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Location shooting in The Street of Forgotten Men - the Little Church Around...
On May 10th, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival will screen its new restoration of Herbert Brenon's The Street of Forgotten Men - Louise Brooks' little seen first film. More information about that...
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The Street of Forgotten Men - yet more trivia, some previously unknown
On May 10th, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival will screen its new restoration of Herbert Brenon's The Street of Forgotten Men - Louise Brooks' little seen first film. More information about that...
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The Street of Forgotten Men in Tulsa black and white
Not a negative review, but a negative photocopy from Tulsa, Oklahoma in August, 1925.Ā
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Films at the 2022 San Francisco Silent Film Festival
This year's San Francisco Silent Film Festival features a stellar line-up of films. Along with the debut of the restoration of Louise Brooks' first film, The Street of Forgotten Men (1925), there are a...
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Diary of a Lost Girl with Louise Brooks shows in the UK three times in May
The sensational 1929 Louise Brooks film, Diary of a Lost Girl, will be shown three times this month in the United Kingdom. And what's more, each of these screenings will feature live musical...
View ArticleThe Street of Forgotten Men in San Francisco and the Bay Area
On May 10th, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival will screen its new restoration of Herbert Brenon'sĀ The Street of Forgotten Men. The Festival screening marks a return to The City for the once well...
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WINGS screens in Cleveland, Ohio at Cleveland Silent Film Festival
The inaugural Cleveland Silent Film Festival and Colloquium, which kicks off this weekend, will screen Wings, one of the great films of the silent era. Along with Wings, the Festival is also set to...
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San Francisco's The Street of Forgotten Men
Someone once said, "all history is local." If true, then that applies to the movies, and film history. It also follows that film criticism is more than what reviewers in New York or Los Angeles might...
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The Street of Forgotten Men Restoration Credits - Thanks Tim Moore
In just a bit, I will be heading out the door on my way to San Francisco and the San Francisco Silent Film Festival (about a two hour drive), where I will attend the premiere of the new restoration of...
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Report on The Street of Forgotten Men at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Ā Not only was it great to see the newly restored Louise Brooks film, The Street of Forgotten Men, on the big screen at the Castro Theater, it was also swell to see old friends and make a few new ones...
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At the end of The Street of Forgotten Men, Louise Brooks first film, a clue
As mentioned in my previous post, the new restoration of The Street of Forgotten Men was well received when it was shown recently at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. The large crowd responded...
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Louise Brooks film It's the Old Army Game to screen in Denver, Colorado
Louise Brooks is happy to return to Denver, where she first appeared in person in 1922as a member of the Denishawn Dance CompanyAfter a two-year hiatus, the Denver Silent Film Festival is set to return...
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Louise Brooks Wants to Film in Norway
Norwegian film buff and researcher Tor Lier came across an interesting article about Louise Brooks which he generously allowed me to share here on the Louise Brooks Society blog. The article, "Louise...
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Louise Brooks film Beggars of Life screens in UK June 8
The 1928 Louise Brooks film, Beggars of Life, will be shown at the Studio, Hull Truck Theatre in Hull, England on June 8. Musical accompaniment will be provided by Jonny Best, who will improvise his...
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Louise Brooks - Getting it wrong again and again
There is all kinds ofĀ misinformation about Louise Brooks and her films. Some of it goes way back, to the 1920s, and some of it is only a few days old. There are factual errors, like getting a date...
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Louise Brooks as Lulu in Pandora's Box screens 3 times in July
What's better than one screening of Louise Brooks as Lulu in Pandora's Box? How about two screenings? And what's better than two screenings? How about three screenings! In July, the British Film...
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These Movie People, by Dan Thomas - Louise Brooks edition
In the 1920s, Dan Thomas was a syndicated movie columnist whose articles appeared in newspapers across the country. Thomas' pieces were less gossipy than other columnists, and usually more substantial....
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Back at it, with a new Louise Brooks treasure in hand
I haven't blogged in a month, taking a bit of time off in order to work on my current book project, The Street of Forgotten Men: From Story to Screen. It is coming along splendidly, and I have...
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Louise Brooks in the summertime on Instagram
I hadn't realized how many pictures I have of "Louise Brooks in the summertime" when I started a recentĀ series of posts on the Louise Brooks Society account on Instagram. (That account, by the way,...
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The Loves of Lulu - the First American Lulu (not Louise Brooks) part 1
Recently, while doing some research on Louise Brooks' first film, The Street of Forgotten Men, I came across a 1925 magazine clipping mentioning the The Loves of Lulu, which reportedly was the first...
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