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]]> Comment on SFSFF 2010: The Iron Horse by Top Horse Sites: Iron Horse Azure http://www.seanax.com/2010/07/17/sfsff-2010-the-iron-horse/comment-page-1/#comment-29746 Top Horse Sites: Iron Horse Azure Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:16:02 +0000 http://www.seanax.com/?p=5397#comment-29746 [...] seanax.com » SFSFF 2010: The Iron Horse [...] [...] seanax.com » SFSFF 2010: The Iron Horse [...]

]]> Comment on SLIFR 2013: Miss Jean Brodie Regrets by Dennis Cozzalio http://www.seanax.com/2013/03/14/slifr-2013-miss-jean-brodie-regrets/comment-page-1/#comment-27133 Dennis Cozzalio Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:57:51 +0000 http://www.seanax.com/?p=8808#comment-27133 I do have Amazon streaming, but I've never used it. This sounds like a good way to get my feet wet. Thanks again, Sean! I do have Amazon streaming, but I’ve never used it. This sounds like a good way to get my feet wet. Thanks again, Sean!

]]> Comment on SLIFR 2013: Miss Jean Brodie Regrets by admin http://www.seanax.com/2013/03/14/slifr-2013-miss-jean-brodie-regrets/comment-page-1/#comment-27131 admin Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:05:48 +0000 http://www.seanax.com/?p=8808#comment-27131 Dennis, your quizzes are maddening because I can't NOT engage with them, and I can't just toss off the answers. Not all of them, anyway. <I>Punch</I> is a tough one to find, but it's rewarding. And it's apparently available on Amazon streaming, if you do that sort of thing. Congratulations on another superb quiz. Dennis, your quizzes are maddening because I can’t NOT engage with them, and I can’t just toss off the answers. Not all of them, anyway. Punch is a tough one to find, but it’s rewarding. And it’s apparently available on Amazon streaming, if you do that sort of thing.

Congratulations on another superb quiz.

]]> Comment on SLIFR 2013: Miss Jean Brodie Regrets by Dennis Cozzalio http://www.seanax.com/2013/03/14/slifr-2013-miss-jean-brodie-regrets/comment-page-1/#comment-27130 Dennis Cozzalio Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:52:12 +0000 http://www.seanax.com/?p=8808#comment-27130 Thanks again for checking in on this, Sean. As I commented underneath the post at my site, you've really piqued my interest about Guy Bennett's <i>Punch</i>. An aspiring filmmaker friend of mine attempted something similar years ago, although I'm sure on a less ambitious scale (his movie was only about five minutes long), but it's a subject that is really intriguing and, I think, full of potential for empathy and emotional exploration. I'm glad you mentioned that, at one time at least, it was available on DVD, which means that hopefully there's a cop floating around out there somewhere. I also love your answers for #16 25 & 29. What more needs be said?! Thanks again for checking in on this, Sean. As I commented underneath the post at my site, you’ve really piqued my interest about Guy Bennett’s Punch. An aspiring filmmaker friend of mine attempted something similar years ago, although I’m sure on a less ambitious scale (his movie was only about five minutes long), but it’s a subject that is really intriguing and, I think, full of potential for empathy and emotional exploration. I’m glad you mentioned that, at one time at least, it was available on DVD, which means that hopefully there’s a cop floating around out there somewhere. I also love your answers for #16 25 & 29. What more needs be said?!

]]> Comment on TV on DVD: Chris Haddock’s Intelligence by Miriam http://www.seanax.com/2009/04/15/tv-on-dvd-chris-haddocks-intelligence/comment-page-1/#comment-27024 Miriam Sun, 03 Mar 2013 19:25:09 +0000 http://www.seanax.com/?p=2415#comment-27024 I'm so disappointed to learn that Intelligence was canceled after just two seasons. I enjoyed it tremendously, and as an American was tickled that a crime series could be totally riveting without constant shoot-outs, endless cursing, and beat downs. Just great writing and plotting. I’m so disappointed to learn that Intelligence was canceled after just two seasons. I enjoyed it tremendously, and as an American was tickled that a crime series could be totally riveting without constant shoot-outs, endless cursing, and beat downs. Just great writing and plotting.

]]> Comment on Silent Movie Mondays – The House That James Built Silences Dennis James by Dennis James http://www.seanax.com/2009/06/29/silent-movie-mondays-the-house-that-james-built-silences-dennis-james/comment-page-1/#comment-27009 Dennis James Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:07:46 +0000 http://www.seanax.com/?p=2776#comment-27009 Dennis James, final Paramount Theatre House Organist (1998-2008) and creator of the Silent Movie Mondays series, announces his 2012-2013 professional touring performances: September 17, Cologne Philharmonie, Cologne, GERMANY Debut silent film performance-:Filmharmonia Duo accompany Fritz Lang's DIE FRAU IM MONDE a new historically-based commissioned organ and electronics score September 21, Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto, California Friday Night Silents autumn series: Laura LaPlante in CAT & THE CANARY September 30, Black-Eyed Susan Cafe, Angelica, New York Musica Curiosa Salon with Dennis James featuring the Theremin plus solo piano October 4, Winspear Center, Edmonton, CANADA Dennis James, organ soloist, with Edmonton Symphony Orchestra presentation: Lon Chaney in PHANTOM OF THE OPERA featuring Dennis James' arrangement for organ and orchestra of the 1925 G. Hinrichs and M. Winkler orchestral score October 5&6, Historic Coleman Theatre, Miami, Oklahoma Silent film program: Douglas Fairbanks in THE MARK OF ZORRO with historical-recreation compilation score by Dennis James October 12, Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto, California Friday Night Silents autumn series: Erich von Stroheim's FOOLISH WIVES with historical recreation styled improvised solo organ score by Dennis James October 19, Scottish Rite Cathedral, New Castle, Pennsylvania 2nd Annual Halloween silent film performance: F. W. Murnau's NOSFERATU, A SYMPHONY OF TERROR with new solo organ compilation score by Dennis James incorporating surviving fragments of the Hans Erdmann original orchestra score October 20, Embassy Theatre, Fort Wayne, Indiana Annual Halloween silent film: Robert Weine's THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI with compilation score by Dennis James October 24, Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, University of Chicago, Illinois F. W. Murnau's FAUST accompanied by the Filmharmonia Duo October 26, I. U. Auditorium, Bloomington, Indiana Annual Halloween silent film event: F. W. Murnau's FAUST accompanied by the Filmharmonia Duo October 28, Proctors Theatre, Schenectady, New York Halloween silent film event: F. W. Murnau's FAUST accompanied by the Filmharmonia Duo October 29, Missouri Theatre, Columbia, Missouri Halloween silent film event: Lon Chaney in PHANTOM OF THE OPERA October 31, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Annual Halloween program: F. W. Murnau's FAUST accompanied by the Filmharmonia Duo November 2, Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto, California Friday Night Silents autumn series: Lon Chaney in PHANTOM OF THE OPERA November 24,25, C&C Hall, Austintown, Ohio Saturday evening- private glass music and theremin Musica Curiosa plus organ and film program / Sunday afternoon: Annual holiday open house- Wurlitzer organ performances with glass music and theremin Musica Curiosa elements December 31, Venango Museum, Oil City, Pennsylvania Annual First Night festival - Musica Curiosa program featuring theatre pipe organ plus piano, glass armonica and theremin and silent film comedy 2013 January 20, Arlington Theatre, Santa Barbara, California SBTOS silent film matinee (2pm) program: Buster Keaton in COPS plus Marion Davies in SHOW PEOPLE January 30, USC, Columbia, South Carolina International Wagner conference: Fritz Lang's SIEGFRIED with performance of original orchestral score by Otto Huppertz, transcribed for organ solo score by Dennis James February 1, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. "Music from Monticello" touring instrumental program featuring Dennis James performing Mozart with a concert replica of Benjamin Franklin's armonica February 7, Washington Center, Olympia, Washington 7th annual Silent Film Concerts series: Louise Brooks in PANDORA'S BOX February 9, Overture Center, Madison, Wisconsin Annual 'Duck Soup Cinema' variety show appearances: Willis H. O'Brien's THE LOST WORLD February 10, Al Ringling Theatre, Baraboo, Wisconsin Theatre organ with silent film: Buster Keaton in THE CAMERAMAN February 23, Trinity Hall, Spring Valley, California Annual San Diego Theatre Organ Society silent film program: Ramon Novarro in A STUDENT PRINCE IN OLD HEIDELBERG March 2&3, Historic Coleman Theatre, Miami, Oklahoma Annual silent film series presentations: Harold Lloyd in SPEEDY March 7, Washington Center, Olympia, Washington 7th annual Silent Film Concerts series: Douglas Fairbanks in THE MYSTERY OF THE LEAPING FISH plus the feature film WHEN THE CLOUDS ROLL BY March 8. California Theatre, San Jose, California Annual Cinequest film festival silent film screening: Buster Keaton in COPS and Harold Lloyd in SAFETY LAST March 10, Segerstrom Concert Hall, Costa Mesa, California Pacific Symphony presents organ solo accompanied silent film event: Lon Chaney in PHANTOM OF THE OPERA March 16, Overture Center, Madison, Wisconsin Silent Film Concerts screening: F. W. Murnau's FAUST with scoring by the Filmharmonia Duo April 5&6, Kenyon Hall, West Seattle, Washington Variety programs with silent films and vocalist Connie Corrick April 7, City Museum, Wenatchee, Washington Variety program with silent films and vocalist Connie Corrick April 11, Washington Center, Olympia, Washington 7th annual Silent Film Concerts series: Cecil B. DeMille's THE GODLESS GIRL April 16, Grosser Saal, Mozarteum, Salzburg, AUSTRIA Third annual Silent Film Concert series: Karl Valentin in DER SONDERLING May 18&19, Historic Coleman Theatre, Miami, Oklahoma 3rd annual Musica Curiosa program featuring the WurliTzer theatre pipe organ plus unusual musical instruments, exotic repertoire, a guest performer plus silent film *June tba, Liberty Theatre, Sedalia, Missouri Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival Silent Film Concerts debut: Buster Keaton in THE GENERAL with piano plus sound effects scoring June 9, Missouri Theater, Columbia, Missouri Blind Boone Festival Silent Film Concerts debut: title tba June 12, Konzerthaus, Vienna, AUSTRIA Debut performance and recording with Donald Sosin of a newly commissioned score for Piano and Concert Organ to the Austrian national archive restoration of Conrad Veidt's THE HANDS OF ORLAC July 7, Nunda Historical Society, Nunda, NY Glass music instruments: "Glass-ical Musick" illustrated informance featuring the Seraphim, Benjamin Franklin's armonica and the Beyer Glass-cord August 5 to 13, Tanglewood Music Center, Boston, Massachusetts Performing the glass armoniuca part in the US premiere of George Benjamin's new opera, WRITTEN ON SKIN presented as part of the Tanglewood Music Center's 2013 Festival of Contemporary Music August 19, Balboa Park, San Diego, California 25th annual outdoor silent film program at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion: Rudolph Valentino in THE EAGLE August 23, Lily Dale Assembly, Lily Dale, New York Glass music instruments: "Glass-ical Musick" illustrated informance featuring the Seraphim, Benjamin Franklin's armonica and the Beyer Glass-cord September 12, Lyceum Lecture Series at Kendal, Ithaca, New York Glass music instruments: "Glass-ical Musick" illustrated informance featuring the Seraphim, Benjamin Franklin's armonica and the Beyer Glass-cord BOOKING CONTACT: DENNIS JAMES | DIRECTOR SILENT FILM CONCERTS LECTURER, MASON GROSS SCHOOL OF ARTS, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY Dennis James, final Paramount Theatre House Organist (1998-2008) and creator of the Silent Movie Mondays series, announces his 2012-2013 professional touring performances:

September 17, Cologne Philharmonie, Cologne, GERMANY
Debut silent film performance-:Filmharmonia Duo accompany Fritz Lang’s DIE FRAU IM MONDE a new historically-based commissioned organ and electronics score

September 21, Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto, California
Friday Night Silents autumn series: Laura LaPlante in CAT & THE CANARY

September 30, Black-Eyed Susan Cafe, Angelica, New York
Musica Curiosa Salon with Dennis James featuring the Theremin plus solo piano

October 4, Winspear Center, Edmonton, CANADA
Dennis James, organ soloist, with Edmonton Symphony Orchestra presentation: Lon Chaney in PHANTOM OF THE OPERA featuring Dennis James’ arrangement for organ and orchestra of the 1925 G. Hinrichs and M. Winkler orchestral score

October 5&6, Historic Coleman Theatre, Miami, Oklahoma
Silent film program: Douglas Fairbanks in THE MARK OF ZORRO with historical-recreation compilation score by Dennis James

October 12, Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto, California
Friday Night Silents autumn series: Erich von Stroheim’s FOOLISH
WIVES with historical recreation styled improvised solo organ score by Dennis James

October 19, Scottish Rite Cathedral, New Castle, Pennsylvania
2nd Annual Halloween silent film performance: F. W. Murnau’s NOSFERATU, A SYMPHONY OF TERROR with new solo organ compilation score by Dennis James incorporating surviving fragments of the Hans Erdmann original orchestra score

October 20, Embassy Theatre, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Annual Halloween silent film: Robert Weine’s THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI with compilation score by Dennis James

October 24, Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, University of Chicago, Illinois
F. W. Murnau’s FAUST accompanied by the Filmharmonia Duo

October 26, I. U. Auditorium, Bloomington, Indiana
Annual Halloween silent film event: F. W. Murnau’s FAUST accompanied by the Filmharmonia Duo

October 28, Proctors Theatre, Schenectady, New York
Halloween silent film event: F. W. Murnau’s FAUST accompanied by the Filmharmonia Duo

October 29, Missouri Theatre, Columbia, Missouri
Halloween silent film event: Lon Chaney in PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

October 31, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Annual Halloween program: F. W. Murnau’s FAUST accompanied by the Filmharmonia Duo

November 2, Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto, California
Friday Night Silents autumn series: Lon Chaney in PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

November 24,25, C&C Hall, Austintown, Ohio
Saturday evening- private glass music and theremin Musica Curiosa plus organ and film program / Sunday afternoon: Annual holiday open house- Wurlitzer organ performances with glass music and theremin Musica Curiosa elements

December 31, Venango Museum, Oil City, Pennsylvania
Annual First Night festival – Musica Curiosa program featuring theatre pipe organ plus piano, glass armonica and theremin and silent film comedy

2013

January 20, Arlington Theatre, Santa Barbara, California
SBTOS silent film matinee (2pm) program: Buster Keaton in COPS plus Marion Davies in SHOW PEOPLE

January 30, USC, Columbia, South Carolina
International Wagner conference: Fritz Lang’s SIEGFRIED with performance of original orchestral score by Otto Huppertz, transcribed for organ solo score by Dennis James

February 1, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.
“Music from Monticello” touring instrumental program featuring Dennis James performing Mozart with a concert replica of Benjamin Franklin’s armonica

February 7, Washington Center, Olympia, Washington
7th annual Silent Film Concerts series: Louise Brooks in PANDORA’S BOX

February 9, Overture Center, Madison, Wisconsin
Annual ‘Duck Soup Cinema’ variety show appearances: Willis H. O’Brien’s THE LOST WORLD

February 10, Al Ringling Theatre, Baraboo, Wisconsin
Theatre organ with silent film: Buster Keaton in THE CAMERAMAN

February 23, Trinity Hall, Spring Valley, California
Annual San Diego Theatre Organ Society silent film program: Ramon Novarro in A STUDENT PRINCE IN OLD HEIDELBERG

March 2&3, Historic Coleman Theatre, Miami, Oklahoma
Annual silent film series presentations: Harold Lloyd in SPEEDY

March 7, Washington Center, Olympia, Washington
7th annual Silent Film Concerts series: Douglas Fairbanks in THE MYSTERY OF THE LEAPING FISH plus the feature film WHEN THE CLOUDS ROLL BY

March 8. California Theatre, San Jose, California
Annual Cinequest film festival silent film screening: Buster Keaton in COPS and Harold Lloyd in SAFETY LAST

March 10, Segerstrom Concert Hall, Costa Mesa, California
Pacific Symphony presents organ solo accompanied silent film event: Lon Chaney in PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

March 16, Overture Center, Madison, Wisconsin
Silent Film Concerts screening: F. W. Murnau’s FAUST with scoring by the Filmharmonia Duo

April 5&6, Kenyon Hall, West Seattle, Washington
Variety programs with silent films and vocalist Connie Corrick

April 7, City Museum, Wenatchee, Washington
Variety program with silent films and vocalist Connie Corrick

April 11, Washington Center, Olympia, Washington
7th annual Silent Film Concerts series: Cecil B. DeMille’s THE GODLESS GIRL

April 16, Grosser Saal, Mozarteum, Salzburg, AUSTRIA
Third annual Silent Film Concert series: Karl Valentin in DER SONDERLING

May 18&19, Historic Coleman Theatre, Miami, Oklahoma
3rd annual Musica Curiosa program featuring the WurliTzer theatre pipe organ plus unusual musical instruments, exotic repertoire, a guest performer plus silent film

*June tba, Liberty Theatre, Sedalia, Missouri
Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival Silent Film Concerts debut: Buster Keaton in THE GENERAL with piano plus sound effects scoring

June 9, Missouri Theater, Columbia, Missouri
Blind Boone Festival Silent Film Concerts debut: title tba

June 12, Konzerthaus, Vienna, AUSTRIA
Debut performance and recording with Donald Sosin of a newly commissioned score for Piano and Concert Organ to the Austrian national archive restoration of Conrad Veidt’s THE HANDS OF ORLAC

July 7, Nunda Historical Society, Nunda, NY
Glass music instruments: “Glass-ical Musick” illustrated informance featuring the Seraphim, Benjamin Franklin’s armonica and the Beyer Glass-cord

August 5 to 13, Tanglewood Music Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Performing the glass armoniuca part in the US premiere of George Benjamin’s new opera, WRITTEN ON SKIN presented as part of the Tanglewood Music Center’s 2013 Festival of Contemporary Music

August 19, Balboa Park, San Diego, California
25th annual outdoor silent film program at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion: Rudolph Valentino in THE EAGLE

August 23, Lily Dale Assembly, Lily Dale, New York
Glass music instruments: “Glass-ical Musick” illustrated informance featuring the Seraphim, Benjamin Franklin’s armonica and the Beyer Glass-cord

September 12, Lyceum Lecture Series at Kendal, Ithaca, New York
Glass music instruments: “Glass-ical Musick” illustrated informance featuring the Seraphim, Benjamin Franklin’s armonica and the Beyer Glass-cord

BOOKING CONTACT:
DENNIS JAMES | DIRECTOR
SILENT FILM CONCERTS
LECTURER, MASON GROSS SCHOOL OF ARTS, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY

]]> Comment on DVDs for 10-13-09 – Macaroni Combat, Rollercoaster Horror and Ozsploitation by The Esther Williams Collection, Volume 2 http://www.seanax.com/2009/10/13/dvds-for-10-13-09-macaroni-combat-rollercoast-horror-and-ozsploitation/comment-page-1/#comment-26972 The Esther Williams Collection, Volume 2 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 01:11:29 +0000 http://www.seanax.com/?p=3341#comment-26972 [...] DVDs for 10-13-09 – Macaroni Combat, Rollercoast Horror and … [...] [...] DVDs for 10-13-09 – Macaroni Combat, Rollercoast Horror and … [...]

]]> Comment on TV on DVD 10/20/09 – It’s Garry Shandling’s DVD Set, plus Basil Fawlty, Gene Roddenberry and Dan Tanna by garth,formerly of Izar http://www.seanax.com/2009/10/19/tv-on-dvd-102009-its-garry-shandlings-dvd-set-plus-basil-fawlty-gene-roddenberry-and-dan-tanna/comment-page-1/#comment-26971 garth,formerly of Izar Tue, 19 Feb 2013 23:21:15 +0000 http://www.seanax.com/?p=3364#comment-26971 John L. Moxey had no involvement in Star Trek. John L. Moxey had no involvement in Star Trek.

]]> Comment on TV on Disc: HBO’s ‘Cinema Verite’ by Jamin Swinney http://www.seanax.com/2012/04/24/tv-on-disc-hbos-cinema-verite/comment-page-1/#comment-26717 Jamin Swinney Wed, 09 Jan 2013 23:00:36 +0000 http://www.seanax.com/?p=8077#comment-26717 After watching the actual documentary and closely analyzing it, I can't help but feel the movie, that takes too many liberties, HAD to spice up what in 1973 was groundbreaking, in 2012 would almost be considered boring compared to today's scripted "reality" television. What kept people glued to their television sets in 1973 would be dull today. Cinema Varite' is an actual form of filming. Basically, you film anything that moves, boring or not. The documentary was filmed using cinema varite' and very often had hours of unspoken pauses of "nothingness" that wound up on the cutting room floor. I, personally enjoy being taken back to 1971 (when the actual filming took place) just for the experience of life in 1971. I found Diane Lane to be much less reserved than the actual Patricia Loud, and Tim Robbins much more gruff and fake than the actual William, or Bill Loud. I suppose the movie had to be much more exciting than the actual documentary, but being an expert on the documentary, I found myself picking out what the actors were doing and comparing them to the actual Loud family too distracting to enjoy the movie. To me, the actual documentary is much more interesting, but I'm an "odd duck" when it comes down to reality verses entertainment. After watching the actual documentary and closely analyzing it, I can’t help but feel the movie, that takes too many liberties, HAD to spice up what in 1973 was groundbreaking, in 2012 would almost be considered boring compared to today’s scripted “reality” television. What kept people glued to their television sets in 1973 would be dull today. Cinema Varite’ is an actual form of filming. Basically, you film anything that moves, boring or not. The documentary was filmed using cinema varite’ and very often had hours of unspoken pauses of “nothingness” that wound up on the cutting room floor. I, personally enjoy being taken back to 1971 (when the actual filming took place) just for the experience of life in 1971. I found Diane Lane to be much less reserved than the actual Patricia Loud, and Tim Robbins much more gruff and fake than the actual William, or Bill Loud. I suppose the movie had to be much more exciting than the actual documentary, but being an expert on the documentary, I found myself picking out what the actors were doing and comparing them to the actual Loud family too distracting to enjoy the movie. To me, the actual documentary is much more interesting, but I’m an “odd duck” when it comes down to reality verses entertainment.

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