Saturday, November 23, 2024

Around the Blogosphere This Week

Miscellaneous bits of news and fun stuff from around the Internet...

...Kino Lorber Studio Classics has announced a January 28th release date for HOUSEBOAT (1958) on Blu-ray.

...Releasing on Blu-ray this week from Kino Lorber: THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES (1980) starring Rock Hudson and Roddy McDowall.

...Fans of the Automat (and the 2021 documentary by that name) may be interested to know there is now a Horn & Hardart company online selling Automat branded merchandise, including coffee, mugs, and t-shirts.

...I just learned that earlier this year the Los Angeles Public Library purchased the Angel City Press.

...Karen reviews the book FROM THE MOMENT THEY MET, IT WAS MURDER by Alain Silver and James Ursini at Shadows and Satin.

...Cookbook news: Coming next March from Molly Yeh, SWEET FARM! Her previous books are MOLLY ON THE RANGE and HOME IS WHERE THE EGGS ARE.

...Review time! Tynan of 4 Star Films reviews Joan Fontaine and Joan Leslie in BORN TO BE BAD (1950)...Jessica of Comet Over Hollywood reviews Harriet Hilliard and the Andrews Sisters in SWINGTIME JOHNNY (1943)...At The Hannibal 8 Toby reviews the new Looney Tunes Collector's Choice Volumes 1-4 collection. I'll be reviewing Volume 4 here soon...And Ruth takes a look at THE CANTERVILLE GHOST (1944) at Silver Screenings.

...Attention Southern Californians: Several Christmas movies will be shown at the Old Town Music Hall in El Segundo over the next few weeks, including THE BISHOP'S WIFE (1947) and I'LL BE SEEING YOU (1944) introduced by CHRISTMAS IN THE MOVIES author Jeremy Arnold on December 7th.

...Birthday remembrance: Ellen Drew was born November 23, 1914. Please visit my birthday tribute to the actress, which is packed with lovely photos as well as movie review links.

...Notable Passing: Special effects artist Colin Chilvers (SUPERMAN) has died at 79.

...For additional recent links of interest to classic film fans, please visit my November 16th column.  Happy Thanksgiving!

posted by Laura @ 8:20 PM 

1 Comments:

Blogger Walter S. said...

Laura, have you heard about the finding of 4 of the 5 reels of John Ford's THE SCARLET DROP(1918) in a warehouse in Santiago, Chile last year. It was screened September 30, 2024, at the Valparaiso Recovered Film Festival in Chile. Why are we just finding out about this today? I went to YouTube and a trailer was there, put out by the Valparaiso Recovered Film Festival in September. When I clicked on it there had been 608 views. The last time I looked it was up to 718 views. I'm almost sure most of the views have been today.

The mainstream media is calling THE SCARLET DROP a lost film, although 3 reels of the movie are at the Getty Images Archive. At least in Chile the movie was screened where people could finally get to see it. We have Jaime Cordova director of the festival to thank for the screening of this movie.

This remarkable story that is finally seeing the light of day is amazing. The warehouse where the movie was found was to be demolished. A call was placed to Jame Cordova, and he got busy. The warehouse had been owned by a movie collector who died over 40 years ago.

You just never know where an almost complete so-called lost movie will turn up. I'm excited about this and I hope we'll be able to see it someday.

10:18 PM  

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