The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on March 25, 2022

From out of the blue of the western sky comes ... Screen Capture Theatre! Today's entry: the 1952 film ... "Scandal Sheet" takes place in a mythical world where people read newspapers. Rush Limbaugh -- I mean Broderick Crawford -- plays Mark Chapman, hard-driving newspaper editor. Chapman   read more

Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Lea Stans on November 18, 2021

Silents are Golden: A Closer Look at – Greed (1924) With its deeply, grittily realistic story and grand, almost operatic themes, Frank Norris’s 1899 novel McTeague is one of the great American books of the late 19th century. While many critics disliked it at the time for being overly “vulgar,”...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on June 12, 2016

With some cinematic endeavors, there is simply an aura that surrounds them which informs how we look at them. Erich von Stroheim’s ambitious silent film Greed is such a picture. To this day, a full cut of the film has never been found and perhaps never will be, but it...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on June 12, 2016

With some cinematic endeavors there is simply an aura that surrounds them which informs how we look at them. Erich von Stroheim’s ambitious silent film Greed is such a picture. To this day, a full cut of the film has never been found and perhaps never will be, but it...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on June 3, 2016

With some cinematic endeavors there is simply an aura that surrounds them which informs how we look at them. Erich von Stroheim’s ambitious silent film Greed is such a picture. To this day, a full cut of the film has never been found and perhaps never will be, but it...   read more

The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on February 26, 2014

From out of the blue of the western sky comes ... Motion Pictures Told Through Still Pictures with Goofy Captions! Today's entry: the 1952 film ... "Scandal Sheet" takes place in a mythical world where people still read newspapers. Rush Limbaugh plays Mark Chapman, hard-driving newspaper edi   read more

The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on February 26, 2014

From out of the blue of the western sky comes ... Motion Pictures Told Through Still Pictures with Goofy Captions! Today's entry: the 1952 film ... "Scandal Sheet" takes place in a mythical world where people still read newspapers. Rush Limbaugh plays Mark Chapman, hard-driving newspaper edi   read more

The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on July 15, 2012

There isn’t too much I can personally say about The Complete Greed that hasn’t already been said by those cited on the back cover of the book, namely: The New Yorker, Fritz Lang, Take One, Sight & Sound, Maurice Bessy (at the time director of The Cannes Film Festival), Henri...   read more

Curtains Posted by Janelle Vreeland on September 28, 2011

Greed (1924) The Holy Grail of lost film, the original cut of Erich von Stroheim’s “Greed” -- a film adaptation of the Frank Norris novel “McTeague” -- clocked in at 9.5 hours. Until recently, the only version that survived was the two-hour version which hardly did   read more