The Wonderful World of Cinema Posted by Virginie Pronovost on February 14, 2018

We have a smithy at our country house. Yes, yes. We don’t use it anymore as no one alive in my family is a graduated blacksmith (!) but the woman who gave us this house (my grandfather’s cousin) was the daughter of the village’s blacksmith. She was quite a character...   read more

Once Upon a Screen Posted by Aurora on July 27, 2013

Reblogged from Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd film locations (and more): As reported in Variety, and in my prior post, film historian Fernando Pena has topped his discovery of a complete version of the Fritz Lang 1927 epic Metropolis with a 9.5 mm print of Buster Keaton’s 1922 short The Blacksmith that contai   read more

Once Upon a Screen Posted by Aurora on July 20, 2013

Reblogged from Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd film locations (and more): As reported in Variety, lightning struck twice for film historian Fernando Pena.  The same gentleman from Argentina who discovered a complete version of the Fritz Lang 1927 epic Metropolis has now unveiled a 9.5 mm print of Buster Keaton   read more