More @HippFest! dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/03/22/b...

Two Maurices (Elvey and Tourneur), two Alans (director Crosland and character Breck) and three Sherlocks, all in a single day @Hippfest dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/03/20/i...

HippFest day 1! Grim but beautiful up north. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/o...

In my memory (not what it was, admittedly) SPHERE and OUTBREAK are the same film. Am I correct?

Victor Mature hangs up his socks to dry in TIMBUKTU. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/03/15/a...

HOLD THAT BLONDE! seemed like it might be terrible but it was actually heaps o' fun. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/03/14/t...

Guy Ritchie being weird about Hitler. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/r...

Once in a while, a very very very good film... dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/03/10/h...

The true story of the Nazi conquest of Britain. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/03/08/t...

HAHAHA this guy. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/03/06/h...

The saucy joys of Terry and the Pirates. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/03/05/t...

The truly spectacular GEHEIMNISSE DES ORIENTS is hobbled by a single casting blunder, but still... wowsers are in order. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/03/04/a...

Having a hard day? Try watching Tarzan wrestle a stuffed lioness under the surprised gaze of two stock-footage parrots. And wait till you hear his OFF-MODEL YODEL! dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/02/28/o...

GOOD LUCK HAVE FUN DON'T DIE (no commas on the poster or in the film's main title card) is excellent. The kind of fantasy cinema I'd like to be mainstream. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/02/26/v...

The young Richard Barthelmess was quite the dreamboat. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/t...

How bad does an actor's hair have to be in a role before it effectively neutralizes him? dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/02/21/1...

There is, just possibly, a right way to do true crime. DEVIL IN DISGUISE. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/02/20/d...

Sometimes a man hits the ground so hard everything turns upside down. 20,000 YEARS IN SING SING. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/02/19/h...

2/17/49: Max Ophüls' Caught w/Mr. James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Ryan (channeling Howard Hughes) Godard: "Max's best American film" More: @jhoberman.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/m... @dcairns.bsky.social: dcairns.wordpress.com/2017/10/25/c... ASC: theasc.com/articles/cau...

Learned a few fun facts researching CASABLANCA. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/t...

Some happiness for Tuesday morning, here's @dcairns.bsky.social on how Jacques Tati makes the most of what could have been a one-shot gag. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ape...

Wyler's WUTHERING HEIGHTS has some really impressive feats of cinema in it. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/02/12/b...

Robert Weide's Woody Allen documentary is excellent. But its complete silence about the Dylan Farrow allegations now looks... peculiar. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/02/10/t...

Short one. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/f...

Shadowy goings-on and rampant nitrate decomposition in DAS UNHEIMLICHE HAUS (1916). dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/t...

Man continues to laugh at window. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/1...

Man laughs at window. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/m...

Hippodrome Silent Film Festival is back and silenter than ever! dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/02/04/a... #HippFest

So, John Barrymore's son has raised a zombie army to attack Rome? What else have I missed? dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/b...

HELL'S KITCHEN may be the best juvenile detention ice hockey movie I've ever seen. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/01/31/1...

Someone's lost his head on the witness stand... dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/m/

Disappointed to find Rod Serling doing a plagiarism. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/w...

Five desperate men! dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/s...

EA Dupont's KINDER DER FINSTERNIS reaches a dead stop. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/01/27/s...

Kanye West has denied he's a Nazi, even though he said he was a Nazi. "I'm not a Nazi, but I *am* a liar," he's effectively saying. And are you lying now, Herr West?

The auteur theory, revisited. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/k...

You can sing "Jabberwocky" to the tune of "Across the Universe." And as in uffish thought he stood / The Jabberwock with eyes of fire / Came whiffling through the tulgey wood / And burbled as it came. What you do with the "Jai guru deva omm" bit is your own affair.

The abode of Mr. Puffy. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/01/25/t...

Something I haven't heard for forty years but am still annoyed by is Ray Charles' cover of Eleanor Rigby. I like Ray Charles, obviously. But he interpolates things like "He turned to me and he said -" thereby making "All the lonely people" into something *Father McKenzie* is saying. Whereas [cont.]

Hello! dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/01/23/g...

Didn't recognise the leading man of THE ANCIENT LAW. Should've, though... dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/01/22/1...

SAHARA! dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/n...

Try this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEmW...

Do a version of Sympathy for the Devil but with Hugh Herbert doing the "woo woo"s.

HBD Richard Lester! Beatles films & much more [Seek out Petulia, w/Scott, Christie - Our take: midcenturycinema.org/node/151 More: @meheuck.bsky.social: thenewbev.com/blog/2016/07... @dcairns.bsky.social: www.criterion.com/current/post... @petersob13.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/features/kee...

Does Herzog's rejection of ideology just result in him becoming reactionary? I think maybe so. RESCUE DAWN. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/01/17/b...

Impeccable taste in special features, too. Featuring former Lubitsch podcast guests @dcairns.bsky.social and Scott Eyman.