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This evening's viewing: 1945 British flick Dead of Night, largely held to be the grandaddy of the "portmanteau" style of anthology #horror that Hammer and Amicus would use often in the 60s and 70s (also boasts an early "is the ventriloquist mad or the dummy alive?" story)

Unusual for the time, also unusual in being an Ealing production, better known for their comedies.

#film #films #1940sFilm #Horror #Portmanteau #AnthologyFilm #HorrorAnthology #HorrorFilm #DeadOfNight.

still from Dead of Night, a 1945 film, showing a male ventriloquist and his dummy in evening dress, performing in a club

"A superb piece": the BFI (British Film Institute) has a restored 4k version of 1949's Stray Dog by the iconic Akira Kurosawa, and starring the legendary Toshiro Mifune, coming out on January 27th. My review is up now on @PhilEdwards 's Live For Films now - https://www.liveforfilm.com/2025/01/22/blu-ray-review-akira-kurosawas-stray-dog-a-superb-piece-by-a-cast-and-crew-at-the-top-of-their-game/

#film #films #ClassicFilm #JapaneseFilm #AkiraKurosawa #ToshiroMifune #StrayDog #Noir #NoirFilm #BFI #BritishFilmInstitute #BluRay #review #1940sFilm

Takashi Shimura and Toshiro Mifune in a scene from 1949 Japanese detective Noir, Stray Dog, carrying their guns past a wall lined with shadows

This evening's viewing distraction: new 4k restored version of 1949's Stray Dog by the masterful Akira Kurosawa, which will be getting the Blu-Ray 4k release from the BFI at the end of January https://shop.bfi.org.uk/stray-dog-blu-ray.html?srsltid=AfmBOoqdYc1IK3H7qU94DGeUT_IchsMvVpc1aOvrb_FPxBn4Y8_L1tFd

As ever my review will follow later on @PhilEdwards 's Live For Films

#film #films #JapaneseFilm #ClassicFilm #AkiraKurosawa #StrayDog #1940sFilm #BFI #BluRay

Cover for the BFI 4k restoration Blu-Ray of Stray Dog by Akira Kurosawa, showing a Japanese Man in a smart, white suit and cap, holing a pistol

The scene where the singing of the Marseillaise drowns out the bellowing Nazis gets me every time I watch this film. Must have been very emotional for the original audience, in the middle of WWII, with no idea how it would end.

These days it reminds me we've faced seemingly overwhelming fascism before, and good people stood up to it, and crushed it. I need to remember that a lot these days...

#film #Casablanca #films #ClassicFilms #1940sFilm #fascism #hope

Double Bogie on Boxing Day, The Big Sleep, then Casablanca on BBC2, watching with dad.

Bogie, Bacall and Bergman; absolute classic Hollywood gold...

#film #films #movie #1940sFilm #LaurenBacall #HumphreyBogart #TheBigSleep #Casablanca

That final reel in the Fun House and the Hall of Mirrors, just brilliant cinema

"Give my regards to the sunrise..."

#film #FilmNoir #RitaHayworth #OrsonWelles #TheLadyFromShanghai #HallOfMirrors #movie #ClassicFilm #1940sFilm

an iconic scene from the final reel of Lady From Shanghai, as Orson Welles holds Rita Hayworth in the Hall of Mirrors in a Fun House, their multiple reflections surrounding them.

This evening's viewing distraction: some classic 1940s Noir with The Lady From Shanghai. Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth (then married to Welles), and that hall of mirrors scene.

#film #ClassicFilm #1940sFilm #FilmNoir #films #OrsonWelles #RitaHayworth #movie #TheLadyFromShanghai

It's #InternationalAnimationDay , so in tribute, here is The Count himself, Bela Lugosi, modelling reference poses for Disney animators for Chernabog in 1940's Fantasia.

#animation #film #films #movie #cinema #Disney #Fantasia #demon #Chernobog #BelaLugosi #1940sFilm

the demonic looking Chernabog, from the 1940 animated Disney classic, Fantasia

The famous actor Bela Lugosi, modelling topless in 1939 for Disney animators, as a reference for poses for the demonic looking Chernabog in Fantasia

Classic flick The Lady From Shanghai is on the Talking Pictures channel (sorry, UK only) tonight at 9. Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, and that amazing hall of mirrors scene...

#film #FilmNoir #RitaHayworth #OrsonWelles #ClassicFilm #1940sFilm #movie