Original Flash Gordon Space-Rocket-Miniature on Ebay
Auf Ebay kann man derzeit die Original-Miniatur von Flash Gordons Raumschiff ersteigern, die damals in den 30er-Serials benutzt wurde. Ich liebe diese ollen Flash Gordon-Serials, die man sich unter anderem komplett auf Archive.org ziehen kann und ich hab’ selber eine Version von diesem Teil, eine Neuauflage von Marx’ Flash Gordon Rocket Fighters inklusive des Vintage Packaging Designs. Eigentlich muss ich das Teil oben unbedingt haben, aber 250.000 Dollar sind mir dann doch ein keines bisschen zuviel. Damn!
This aluminum rocket ship model was first used in the Fox Films feature Just Imagine (1930). Universal Pictures later acquired the life size model, as well as the miniatures, and used them as Zarkov’s rocket ship in the Flash Gordon serials (1936, 1938 and 1940), starring Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers and Priscilla Lawson. This basic shape was used throughout, though slight modifications were made over time.
This original miniature was used by Fox Films and Universal Pictures in the 1930′s. The model was swung through the air and brought to life with sparklers, smoke and added sound effects! It features a heavy, aluminum body and a door that folds down into stairs.
Secret Cinemas Casablanca-Screening
Für ihr jüngstes Screening haben Future Cinema (ein Schwester-Event von Secret Cinema) das Troxy-Theater in London in Ricks Café Américain umgebaut und dort vor nicht weniger als 10000 Leuten, alle aufgebrezelt wie in den 30ern, den Plot nachgespielt und „Casablanca“ gezeigt. Classy.
Rick Blaine’s Café Américain was brought to life at the astonishing Troxy, London, as part of Future Cinema Presents Casablanca.
Over 10,000 migrants from all over occupied Europe made their way through Rick’s doors, enjoying an unforgettable evening of music, dancing, imbibing as well as a splash at the casino, before securing their exit visas for the safety of the New World.
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Asylum-themed Screening of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Secret Cinema in Berlin: Alien
Secret Cinema did The Third Man
A Screening of La Haine in London
Secret Cinemas Prometheus-Screening
Harold Lloyds Safety Last! Restored
Janus Films bringt zum 90. Geburtstag des Films eine restaurierte Fassung von Harold Lloyds ikonischem „Safety Last!“ auf BluRay und in die Kinos. Wann und ob das Teil überhaupt bei uns erscheint, weiß ich leider nicht.
Youtube Direktharold, via First Showing
Janus Films is proud to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Lloyd’s crowning achievement with a new DCP restoration sourced from an original nitrate element as well as freshly-struck 35mm prints, all featuring Carl Davis’s sparkling score.
The DCP of Safety Last! was created from a 2K transfer of an original nitrate print. Over 300 hours of digital work went into cleaning the image. Composer Carl Davis then re-synced his original score to the restored master to create the best possible match for theatrical presentation.
How to make a Blob
Aus einer (leider etwas unspektakulären) Behind-The-Scenes Galerie zum Original-Blob auf Criterion.com. „Keeper of the Blob“ ist wahrscheinlich der tollste Job aller Zeiten! Und falls jemand die Filme nicht kennen sollte: Das Original von 1958er war die erste Hauptrolle von Steve McQueen, ist eigentlich ein von Evangelikalen finanzierter Anti-Kommunismus-Film, ist aber dennoch toll und das Remake von 1988 ist ebenfalls trashtastic. Und das 1972er Sequel „Beware! The Blob“ (hier komplett auf Youtube) muss man ja nicht erwähnen.
Wes Shank is the keeper of the blob, which he stores in its original metal container. Shank grew up near The Blob’s principal locations in Pheonixville, Pennsylvania, and began accumulating items relating to the film in 1960. He is the author of the book From Silicone to the Silver Screen: Memoirs of “The Blob” (1958).
Presidential Monsters
Tolle Toy-Serie von Heroes-In-Action-Toys: Presidential Monsters, Amerikanische Präsidenten als klassische Universal-Monster. Nixon als „Monster from the Watergate Lagoon“ und Reagan als Mumie in „The Ronmy“ würde ich mir direkt so in den Schrank stellen. Die tollen Artworks finde ich leider nirgendwo halbwegs hoch aufgelöst. (via Super Punch)
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- Zombush
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- Wolf Bill
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- Monster from the Watergate Lagoon
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- Baracula
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- Lincolnstein
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- Phantom of the White House
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- The Ronmy
The SciFi-Annuals
Ich weise hier eigentlich nie auf konkrete P2P-Items hin und gehe davon aus, dass hier jeder so seine Quellen hat und zurecht kommt… aber das hier ist pures Gold:
Piratebay-User AmaHist postet grade eine auf Demonoid (vor seiner Schließung) angefangene Serie mit Sammlungen von SciFi-Filmen, von 1900 bis 1973, chronologisch sortiert, ab 1950 für jedes Jahr ein Torrent. Die Sammlung ist nicht komplett (es fehlen beispielsweise die „Invisible Man“-Sequels), aber eben extrem umfangreich und enthält unter anderem Serials wie „Undersea Kingdom“ oder die Buster Crabbe/Flash Gordon-Gesamtausgabe oder sowohl das Serial als auch den Film „The Phantom Creeps“ mit Bela Lugosi. Anders gesagt: Die Sammlung enthält jetzt schon jede Menge alter 50s-SciFikram, den ich nicht gesehen habe… und das will wirklich etwas heissen.
This series is year by year (in the early years, decade by decade) sets of sci-films from 1900 to 1973. The series was originally posted on the late lamented Demonoid. The series creator was still creating and posting the sets when Demonoid shut down. The series is too good to be lost so I’m reposting it.
I don’t know whether these torrents include all sci-fi films released in a particular year; I’m just reposting them. It’s my hope that the original poster will see these torrents being reposted and pick up where she/he left off.
The series is 46 files totaling 418GB. I can only seed a few at a time, so other users will have to continue seeding. I’ll seed each torrent until it’s well established, then post the next.
Doku: Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
Youtube Direkthorror, via Dangerous Minds
Ziemlich tolle Doku über die Entwicklung des europäischen Horrorfilm im 20. Jahrhundert von und mit Mark Gatiss (den man zB aus Dr.Who oder Sherlock kennt), von Nosferatu über Hammer bis italienischen Kannibalenfilmen. Im Frühjahr hatte ich bereits Matiss’ Doku über die frühen Horrorfilme aus Hollywood gebloggt, die Videos sind aber mittlerweile gelöscht, findet man aber sicher noch irgendwo.
Actor and writer Mark Gatiss embarks on a chilling voyage through European horror cinema. From the silent nightmares of German Expressionism in the wake of World War I to lesbian vampires in 1970s Belgium, from the black-gloved killers of Italy’s bloody Giallo thrillers to the ghosts of the Spanish Civil War, Mark reveals how Europe’s turbulent 20th century forged its ground-breaking horror tradition. On a journey that spans the continent from Ostend to Slovakia, Mark explores classic filming locations and talks to the genre’s leading talents, including directors Dario Argento and Guillermo del Toro.
Mark Gatiss said: “What fascinates me about the story of European Horror is its sheer diversity, the sense that there’s a parallel, but entirely separate story to the English language one. “Europe is so much the home of Horror, with its myths of vampires, werewolves, witchcraft and the undead, yet it’s like those myths were exported to Hollywood, leaving Europe the room to develop a new tradition as a way of processing its traumas, particularly the two world wars.
Not suitable for those who are scared of blood, boobies and undead cooties.
Hammer Horror on Youtube: The Quatermass Xperiment
Youtube Direktxperiment, via Badass Digest
Hammer Horror stellen grade ihren Backkatalog in voller Länge auf Youtube. Bislang neben ein paar klassischen Trailer online: Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter von 1974 (muss man nicht kennen, ziemlich obskurer Zigeuner-Vampir-Flick), zwei frühe Krimis, die ich nicht kenne (The Man in Black und Dick Barton Special Agent), sowie den hervorragenden The Quatermass Xperiment (US-Release: The Creeping Unknown), der erste Hammer Horrorfilm überhaupt. Sollte man allein aus filmhistorischen Gründen kennen.
The cult classic that heralded Hammer’s arrival on the world stage has been digitally remastered and fully restored for the first time. Watch it in full 1080p High Definition – only on Hammer’s Youtube channel.
Synopsis:
Britain’s first rocket has been successfully launched and returns to Earth but communication has been severed. Only one of the three spacemen (Wordsworth) remains on board, his physical and mental health severely damaged. He is put under strict observation but his wife smuggles him out of the hospital only to unleash the biggest ever threat to civilisation – for the survivor is being consumed by an alien force, which gains strength from human flesh to multiply and grow, threatening to engulf and kill all living organisms. Professor Quatermass (Donlevy) must find a way to overcome the thing before it’s too late.
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Hammer Horror Movieposters
Hammer-Horror Pinup Girls
The haunted hot Women of Hammer Horror
Metropolis Magazine from 1927
Peter Harringtons Antiquariat hat ein Metropolis-Kinoprogramm aus dem Jahr 1927 online gestellt. Leider nicht wirklich HighRez, aber natürlich trotzdem superinteressant. Die restaurierte Fassung des Films gibt’s übrigens in zwei Teilen auf Youtube.
The world’s most valuable movie poster, for Fritz Lang’s 1927 masterpiece Metropolis, is to be auctioned again after making a record $690,000 in 2005. Ephemera related to the film is notoriously scarce, with only four copies of the poster known to survive. Almost as uncommon is this amazing film programme produced for the London premiere at the Marble Arch Pavilion on March 21, 1927, one of only three copies that we have handled. Not only a list of cast and crew, it includes eleven short pieces on the making of the movie, commentary from the director and cast, and numerous production photographs and film stills, many attractively arranged as modernist collages. One of the most interesting sections shows in parallel columns how a passage of film scenes was adapted from the novel of the same name by Lang’s wife, Thea von Harbou.
Metropolis: A Rare Film Programme for Fritz Lang’s Masterpiece (via Wired)
Creature from the Black Lagoon: Behind the Scenes-Shots
Retronaut hat ein paar schöne Behind the Scenes-Aufnahmen zu „Creature from the Black Lagoon“ gepostet und über den Via-Link landet man im Monsterkidclassichorrorforum bei einer Liste zu drölftausend alter Production-Stills zu allen möglichen Horrorfilm-Klassikern: The Fly, hier noch mehr Shots zu Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Incredible Shrinking Man oder Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein.
Wrestling-themed Performance of Wagners “Der Ring des Nibelungen”
In New York zeigen sie grade Wagners “Der Ring des Nibelungen” mit Wrestlern. Mit Opern und solcherlei Schnickschnack kann man mich normalerweise jagen, aber das hier würde ich mir definitiv ansehen und mich dafür auch garantiert in die passende Abendgarderobe schmeißen, komplett mit Vokuhila und Spandex-Leopardenfellhosen.
The opera’s bellowing gods are now the lords of a different ring — outfitted with ‘80s fright wigs and loud costumes of glittering Spandex — who settle their age-old scores in elaborately choreographed fake fights. Improbable though the shift of setting may seem, writers Jeremy Beck and Dave Dalton (who also directs) remain tirelessly faithful to Wagner’s original, and their obvious reverence for the material, combined with an indefatigable cast, make the unconventional adaptation a chest-thumping success.
The production opens as the commander of the gods, a Hulk Hogan-esque Wotan (Jeff Clarke), avoids paying the tag-teaming giants Fasolt and Fafner (Michael Melkovic and Christopher Hirsh) their due for having built his new abode. Instead of his promised sister-in-law he offers them the all-powerful ring made of gold stolen from the sultry Rhine maidens. Fafner accepts the ring, offing his brother in a brutal deathmatch that demonstrates its dangerous power. Wotan spends the rest of the show trying to recover the ring by prodding successive generations of his illegitimate offspring — another common trait of ancient gods and TV wrestling patriarchs — to battle Fafner.
New Pro Wrestling-Themed Production Puts Wagner’s Epic Cycle in a Different Ring
Secret Cinema did The Third Man
X-Posting von den Filmfreunden: Secret Cinema haben in einem Keller in London Carol Reeds „The Third Man“ gezeigt und dazu das Gebäude und das Gelände in das Wien der 40er Jahre verwandelt. Toll!
Secret Cinema brought to life Carol Reed’s ‘The Third Man’ at the Farmiloe Building in the secret streets and alleyways of Clerkenwell, London, through to the backstreets of Kabul, Afghanistan.
Over 19,000 of you travelled to Vienna becoming part of Harry Lime’s Rogue racket, Major Calloway’s investigation patrols and Crabbin’s British Cultural Office. A photographer from the Vienna Times documented the happenings here and a filmmaker from Future Shorts London Productions made this film.
Happy 100th, Charles Addams!
Charles Addams, Erfinder der Addams Family, wäre heute 100 Jahre alt geworden. Unten die Pilotfolge der Serie und Googles Doodle mit einem schönen, kleinen Text von Kevin Miserocchi, dem Direktor der Tee and Charles Addams Foundation. Charles Addams heiratete seine Tee auf ihrem Tierfriedhof und alle Gäste trugen schwarz. Aaaaaaaw!
I spent the summer of 1979 fundraising with Tee Matthews Miller for the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons. We spent most of our time in the home she shared with her cartoonist paramour—and too many dogs and cats to name—during his weekends away from Manhattan. I’d met her partner several times before I realized that behind all the stacks of paper and collectibles and layers of dust and pet fur in Tee’s office den, the walls were decorated with familiar art. Not just any art—the original artwork from the pages of The New Yorker magazines that my brother and I had cut up or crayoned across when we were boys. Tee’s boyfriend was the Charles Addams—the one with two d’s. I was home, and our friendship was forever cemented.
They were married in Tee’s pet cemetery in Water Mill, NY in 1980—a surprise for the 60 guests coming for cocktails during the Memorial Day weekend. The wedding party all wore black. It was the union of a wonderful woman of gentle spirit and great generosity and a beguiling man with a subtly wicked sense of humor. Bashful and soft-spoken as he was, he had a devil-child glint in his eyes and a Lugosi-like mouth when he laughed, showing none of his teeth.
Von Kevin Miserocchi habe ich übrigens das Buch „The Addams Family: An Evilution“ im Regal stehen, unbedingt empfehlenswert, wenn man auf die Addams steht:
The Addams Family: An Evilution is the first book to trace the Addams Family history, presenting more than 200 cartoons created by Charles Addams (1912-1988) throughout his prolific career; many have never been published before. Text by KEVIN MISEROCCHI, director of the Addams Family Foundation.
Addams first created Morticia, Lurch and the Thing in a cartoon published in an issue of the New Yorker magazine in 1938, though he hadn’t named them yet. His characters inspired an ABC television situation-comedy series in the 1960′s, and two motion pictures in 1991 and 1993. A phenomenon of rare proportion, The Addams Family is the manifestation of one artist’s dark but irresistible wit, expressed with an uncommonly deft hand. 224 pages with more than 200 cartoons (approximately 50 published here for the first time), many in color. Ten chapters explore each Addams Family character as well as the mansion itself.
Happy 100th birthday, Charles Samuel Addams, Amazon-Partnerlink: The Addams Family: An Evilution
