Carátula de «El pájaro azul» (USA/URSS 1976) de George Cukor, con Elizabeth Taylor Hay canalillo Gustará a: RCD Espanyol, animistas, Paulo Coelho No gustará a: sinAzucar.org, Stella Browne, abraza árboles 3.6/10

Estilo «El Mago de Oz» pero en lugar de adorable, inquietante.

🎭Fantasía
🎬George Cukor: 19/20
🔢1976: 38/40
🔢All Time: 4647/4841
🎟️Filmoteca, 2025-09-24

#TheBlueBird #GeorgeCukor #ElizabethTaylor #PatsyKensit #GeorgeCole #CicelyTyson #JaneFonda #AvaGardner #NadezhdaPavlova #criticasinfames

4th Wall breaking in 1918! #SilentFlickerSunday #TheBlueBird

I get the feeling that the people who made “Peter Pan” (1924) sat down and watched “The Blue Bird” (1918) A LOT
#SilentFlickerSunday #TheBlueBird

The score is based on the music used in the American version of the 1908 play but it was re-recorded for the home media release
#SilentFlickerSunday #TheBlueBird

The score to this is wild. Any idea if it is original to the film?
#SilentFlickerSunday #TheBlueBird #MauriceTourneur #SilentFilm

Maeterlinck’s “The Blue Bird” was actually the most popular children’s fantasy story in film, theater and radio before adaptations of “Peter Pan” and “The Wizard of Oz” started being made. After that and the fairy tale adaptations from Disney, it fell into obscurity
#SilentFlickerSunday #TheBlueBird

Human Animal acts (as in humans dressing like/acting like animals) were big on vaudeville and live theater and that carried over to the #SilentFilm era as well. Think of them as the Motion Capture of the day only without those weird pajama-things
#SilentFlickerSunday #TheBlueBird

Idk how much the flame/fire effects where intentional or how much are b/c of damage to this film. Combined they really make for a great image nonetheless
#SilentFlickerSunday #TheBlueBird

That's not a party, they just left Kevin home alone again.
#SilentFlickerSunday #TheBlueBird #MauriceTourneur #SilentFilm

“The Blue Bird” (1918) is based on the 1908 Belgian fairy tale play “L'Oiseau Bleu” written by Belgian playwright and poet Maurice Maeterlinck. You can read the play (in English) in its entirety here (archive.org/details/blue...)
#SilentFlickerSunday #TheBlueBird #MauriceMaeterlinck

I didn’t mean to go with a “dream-y fantasy” theme for this week’s #SilentFlickerSunday that just sort of happened
#BrumesDAutomne #AutumnMists #TheBlueBird #Film1965 #Ghost1986

I hope Daddy Tyl isn't accosted by hundreds of beavers out there.
#SilentFlickerSunday #TheBlueBird #MauriceTourneur #SilentFilm

And now our feature presentation: “The Blue Bird” (1918) directed by Maurice Tourneur (tinyurl.com/yaxr86hy)
#SilentFlickerSunday #TheBlueBird #MauriceTourneur #SilentFilm

Pen drawing of a young Nadia Sibirskaia wearing a headband drawn on a green Post-It note.

Pen drawing of Tula Belle and Robin Macdougall wearing period garb and glancing to the right with smiles on their faces drawn on a torn-out book page.

Pen drawing of an older Buster Keaton wearing an eyepatch and a straw Vaudeville hat drawn on a black background.

Hey Silent Flicker Sunday crew! Sadly can't watch along tonight, but still drew some new art inspired by Autumn Mists, The Blue Bird, Film, and a portrait of Ghost director Takashi Ito to celebrate tonight's Avant-Garde presentation!

#SilentFlickerSunday #AutumnMists #TheBlueBird #Film #Ghost #Art

Interior, hole in the wall pizza joint, empty, booth bench lining the wall, checkerboard floor, ceiling fans, graffiti covering everything. Looking out front window & door.

Pizza place where I'm waiting to pick up an order. Graffiti all over the walls & booths, since we're next door to a famous old rock club.
#RockitsPizza
#TheBluebird
#BloomingtonIN
#TheGulch

Also, yes, it should probably be #TheBlueBird, but Siri took it down and #TheBluebird and it didn't seem to deserve constant correction every time I skytweeted.

Frankly, just fascinated (in a morbid way) with this version of the #TheBluebird. Big names like that, and it looked like an amateur production. They all seemed like they were gritting their teeth the whole time.

This is not entirely true. I did feel something: enervated. I had to take to my bed for a long nap. #TheBluebird

This version makes even less sense than the Shirley Temple version. #TheBluebird

That was definitely one of the films ever made. #TheBluebird

Did Liz ever work with kids other than this? Not counting when she was a kids, obviously. Because she does not seem into it. #TheBluebird

I’m meant to feel sad right now, but I don’t feel a damn thing. #TheBluebird

Nice that Milk and Bread and Sugar are promising to always be there, but these kids are gonna eat them. #TheBluebird

Tyltyl learning some lessons about striving to get your hands on happiness. #TheBluebird

Boy, these kids are not into it. #TheBluebird

The land of unborn children has arrived. #TheBluebird

More than once I have bust out laughing at various actors’ choices. #TheBluebird

All of a sudden it’s The Poseidon Adventure. #TheBluebird

So Sugar is eating sugar. Eagerly. 😳 #TheBluebird

Interpretive dance now. It seems increasingly unlikely that I’m gonna make it through this movie without drinking. #TheBluebird