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Some Snapshots from this Year's San Francisco Silent Film Festival
This year's San Francisco Silent Film Festival has been a lot of fun. I've gotten to see old friends (like film historians Donna Hill, John Bengston, Mary Mallory, and David Kiehn) and make new ones...
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Those were the days . . .
Robert Birchard's death late last month led me to recall the event I put on with him some years ago. I was working at a bookstore at the time, and the event was to promote his then new release Cecil B....
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Louise Brooks in “Pandora’s Box” screens June 9 in NYC
Pandora’s Box (1929), starring Louise Brooks, will be screened on June 9, 2016 at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Harlem in New York City. More information HERE and HERE.Pandora’s Box (1929), Dir. G....
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Pandora's Box screens in Yorkshire, England on July 10
As part of its crowdfunding campaign for its inaugural event, the Yorkshire Silent Film Festival has announced that it will be showing the 1929 Louise Brooks film Pandora's Box not once, but twice...
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Paramount ballyhoo for Louise Brooks in late 1925
Though Louise Brooks had only appeared in one uncredited bit part for Paramount by late 1925 (The Street of Forgotten Men), the studio had enough belief in the actress and her star potential that they...
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Surrealist Love Goddesses: LOUISE BROOKS: DIARY OF A LOST GIRL plays in...
Later, today, the 1929 Louise Brooks' film Diary of a Lost Girl will be shown in Austin, Texas. The Austin Film Society screening is set to take place at 7:30 p.m. Here are the event details:Surrealist...
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Louise Brooks in a constellation of stars
Louise Brooks in a constellation of stars . . . .
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Louise Brooks and the controversy over her garter
In late 1934, a small controversy broke out over a series of "risque" photographs which appeared in newspapers around the country. One of those images involved Louise Brooks adjusting her garter, which...
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3rd Silent Film Festival in Thailand
Both the Hollywood Reporter (Thailand issue) and the Bangkok Post ran an article about the 3rd annual Silent Film Festival in Thailand. The Bangkok Post article is titled "Let's hear it for silence :...
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Louise Brooks in Movies and Conduct
By 1932, Louise Brooks' career was on the decline. She would appear in no films that year, and fewer and fewer magazine or newspaper articles bothered to mention her. The few that did were more often...
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Sigmund Freud, John Huston, and Louise Brooks (& not-Ghoulardi)
Here's an odd one. . . . While doing some Louise Brooks research I came up with one of the strangest finds I have ever come across, linking Sigmund Freud, director John Huston, and the 1929 Louise...
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Bill Berkson, In Memorium (1939-2016) - poet and Louise Brooks devotee
Bill Berkson, acclaimed poet and and friend to the Louise Brooks Society, passed away early today (June 16th). Berkson was a writer, art critic and curator of considerable accomplishment. He was also a...
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Louise Brooks as "Lulu the Sinful"
I, for one, am pleased that there is thaw in relations between the United States and Cuba. I am especially looking forward to increasing cultural and scholarly exchange between the two countries. This...
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A double bill featuring Louise Brooks on this day in 1937
On this date in 1937, the Lincoln Theater in San Francisco presented a special double bill, When You're in Love together with Empty Saddles, starring Buck Jones and L. Brooks. I wish I could have been...
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Finding Louise Brooks in the non-English language press in the USA
Over the years, I have had the chance to look at a handful of non-English language newspapers published in the United States. I've looked at German, Yiddish, Spanish, and Russian-language papers and...
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Louise Brooks: data mining, visualization and the Media History Digital Library
Arclight is a data mining and visualization tool for film and media history that allow users to analyze millions of pages of digitally scanned magazines (notably film and trade publications) and...
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My recent trip to London in search of Louise Brooks (pre-Brexit)
[This post was originally run on May 17th.] A small part of my recent trip to London was devoted to silent film and Louise Brooks. I am glad I went when I did, back in April before the Brexit vote,...
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Homage to George W. Lighton of Kentucky, idealistic silent film buff who...
I continue to find fascinating bits about Louise Brooks and her times. . . . Earlier today, for example, I came across a letter to the editor published on January 2, 1931 in a Louisville, Kentucky...
View ArticlePolish Tango 1935: Ach zostań (Oh, Stay!) by Adam Aston
This is pretty atmospheric: A Polish Tango from 1935 - "Ach zostań" ("Oh, Stay!") by Adam Aston, featuring some nice video visuals. Adam Aston can be heard on RadioLulu.Adam Aston & Orkiestra...
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Pandora's Box starring Louise Brooks screens in Sheffield on July 10
As part of its crowdfunding campaign for its inaugural event, the Yorkshire Silent Film Festival has announced that it will be showing the 1929 Louise Brooks film Pandora's Box not once, but twice...
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