scene from Arrabal's Guernica Tree

Chris Marker and Walerian Borowczyk

Les Astronautes
1959 - 12 minutes

I keep going back to this wonderful short film by Walerian Browczyk co-directed with Chris Marker.

http://www.ubu.com/film/borowczyk_astro.html

ubu.com is one of the more important resources online, if you ask me. Like this short film, I can't help but keep going back to the site.

Akim, Sturges and McGinty

The Great McGinty (1940)

Written and Directed by Preston Sturges. An amazing satire on political power. Starring Akim Tamiroff and Brian Donlevy.
It was Sturges' directorial debut. This film stands the test of time... maybe because the idea of corrupt politicians still exists. Tamiroff as The Boss, is played to perfection.



Written and Directed by Preston Sturges
Cast: Akim Tamiroff, Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, William Demarest, Allyn Joslyn, Libby Taylor, Harry Rosenthal
Paramount Pictures

Both Tamiroff and Donlevy reprised their roles in Sturges' 1944 comedy The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Production on the film was delayed to allow Akim Tamiroff to do The Way of All Flesh, but it began on December 15 1939.

Honeymoon In Bali (1939)

As a reviewer pointed out... "Akim Tamiroff is underplayed as the window washer"
I take that to mean that Akim was the best thing about this film, as always.



It's great films like this are in the public domain. I found it here: http://www.archive.org/details/my_love_for_yours_ipod
Somebody wrote this somewhere else about the movie:
"MY LOVE FOR YOURS is a public domainer that was theatrically titled, "Honeymoon in Bali." The picture's original "Are Husbands Necessary?" name was jettisoned when leading lady Madeleine Carroll landed in divorce court.

"Bali" is the sort of escapist light comedy that was most common during the Great Depression's earlier years. (F. Scott Fitzgerald is rumored to have contributed to the script.) It's the story of Gail Allen, an upscale career gal whose vow to never marry is sorely tried when Bill Burnett (MacMurray), a visitor to Manhattan from Bali, meets and falls in love with her."

The Laugh Maker 1953

Jackie Gleason and Art Carney star in this amazing character study of a comic. Carney is a journalist who doesn't like 'stars' too much, he's assigned to write a story about the bigger than life comedian Jerry Giles. Should note this is a live recording and one of the earliest attempts at live-television-drama. These two giants mainly remembered for the comedy especially the long running show they did together "The Honeymooners", here perform in this drama with nothing but pure force.

The Laugh Maker (1953)