rebello’s internet lair

The Internet Archive was down for about 7 hours yesterday, due to a power outage in San Francisco. Of course, there are conspiracy theories smh. They should invest in some backup servers elsewhere.

sovay recced Gwynne Garfinkle's The Last Word, a poem about the 1935 film Mad Love.

Laridian on Pillowfort posted an assortment of couple photos from the first half of the 20th century (het warning, lol). They make for great pose references.

Ethel Vance's Escape, which I heard is worse then the film. Boy.

Helen McInnes's Above Suspicion, and it appears good ol' Hassie is a movie-only character :(

J. Storer Clouston's The Spy in Black, which does not have the Pressburger touch, but I quite liked the first chapter. Simple, but it paints the picture nicely.

This is the year of The Student of Prague. First, a BluRay release. Now, the Bundesarchiv makes a different restoration available on the Digitaler Lesesaal. A little shorter than the Filmmuseum München one, with different intertitles and it's not tinted. Not sure about other differences.

Also Wilhelm Tell 1923. The best print of it that I've seen.