've hardly seen any Laurel & Hardy but I did watch a short film where Oliver Hardy gets a crab stuck in his trousers while on top of some scaffolding and it was brilliant

Post by **dng** » Fri Feb 25, 2022 6:08 pm

i will watch anything with crabs in it

Post by **dng** » Fri Feb 25, 2022 6:08 pm

and/or scaffolding

Post by **vom** » Fri Feb 25, 2022 6:08 pm

you won't be able to watch it for seven years though :'-(

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_(1929_film)

Post by **dng** » Fri Feb 25, 2022 6:10 pm

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Feb 26, 2022 1:46 am

dng wrote: Fri Feb 25, 2022 6:02 pm I still haven't watched any harold lloyd films, shamefully. but i will at some point i promise

Personally, I think some sort of binding contract is in order...

Post by **dng** » Sat Feb 26, 2022 7:17 pm

The Blacksmith (1921 and also 1922)

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... 1921-1922/

Buster Keaton does it all (as long as it sort of vaguely involves metal in some way)

Post by **blombluss** » Sun Feb 27, 2022 2:50 pm

Nice one, Davuss, and the James Mason bit was an interestin' factoid, also.

Post by **vom** » Sun Feb 27, 2022 7:50 pm

I just watched Cops. I vaguely remember feeling a bit disappointed by this one the first time I saw it, but I do not know why, because it is brilliant

Post by **vom** » Sun Feb 27, 2022 7:51 pm

The bit where the policeman who owns the furniture locks Buster inside a box made me laugh and laugh

Post by **dng** » Sun Feb 27, 2022 8:29 pm

yes. lovely stuff

Post by **dng** » Sun Feb 27, 2022 10:26 pm

The Frozen North

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... orth-1922/

Buster Keaton murders people in this one. It's quite shocking really

Post by **vom** » Sun Feb 27, 2022 11:09 pm

this is another one I only got around to seeing last year. as I recall*, I thought it was excellent

* letterboxd used instead of actual memory

Post by **dng** » Sun Feb 27, 2022 11:21 pm

yeah i thought it was fun. but i still can't believe buster keaton murdered people! i was genuinely shocked

Post by **dng** » Sun Feb 27, 2022 11:21 pm

i will always be shocked

Post by **dng** » Sun Feb 27, 2022 11:23 pm

but then i saw it was because this entire film was an elaborate way to call the man that almost got fatty arbuckle murdered by the state by lying about his crimes a wanker, so maybe i'll forgive him

Post by **dng** » Mon Feb 28, 2022 3:43 pm

Daydreams

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... eams-1922/

Buster Keaton is poor at his job

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Mar 01, 2022 12:37 am

I wish I was runnang in a steamboat wheel.

Also, sterling film documentin', squire!

Post by **dng** » Tue Mar 01, 2022 4:09 pm

The Electric House (1922)

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... ouse-1922/

In which Buster Keaton invents the sushi restaurant conveyor belt system, among other things

Post by **dng** » Wed Mar 02, 2022 5:55 pm

These films aren't 100 years old at all: The Balloonatic (1923) / The Love Nest (1923)

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... nest-1923/

The end of Buster Keaton (or at least my box set of Buster Keaton)

Post by **vom** » Wed Mar 02, 2022 5:57 pm

Post by **dng** » Wed Mar 02, 2022 5:58 pm

i am out of control

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Mar 02, 2022 7:46 pm

Everything will now have to be recalibrated...

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Mar 02, 2022 7:49 pm

re: https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... nest-1923/

Keaton's hair and berad is very 'on trend'.

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Mar 02, 2022 7:52 pm

re: https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... ouse-1922/

And to think that people once believed that in the future houses would be electrified! Stupid 1920s fools!

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Mar 02, 2022 7:53 pm

Also - I enjoyed the reviews, David.

Post by **dng** » Wed Mar 02, 2022 8:26 pm

Hooray. Thank you

Post by **dng** » Fri Mar 04, 2022 8:06 pm

To make up for my recent blasphemous behaviour, here's nosferatu, exactly 100 years old today

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... nosferatu/

lovely nosferatu

Post by **vom** » Fri Mar 04, 2022 8:24 pm

hooray

Post by **vom** » Fri Mar 04, 2022 8:24 pm

I last watched this in Derby cathedral

Post by **dng** » Fri Mar 04, 2022 9:30 pm

The only safe place

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Mar 05, 2022 12:24 am

It's six pm on the skelebone clock - here is the news.

Also: "and had very known copy of it destroyed."

Should that be 'every known' copy?

Also: Good-o review product, squire!

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 05, 2022 1:23 am

it should be. thank you homfrus.

Post by **dng** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 11:08 pm

This film is 100 years old: Foolish Wives (1922)

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... ives-1922/

An actual proper review for once.

Post by **dng** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 11:14 pm

This was long (too long) and the end was very abrupt but also it was often very beautiful and strangely intense and i liked those bits a lot

Post by **dng** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 11:22 pm

Also having only seen Erich von Stroheim in Sunset Boulevard before, I had no idea just how sexy he was as a dashing (relatively) young man

Post by **dng** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 11:23 pm

I wish he'd have swindled me out of my fortune (£10) in 1920s France

Post by **endar** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 11:43 pm

He'd make a good Bond judging by the first pic

Post by **dng** » Sun Jul 10, 2022 11:27 am

Yes. Despite not being a spy film at all, there was something very bond about lots of it (casinos, evil Russians, womanising, tuxedos)

Post by **endar** » Sun Jul 10, 2022 12:54 pm

Navy commander?

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Post by **dng** » Sun Jul 10, 2022 4:16 pm

He just dresses up in various uniforms so he can look as sexy as possible, due to unscrupulous evil

Post by **dng** » Sun Jul 10, 2022 4:17 pm

And also because all 1920s women fall instantly in love with you

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Jul 23, 2022 11:32 pm

dng wrote: Sun Jul 10, 2022 4:17 pm And also because all 1920s women fall instantly in love with you

Watch out 1920s Louise Brooks - I'm building a time machine, and am wearing my second best pair of jeans!

Post by **vom** » Tue Aug 23, 2022 2:36 pm

just watched Lotte Reiniger's version of Cinderella on YouTube and noticed afterwards that it is ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD. should such a fact be useful

https://youtu.be/poq0bf6M8Z8

Post by **dng** » Tue Aug 23, 2022 4:25 pm

Hooray.

Post by **dng** » Tue Aug 23, 2022 4:25 pm

Lotte Reiniger is the absolute best really