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Beggars of Life and other Louise Brooks films screen in Helsinki, Finland on...
The National Audiovisual Institute (KAVI) in Helsinki, Finland will screen Beggars of Life on October 12 and 15, 2017 to kick off their Louise Brooks series.Brooks is the focus of the four film series...
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Beggars of Life, with Louise Brooks, screens one month from today in Brooklyn
Beggars of Life (1928), starring Louise Brooks, screens one month from today in Brooklyn, New York. Here are the details.Those who check out the film may well want to check-out my new book, Beggars of...
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Diary of a Lost Girl, starring Louise Brooks, shows in NYC on October 14
Following a recent screening of Pandora's Box in NYC, it has now been announced that... Diary of a Lost Girl, starring Louise Brooks, will be shown at Film Forum in New York City on October 14 with...
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Pandora's Box, starring Louise Brooks, set to screen in Chicago in April, 2018
Pandora's Box, the sensational 1929 film starring Louise Brooks, is set to screen in Chicago, Illinois on April 3, 2018. The movie will be accompanied live by Jay Warren, Chicago's foremost pipe organ...
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TODAY: Beggars of Life screens in Helsinki, Finland
The National Audiovisual Institute (KAVI) in Helsinki, Finland will screen Beggars of Life on October 15, 2017 as the opening film in their ongoing Louise Brooks series.Brooks is the focus of the four...
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Some more new and recommended books on film: Paramount, Fox, comedies and SEX
Ahead of a longer review, here are a few more new books I wish to recommend to fans of Louise Brooks as well as those interested in the silent and early sound film era. Each title provides valuable...
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Diary of a Lost Girl with Louise Brooks screens in Helsinki, Finland on...
The National Audiovisual Institute (KAVI) in Helsinki, Finland will screen Diary of a Lost Girl on October 19 and 21, 2017 as part of their ongoing Louise Brooks series.Brooks is the focus of the four...
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Book face with Louise Brooks (and F. Scott Fitzgerald)
If you look through YouTube and Vimeo, you'll find a bunch of book face clips. It's where an individual will place a book (featuring a portrait or face on its cover) over their own face in order to...
View ArticleArt Spiegelman talks silent film from Pordenone
Here are a couple of fascinating video clips of Pulitzer Prize winning comic artist Art Spiegelman (author of Maus) talking about silent film. Spiegelman has a well known love of early popular music....
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Help needed to identify actors, airplanes and landscapes from the 1927 Louise...
I am nearing completion of a project on the once "considered lost" 1927 Louise Brooks film, Now We're in the Air, and need help identifying a few of the actors, the model of airplanes, and perhaps even...
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Prix de beaute (Miss Europa) with Louise Brooks screens in Helsinki, Finland...
The National Audiovisual Institute (KAVI) in Helsinki, Finland will screen Prix de beaute (Miss Europa) on October 27 and 29, 2017 as part of their ongoing Louise Brooks series.Brooks is the focus of...
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TODAY: Beggars of Life starring Louise Brooks screens at Harvard
The Harvard Film Archive in Cambridge, Massachusetts has announced it will be hosting a major retrospective of the films of director William Wellman. The retrospective, "The Legends of William...
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Louise Brooks, William Wellman, and Beggars of Life in the news
Beggars of Life, the 1928 William Wellman directed film starring Louise Brooks, continues to make the news. The new Kino Lorber release of the film was written up by Leonard Maltin, who stated: Beggars...
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RadioLulu - the Louise Brooks Society's online streaming music station
Did you know that the Louise Brooks Society has its own online radio station? It's called RadioLulu. You can listen to using the Tune-In app, or using Winamp or the Windows Media Player, or, you can...
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Asta Nielsen, the first Lulu
From Wikipedia:"Asta Nielsen (11 September 1881 – 24 May 1972) was a Danish silent film actress who was one of the most popular leading ladies of the 1910s and one of the first international movie...
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Some RadioLulu Podcast Themes
A couple of days ago, I posted an admittedly longgggggggg blog regarding RadioLulu, the LBS sponsored, Louise Brooks-inspired, silent film-themed, internet only station streaming music of the 1920s,...
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A sneak peak at Documentary of a Lost Girl: Finding Louise Brooks
Here is a six minute sneak peak at Documentary of a Lost Girl, the forthcoming film about Louise Brooks by Charlotte Siller. It's impressive.From the filmmakers: "Documentary of a Lost Girl, due to be...
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Forthcoming NEW BOOK: Nothing Sacred: The Cinema Of William Wellman
If you ask film historians who are some of America’s greatest directors, they may suggest Orson Welles, Frank Capra, John Ford, Martin Scorsese, or Steven Spielberg. Other might put forth names such as...
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Émile Zola's Chanson de Lulu -- of interest to those who inhabit the Lulu-verse
I came across this sheet music online, and thought it might be of interest to those of us who inhabit the Lulu-verse. It is a song titled "Chanson de Lulu" by Émile Zola (words) and Alfred Bruneau...
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Beggars of Life, starring Louise Brooks, shows in Brooklyn on November 12
Beggars of Life, the acclaimed 1928 silent film starring Louise Brooks, will be shown today at the Brooklyn Public Library in Brooklyn, New York. An American silent film classic, Beggars of Life stars...
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