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AND... this just in, from my colleague Vic! Another rediscovery, another premiere for the January event at BFI: News just in. We have an additional extra for the show in January: a recently recovered 3 minute film of The Boys, opening a Gymkhana in Eastwood Park, Scotland, 21st June 1947 (see photo ...

On January 30, 2013, BFI Southbank will screen the looong version (or, a long version? With this film, one never knows!) of Atoll K . Should be a fantastic opportunity to see the definitive version (favored by William K. Everson and exhaustively documented by Norbert Aping), in the English dub featu...

This Sunday, the wonderful Bonner Sommerkino in Bonn, Germany will screen Pat & Patachon's freshly restored Swedish feature, Polis Paulus’ påskasmäll : http://www.foerderverein-filmkultur.de/pat-und-patachon-als-polizisten-polis-paulus-paskamsmall/ Shoudl be a treat, especially with Stephen Horn...

28 days of fundraising left to go... the campaign site (as linked above -http://www.indiegogo.com/colorprocesses) now also has a video report from Swiss television - click CC to activate English subtitles. Spread the word...!

Uli

Slightly OT? Perhaps a little since most silent and classic film conedy is BW, then again, there's even a color system named after Mack Sennett, and I guess one of the few reasons to watch Supercinecolor is the team of Abbott and Costello! Anyways, an extensive database on Historical Film Colors pai...

This coming Tuesday, a rare chance to experience PLAYTIME in its full 70mm splendor in the newly opened EYE in Amsterdam, Netherlands: http://www.filmmuseum.nl/playtime-70-mm Also, as part of a Scorsese retrospective, KING OF COMEDY on April 16: http://www.filmmuseum.nl/the-king-of-comedy Uli

Well, I admire both Étaix and Tati and luckily we don't have to choose -- but it's true that they are much more different than their mutual influence and shared comic (gag and sound) techniques suggest at first sight. It also appears to me that Étaix is best appreciated once you know other works of ...

Hi everyone, thanks for chiming in, wow! What a treasure trove of information. My friend is researching previously undocumented appearances by Charles Gemora, but he's well aware of and interested in all the other Hollywood gorilla men, too. Which makes the information and credits listed here all th...

Perhaps I should leave it to Chris to bring this up while he's in the process of becoming the English speaking world's leading Franco and Ciccio expert ... but Ciccio and Vincent Price do a brief version of this in Mario Bava's Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs - or at least in the original Italian ve...

The subject says it all - a question on behalf of a good friend and researcher - does anyone know about whether this title survives and has been available on 16mm, VHS, DVD? Reviews, plot summaries and the like would be of great help, too.

Thanks,

Uli