All for it as long as it’s not Monday or Friday.

Yeah that’s the word I should have squeezed into the character limit. Were you familiar before or is it new to you…

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Seeing the list of all the great 2001 albums I was the only @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social nominator for (or one of two or three) makes me want to be more proactive in promoting my 1988 prep “discoveries”. Like this incredible cassette-only release from that year, by a Bay Area avant-garde legend:

If I was in San Francisco I’d go here today!

Happy birthday, Tim Curry! I think this is the only thing I've written about him (as a professional). I had so much fun writing this one.

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I had just been discussing the first two locations at dinner last night (though it didn’t involve peeling at the map- I just know where they are)
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Seconded.

I have the answer. Everyone else can stop looking.

Pretty certain i nominated CURSE for the 1990 bracket, not sure I’ve heard this one yet.

In honor and memory of Nathalie Baye, whom I interviewed in 2002; her generosity was supreme; she called me, while on location, to talk—with great admiration—about her work with Godard: "It's impossible to be bad in one of his films. You see yourself onscreen as yourself."

They apparently did record a song about The White Stripes but maybe it shouldn’t count because Jack White was involved.

I thought Tenacious D must have written a song about Bob Dylan at some point but apparently they didn’t.

In case you missed it, I wrote about a PHANTOM OF THE OPERA screening at the Lincoln Theatre in Maine last month. It was an excuse for me to express some opinions about silent film accompaniment, and I also dug up a review of the film from when it played the Lincoln on first run in 1926!

Not bad for a day when the only site i’d heard of before is the one i’d visited!
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I’ve seen pretty decent 16mm Fleischer prints. 35mm much less commonly (and maybe not ever when it comes to Popeyes?)

Do they exclusively show 35mm cartoons or do 16mm ones slip in at times?

Famous era Popeyes notoriously poor. Sadly these are the ones my generation mostly saw on tv growing up. So if there’s a Gen X programmer there they might have more nostalgia for this crappy era than the good Fleischer era.

Not if you pronounce crustaceans like it rhymes with "mustache yens".

Centuries of Interpretation: Not-so-silent Phantom Haunts the Lincoln Brian Darr reports on the Damariscotta theatre's silent film series

My first article for a Pine Tree State-focused newsletter is about a midcoast Maine movie theatre celebrating its sesquicentennial with some silent films shown with live musical accompaniment:

I haven't been since I was a kid, but it's where my parents met so holds a warm place in my heart for that alone. One day I should visit...

Was the film that sold me on Wiseman for life!

Serious answer: I think TWO LITTLE RANGERS was made in and around Fort Lee by Alice Guy-Blaché’s studio Solax. Hudson River Palisades in 1912 certainly passes for the frontier. Decent fifteen-minute movie!

One of my last four was a Western too, albeit one filmed in New Jersey.

Would arguably be two, but I still haven’t gotten to logging the Australian semi-Western we watched Tuesday.

Grey elephant art vs. white elephant art rock

I will say I’m not 100% certain my heart wants that song (it’s an earworm, for good or ill), but at least in round one I tend to value distinctiveness.

Impressed you hit Jakarta spot-on! I got the right island but the wrong end.

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That can be a minefield but Vampyr isn’t even a silent film! It has a soundtrack with music and (minimal) dialogue! Though I’ve heard claims that there was a silent version prepared for 1932 cinemas not yet wired for sound, I’ve never seen conclusive evidence of that.

Yeah, and having strong feelings about that particular film going in may have been too big a barrier to surmount.

Luckily I had a press pass through the film festival so all I lost was time I would probably have spent watching a different movie instead.

I was there too, and thought that was a desecration. Their wall-of-sound, highly percussive approach had nothing to do with Carl Dreyer’s images, I felt.

Voted for them today anyway; “Nite and Fog” is by far the most memorable song competing today. (Probably the most memorable all week!)