The Old Blue Box

Been a very bad, bad boy when it comes to checking out Dreamwidth. Sorry... To compensate, here's some random stuff.

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Recently watched Louis J. Gasnier and George Cukor's The Virtuous Sin, which is a pretty serviceable romdramedy (romantic comedy-drama, which is a subject matter that should not work, yet somehow kinda does). Victor's actor is destroying the ever-loving-fuck out of the scenery with his mashers, though. He's the worst part.

Anyway, the reason I watched it was, essentially, very shallow. Paramount had a German version made. And in the role of General Platoff, we have Conrad Veidt. And I want it so bad.

I want to see him go from "Ironface" (Eisengesicht?)


To whatever this is


I want to see him hold a coat to the air and throw documents at people and play with and throw around a riding crop (yes, I know Kaiserin exists but you know he would do it completely different here). I want to hear him say those lines! I want to see him on the seesaw! The seesaw! And that uniform...

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E. from Villain by Accident posted the first part of their analysis of Veidt's second stay in Hollywood, mostly about Escape.

I'm having trouble with stumfilm.dk at the moment, but they recently published an article about new soundtracks for silent films made by music students!

Movies 'n' stuff: FilmotecaUNAM's playlist of silent films, Cinematheque's HENRI platform (watched Musidora's Vicenta on there), Elonet for Finnish films, MOSFilm for that Soviet stuff. The EYE is supreme.