#Kevin Brownlow

[frnndlcs]

Winstanley, Kevin Brownlow, 1975

#winstanley #kevin brownlow

[chaplinfortheages]

Happy 85th birthday to silent film Historian Kevin Brownlow.

After the DVD “Unknown Chaplin” produced in 1983 in my opinion the best documentary on Chaplin the artist, produced by Kevin Brownlow & David Gill - The book by Kevin Brownlow “The Search for Charlie Chaplin(2005) completes it.

What hell Kevin Brownlow & David Gill endured trying to produce this. They received the run around from Nelly Bly Baker (Chaplin secretary, masseuse in "A Woman of Paris") who ultimately did not give interview, Virginia Cherrill difficult to try to track down, Georgia Hale who really put them through the tortures, Kevin gave the impression she was a complete flake but she did the interview, a lot of insight. Charlie Chaplin’s own son Sydney wanted a fee - I believe he wanted $10,000 settled for $5,000. Lita Grey seemed to go the smoothest for them. I’ll have to re read this myself soon.

Kevin Brownlow and David Gill also produced the phenomenal documentary “Hollywood" (1980) a 13 part series on the Silent Film Era…just excellent

#charlie chaplin #kevin brownlow #silent film historian #“unknown chaplin” #documentary #1983 #“the search for charlie chaplin” #book #2005

[celebratetheclassics]

The Wind (Victor Sjöström, 1928)

“Although more of a psychological than a realistic study, and more impressionistic than documentary in its treatment, The Wind is filled with remarkably expressive detail. For an utterly unromantic view of life on the desert, this film is unequaled. Lillian Gish plays a delicate Virginia girl who comes to live with her cousin and finds the life intolerable. The wind howls symbolically around the tiny shack, until nerve ends are stretched to the breaking point.”

Kevin Brownlow, The War, the West and the Wilderness, 1979.

#kevin brownlow #victor sjöström #lillian gish #the wind #classic film #classicfilmsource #silent film #silent era #1920s #my gifs

[ozu-teapot]

The Moon Over The Alley | Joseph Despins | 1976

Patrick Murray, Lesley Roach

Date movie: It Happened Here

#Patrick Murray #Lesley Roach #It Happened Here #Kevin Brownlow #Andrew Mollo #Joseph Despins #The Moon Over The Alley #1976

[davidhudson]

Happy 85th, Kevin Brownlow.

It Happened Here (1964).

#kevin brownlow #cinema #film #movies

[oldshowbiz]

1969.

The alternate career of silent film historian Kevin Brownlow.

#kevin brownlow #silent film

[citizenscreen]

Happy birthday to historian/author/filmmaker/editor Kevin Brownlow

#kevin brownlow

[sesiondemadrugada]

Winstanley (Kevin Brownlow, 1975).

#kevin brownlow #winstanley #winstanley (1975) #ernest vincze #sarah ellis #andrew mollo #carmen mollo #miles halliwell #jerome willis #terry higgins #alison halliwell #flora skrine

[silentlondon]

Funny Valentines: Silent comedy at Slapstick 2023

Funny Valentines: Silent comedy at Slapstick 2023

This February, comedy fans will head west to Bristol, Unesco City of Film for the annual Slapstick Festival. As usual, there is plenty for fans of silent cinema in the programme, with stars from Charley Bowers to Harold Lloyd, Charlie Chaplin to Marlene Dietrich. Presenters include Kevin Brownlow, Steve Massa and Polly Rose, as well as the marvellous Ayşe Behçet, whose Charlie’s London posts you…

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#Ayse Behçet #Bristol #Buster Keaton #featured #Fred Karno #Gunter Buchwald #Harold Lloyd #John Sweeney #Kevin Brownlow #Laurel and Hardy #Lucy Porter #Marlene Dietrich #Raymond Griffith #Silent comedy #silent film #Slapstick Festival

[eshilftnurgewalt]

Winstanley [Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo]

#Winstanley #Kevin Brownlow #Andrew Mollo #British Cinema #Diggers #Gerrard Winstanley #BFI Production

[frnndlcs]

Winstanley, Kevin Brownlow, 1975

#winstanley #kevin brownlow

[videostorewonderland]

"The director of today yells to his staff, 'I need this-I want that.' The director of yesterday, if he wanted something special, often had to invent it."- Edward Sloman

#kevin brownlow #the parade's gone by #edward sloman #silent film

[liliana-von-k]

I was lucky enough to attend one of the screenings of Abel Gance's Napoleon in 2011, and let me tell you, it was a life-changing experience. I wasn't the same person when I exited the Paramount Theatre as I had been when I entered it.

Add to that the fact that the day before, I got to meet my longtime hero Kevin Brownlow, who was the absolute personification of kindness and charm itself. Over a decade later, I still shake my head in disbelief at what an extraordinary weekend that was, and how lucky I was to have experienced it.

#napoleon #abel gance #kevin brownlow #MY HERO

[lesbiancolumbo]

Hello! Is there a like… “old movies for dummies” guide you’d recommend? Film history for people who know next to nothing about anything? Extra points for emphasis on how film, American history, feminist history, and/or gay history co-evolved.

i haven’t read these ones so i can’t like technically recommend it, but the story of film by mark cousins seems to be a big one. film history: an introduction is written by david bordwell (RIP) and kristin thompson and their other book film art: an introduction (which i can recommend) is often the first book film students are assigned in class…. the thing about film history is that it’s so long and complex and you’re probably not going to find a catch-all one stop shop. i can say that you should pick up hollywood: the oral history by jeanine basinger and sam wasson, honestly ANY BOOK by jeanine basinger, the parade’s gone by by kevin brownlow, easy riders raging bulls by peter biskind, hollywood black by donald bogle. david thomson has a huge biographical dictionary on film that’s a fun read.

to answer your extra question…. again, i’m not thinking of anything that combines this all into a one stop shop, but you should absolutely read from reverence to rape by molly haskell, pretty much anything by judith mayne, and laura mulvey’s visual pleasure and narrative cinema essay for some feminist history (JSTOR has a great reading list here) and the celluloid closet by vito russo for gay history in film.

#asks #i hope this is helpful! #bordwell + thompson are probably a great place to start tbh #and once you know more about the periods of history that interest you most you can branch out from there

[chaplinfortheages]

Charlie Chaplin, King Vidor, Mavoureen O'Brien and father actor Pat O'Brien.

Elizabeth Hill (King Vidor's wife), Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard and King Vidor (Elizabeth Hill his wife).

At his home in Beverly Hills - Charlie Chaplin (lounge chair), King Vidor, Paulette Goddard and Vidor's wife Elizabeth Hill

King Vidor, wife Elizabeth Hill, Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard, Ensenada Mexico 1937.

Director/Producer King Vidor ("The Big Parade", "Show People", "Stella Dallas", "The Champ") told an amusing story regarding Chaplin and his thing with giving haircuts in the book “The Search for Charlie Chaplin” by Kevin Brownlow (2010)

“He used to cut his own hair. I don't know why, it may go back to his early days when he didn't have enough money. But once he said after tennis – he used to call me Buddy - “Come on up, Buddy and I'll give you a haircut”. So I sat on a high stool and he gave me a haircut. A few weeks I was down in Los Angeles and went in the barber shop and the barber said, “Who cut your hair last time? And quietly I said “Charlie Chaplin ”The barber looked at me and said, “If I ask you a civil question. I expect a civil answer.”

#charlie chaplin #king vidor #amusing haircut story #paulette goddard #elizabeth hill

[davidhudson]

Happy 84th, Kevin Brownlow.

#kevin brownlow #cinema #film #movies #books #book covers