Comments on "Give me the good old days!": Capitolfest 2011 - August 12th-14th!

The look on their faces (three photos up) is HILAR...

2012-02-04T08:33:18.221-05:00

The look on their faces (three photos up) is HILARIOUS!

WOW! That's incredible. I would LOVE to see ...

2011-08-16T07:21:40.037-04:00

WOW! That's incredible. I would LOVE to see that slide.

It's amazing how that myth of El Brendel has permeated people's thinking and then when you actually ask them, "What films have you seen him in", they usually reply, "oh, just one". I don't know how you can comment on an entire film career by just seeing one film but people continue to do it.

The Museum of Modern Art gave a magnificent Janet ...

2011-08-15T22:01:19.311-04:00

The Museum of Modern Art gave a magnificent Janet Gaynor retrospective here in Manhattan a few years ago and I haven't been the same person since, it changed my life. Now I agree with Bogdanovich that my favorite period for film is the transitional time between silents and sound. God, I feel like going to Syracuse. I love Janet Gaynor! I'm fascinated by El Brendel being the focus of this website, by the way. Many don't care for him at all, as I'm sure you know, and at MoMA, when they run the widescreen "The Big Trail" (a movie I see whenever they screen it no matter what), they precede it with an analytical slide that speaks of Brendel as "polluting" the films he was in and that many wished there was some way Brendel could be digitally removed from every movie! I swear I'm not making this up.

Will do !

2011-07-29T18:45:43.764-04:00

Will do !

Wish I could go, sounds like fun! Tell Art Pierce...

2011-07-29T16:47:45.724-04:00

Wish I could go, sounds like fun! Tell Art Pierce I said hello when you get there, Louie!