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Roberto Baldazzini's Hollywoodland published in France
Roberto Baldazzini's Hollywoodland, a graphic novel originally published in Italy in 2019, has just been published in France. The cover of the new French edition is picture below. Additional...
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Three Louise Brooks films among best of all time, according to 1932 French...
Today, lists of the best films are commonplace. There are lists of the all-time best movies (usually headed by Orson Welles'Citizen Kane), the best comedies, the best dramas, best film noir, best...
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Adolpho Bioy Casares on Louise Brooks, Marion Davies, silent comedians,...
Today, Adolpho Bioy Casares (1914 – 1999) is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century; Bioy, as he is called, was an Argentine fiction writer, diarist, and translator. He was...
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More on Adolfo Bioy Casares and Louise Brooks
Along with having mentioned Louise Brooks in two interviews (see previous blog), the Argentine writer Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914 – 1999) also wrote about her in his memoir and his diaries. In his...
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Can you find the Louise Brooks film in this Czech page of movie ads?
Faust and Ben Hur and Battleship Potemkin -- as well as films starring Pola Negri and Gloria Swanson! Can you find the Louise Brooks film in this Czech page of movie ads? It comes from Prague, and...
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A few fascinating non-Louise Brooks finds
While researching Louise Brooks for my forthcoming book, Around the World with Louise Brooks, I too often come across all sorts of intriguing articles and images which have little or nothing to do with...
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Interesting reading, and another fascinating non-Louise Brooks find
Here is some more interesting reading, and another fascinating non-Louise Brooks find. It is an article published in an English film magazine by Basil Wright titled "Who Killed the Vamp?" By this time,...
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G. W. Pabst gripes about censorship of his two Louise Brooks films
While looking through Parisian newspapers while working on Around the World with Louise Brooks (my forthcoming two volume transnational look at Brooks' career), I came across a couple of noteworthy...
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Need help translating table of contents of Japanese film book with a chapter...
I need help translating the table of contents of a Japanese film book from the late 1920s. If I understand correctly, one of the 30 chapters from this book concerns Clara Bow and Louise Brooks! Can...
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Louise Brooks podcasts - past and forthcoming
There have been a few Louise Brooks related podcasts in the past. The most recent streamed just a few days ago, on Soundcloud. It is titled "The Fire in the Eyes of Louise Brooks," episode #262, from...
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A Couple Three Nifty New Finds From Around the World with Louise Brooks
While continuing to write and research my forthcoming book, Around the World with Louise Brooks, I continue to come across remarkable stuff. Last night, for example, while researching the 1930 French...
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Nothing and everything to do with Louise Brooks
As part of my ongoing series of posts on recently found material - some of it related to Louise Brooks, some of it not - I am showing here a couple of pages which I just recently came across and which...
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Stephen Horne spellbound in darkness, and silents
Musical accompanist Stephen Horne is a longtime friend, not only to myself but also to Louise Brooks and the Louise Brooks Society. In fact, he has probably accompanied the screening of a Louise Brooks...
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Talking Louise Brooks and Diary of a Lost Girl on the Cinematary podcast
I was recently a guest on Cinematary, a podcast devoted to film history & film criticism. On episode #359, I spoke about Louise Brooks and her sensational 1929 film Diary of a Lost Girl. Check it...
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New release - Beggars of Life out on DVD and Blu-ray in Spain
I've just noticed that the 1928 film, Beggars of Life, has just been released on DVD and Blu-ray in Spain under the title Mendigos de Vida, which was the title the film was originally shown under in...
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A Louise Brooks musical tribute from Rick Gallego & Cloud Eleven
Recently, I received a CD in the mail from independent recording artist Rick Gallego. His latest record is titled Pandora's Box (Kool Kat Musik). Rick enclosed a brief note that read, "Hi Thomas,...
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Mary Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985)
Remembering Mary Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985), known professionally as Louise Brooks. From my collection of fan art."The Magic of Lulu"by Ana Rosa acrylic on 11" x 14" board, 2003
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Cinecon schedule announced
For more than half a century, Cinephiles have gathered in over Labor Day Weekend to celebrate the movies at the annual Cinecon Classic Film Festival. As Hollywood's longest running classic film...
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More on the Cinecon schedule
Yesterday's post sketched this year's schedule for the Cinecon Classic Film Festival. The annual event, which takes place in Hollywood, has moved online due to the ongoing pandemic. All films will be...
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Memoirs of a silent film loving bookseller, as told through "baseball" cards,...
This post is a kind of sidebar to a long and heavily illustrated piece I wrote called "One booksellers memoirs, told through 'baseball' cards." The piece is awaiting publication, when and if it is...
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