Reading

Current Mood: mellow

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The Yahoo Groups Rescue Project needs more taggers.

Paul Leni's The Last Warning (bilibili link). The copy on the Internet Archive is quite battered, this one is nicer. The website is weird for online viewing, so thank heavens for third-party tools (hehe). Leni's stuff is always nice, and I'm very curious about the sets (they were reused for The Last Performance apparently).

EDIT: Another upload. 360p. Hey, it's public domain.

Blog post about J. Storer Clouston. Featuring an omnibus edition of The Spy in Black, The Lunatic at Large, Simon and The Man From the Clouds. Conrad Veidt on the cover, never seen that specific publicity portrait. There's a message printed on this edition that he wrote (of course, someone told him to write that). Maintains "Germanisms", I hate he doesn't put the little strike on his t's.

Current Mood: Romantic apparently

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We are halfway through the year, and I've watched Lon Chaney's Phantom twice.

Georges Méliès's Rip van Winkle synced to the operetta (YouTube link). Makes it all the more enjoyable *has never heard of Rip van Winkle in his life*

(via hanswalterconradveidt on Tumblr)

Can't get over him drinking Coca Cola. With a straw!

I dunno man. Staged photo, yeah, they all are, but it's still a good reminder that he was a human being.

No idea what Norma Shearer is doing.

Buffo <3

Am I doing this right? Am I cool with the kids?

Forever grateful to have all of you in my life. Even if we don't talk much. Also grateful for one person who isn't on here, but someplace else on-the-line. And a few people IRL as well.

Hope the positive feelings are mutual. It can be hard to tell. Learnt that the hard way.

(No reason for writing this last bit. Just wanted to let you all know <3 )

Current Mood: crushed

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film: nazi agent

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Put on Nazi Agent as background noise while doing some research (even if it breaks me every time), and wondered:

Do we even know how Otto got that scar? Hmmm... plot bunnies...

That ending speech... Oh, that American hypocrisy, right?

Speaking of the ending, I keep thinking about how Otto will be sent to a concentration camp, and probably executed. Which is why it breaks my heart so much. Once again, Connie plays a character who sacrifices everything for what he thinks is right.

filmforfancy

*sob*

Current Mood: enraged

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Random

Phone updated. Thought it was a security and performance patch, not a whole visual overhaul of the operating system. It makes it look like an iPhone now. Not my jam. The icons are so busy with so many colours.

And AI. They put an AI on my phone. Disabled it, have no need for it.

Had some dark chocolate with chilli flakes. It's good!

Current Mood: hyper

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Links

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.

Current Mood: frustrated

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stats

Stats: May 2025 Edition

Films Watched

Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Emma. (2020)

Hamlet (1921)

Within Our Gates (1920)

Books (being read for leisure)

Gay Berlin by Robert Beachy (as always smh)

Arts

1 unfinished full piece (Above Suspicion)

1 scrapped drawing

Lots of dumb doodles

Words Written

That One Oberaertz Thing: 501 words (total 4803 words)

Barbara's Great Wine Search: 0 words, ugh

Miscellaneous short fics: two fics (total 778 words)

Total: 1279 words