Buster Keaton (04/10/1895-01/02/1966)
(The Cameraman/College/Steamboat Bill, Jr./The Navigator/and promo stills)
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World’s Most Expensive Movie Poster Seized in Bankruptcy Case
A rare and coveted Metropolis movie poster—one of only four known surviving copies from the 1927 silent film classic—has been seized as part of a Chapter 7 liquidation bankruptcy case involving its owner Kenneth Schacter, a well-known collector. The poster will be auctioned off soon.
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In the bankruptcy filing, [Schacter] estimates its value at just $250,000, a number most observers view as comically low. High estimates put the value of the poster at more than $1 million, making it the first poster to cross that barrier in a public sale.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m61lhwpJ7c1qzj6lto1_500.jpg)
World’s Most Expensive Movie Poster Seized in Bankruptcy Case
A rare and coveted Metropolis movie poster—one of only four known surviving copies from the 1927 silent film classic—has been seized as part of a Chapter 7 liquidation bankruptcy case involving its owner Kenneth Schacter, a well-known collector. The poster will be auctioned off soon.
[…]
In the bankruptcy filing, [Schacter] estimates its value at just $250,000, a number most observers view as comically low. High estimates put the value of the poster at more than $1 million, making it the first poster to cross that barrier in a public sale.
M (1931) by director Fritz Lang
(Source: ferembach.com)
While the City Sleeps/Lang/1956
(First of the Lang’s Hollywood films that I’m going to watch in the cinema)
(Source: impawards.com)
Spione/Lang/1928 (Watch it here)
(And this is the last of the 8 silent films of Lang that I’ve watched in cinema)
1-3: Fritz Lang (right) directs Peter Lorre (left) on the set of M (1931), 4: Production sketch by M art director Emil Hasler
(via)
Frau im Mond/Fritz Lang/1929
(Today, I’m gonna watch it in the cinema)
the phenakistoscope, early animation device by joseph plateau #3 (2,1)
the phenakistoscope, early animation device by joseph plateau #2
the phenakistoscope, early animation device by joseph plateau #1
One of the few in-depth yet worthwhile and highly readable academic studies of Kubrick’s work. PDF, 6 MB. Download link below.
One of the reasons why I have found myself posting with surprising regularity about Stan Kubrick is that, although the director is widely considered to be one of the more important filmmaker’s of the 20th century, there is a surprising dearth of quality material on the man and his body of work.
