I love old movies. Even old movies that don’t fully exist anymore are still better than most movies made today.
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I love old movies. Even old movies that don’t fully exist anymore are still better than most movies made today.
What’s been on your mind? Got something you’d like to share? A topic to discuss? It’s Sunday Night Open Thread.
Who wants to start?
The Frozen North
“This was a travesty on the enormously popular William S. Hart Westerns. Bill Hart did not speak to me for two years after he saw it.
“Henry Ford did not speak to me for ten years after he saw what I did on the screen to this Model-T job of his [in The Three Ages]. As he had never spoken to me before that anyway — I didn’t care.”
— Buster Keaton, My Wonderful World of Slapstick
It’s startling that the menacing Prussian uniform he dons in this movie — in 1922 — looks so much like the white uniforms Hilter and Goering would later wear, and the SS uniforms — complete with Sam Brown belt and dark-colored band around one sleeve, which was only missing a swastika.
Oliver Sacks, who wrote about a dozen quite instructive and entertaining books about neurology and other things scientific (he was, himself, a neurologist), was born July 9, 1933, in London.