The Late Show
It’s started!
Unfortunately, I haven’t. Not a single film has been viewed, not a single article written. Nevertheless, I do not intend to disappoint you. Screening tonight is a special birthday showing of CLUNY BROWN, Ernst Lubitsch’s last completed movie (and a beauty!), put on by our friend Nicola, and I will be there. Meanwhile, the call goes out for entries, and I get busy…
Our Blogathon may be small, but what there is, is cherce.
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December 1, 2012 at 1:25 pm
Intending to pen a piece on Donat’s third to last film, The Magic Box. Please nag me, hassle me and generally make my life miserable until I do it!
December 1, 2012 at 1:52 pm
Consider yourself nagged! It’s a lovely film, with just the right elegiac tone for the occasion.
December 1, 2012 at 4:11 pm
I couldn’t do Playmates (it would far too painful for a Barrymore fan), but I would be willing to write something on The Furies, Walter Huston’s last film. Could I email it to you for your consideration – like last year?
December 1, 2012 at 4:23 pm
Yes please! All entries are welcome, whether by email or via other blogs. I look forward to it — and I have the Criterion disc so I can illustrate it.
December 1, 2012 at 4:33 pm
Anatole Litvak’s Coeur de Lilas (1932), filmed, when not on location in Paris, in the Pathé-Natan studios. The “late” quotient is supplied by the heartbreaking Marcelle Romée.
December 1, 2012 at 4:39 pm
Wow — you’re going to write this? Yes please!
December 2, 2012 at 2:33 pm
On December 8 on Dennis Cooper’s site I’ll be running one of my periodic “Le Pettit Mac-Mahon de David Ehrenstein” entires. This one is a triple-feature of Tom Schiller’s Nothing Lasts Forever, Gregory Markpoulos’ Twice a Man and Jacques Rivette’s Duelle. Consider it a day-late contribution to this Blogathon.
December 2, 2012 at 3:02 pm
Thank you, an honour!
December 3, 2012 at 12:28 am
For Grand Old Movies, I’m writing on Zeppo Marx and Duck Soup, something a little different for the Blogathon. Will put the link in a comment when it’s ready.
December 3, 2012 at 1:46 am
Great! There’s a whole heck of a lot to say about that movie!
December 3, 2012 at 7:50 pm
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December 3, 2012 at 7:54 pm
Hi – here’s an update – I’ve posted at Grand Old Movies my Late Show blogathon post, on Zeppo & Duck Soup – here’s the direct link – thanks!:
December 3, 2012 at 9:32 pm
Oops, I haven’t time to participate this year. Here are a few Late Films I’d written up earlier in 2012, then. As usual for me, the writeups are little more than plot descriptions with massive spoilers, so I suggest simply browsing over the pretty pictures.
The Saga of Anatahan (late Sternberg)
http://deeperintomovies.net/journal/archives/7632
Queen Kelly (late Stroheim – the director, not the actor)
http://deeperintomovies.net/journal/archives/7753
The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (late Lang)
http://deeperintomovies.net/journal/archives/8071
This one breaks the rules, but I’ve found little written about it so it may be of interest – Agnes Varda’s 2011 miniseries
http://deeperintomovies.net/journal/archives/7875
December 3, 2012 at 11:08 pm
Superb, thanks!
December 4, 2012 at 12:25 pm
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December 4, 2012 at 3:39 pm
Hello! I wrote an entry about “The Unholy Three,” Lon Chaney’s last film, at my blog, In the Dark:
http://moviedavid.blogspot.com/2012/07/awkward-early-talkie-theatre-unholy.html
Thanks!
December 4, 2012 at 10:33 pm
David – Sorry I didn’t find out about this sooner (I would have talked it up on the blog) but here’s my contribution to the ‘thon:
http://thrillingdaysofyesteryear.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-late-show-harder-they-fall-1956.html
December 4, 2012 at 11:03 pm
Thanks! Look forward to reading. I’ll post a piece linking to this soon.
December 7, 2012 at 2:15 pm
Mine is finally done! On the last day, too, because I have a reputation to maintain
http://shebloggedbynight.com/2012/the-late-movies-blogathon-10-laps-to-go-1936/
Thanks David!
December 7, 2012 at 2:32 pm
Thank you! Will link to it on the front page as soon as I get in from work. Looking forward to reading it also.
December 7, 2012 at 6:48 pm
Here’s my contribution to the blogathon:
http://mythicalmonkey.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-private-life-of-don-juan-douglas.html
December 7, 2012 at 8:10 pm
Thanks! Will link via a front page post shortly.