Slog - Comments on When the Clouds Roll By... http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/when_the_clouds_roll_by So the first movie in the Douglas Fairbanks series at Silent Movie Mondays was pretty great—late 'teens bohemian fashion and a spacious Greenwich Village "studio" festooned with Vassar flags, a nightmare sequence in which the dreamer hops about on the ceiling while menacing foodstuffs (spring onions, mincemeat pie) cavort below, a gigantic flood in which a miniature church detaches from its moorings and floats away... Dennis James, accompanying on the Paramount's organ, was excellent, as usual, though his playful "sound effects" were tempered in favor of a tribute score by a midcentury silent film pianist and composer. Not so great,... Copyright 2008 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:48:03 -0800 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:30:59 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Dave I can confirm that Michelle Liu is, in fact, awesome.

]]> Dave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/when_the_clouds_roll_by#c1039071 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/when_the_clouds_roll_by#c1039071 Film Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:25:04 -0800 Comment by Greg I've had this problem at other Silent Movie Mondays...it's not just this lecturer. Anyone catch any of the Buster Keaton ones awhile back? Long, ponderous, humorless introductions, hyper-PC explanations of supposedly racist moments that in retrospect weren't actually racist at all, and joy-killing (and gag-ruining) dissections of great visual gags THAT WE HADN'T SEEN YET! So, like, what's wrong with just watching a movie?

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/when_the_clouds_roll_by#c1039073 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/when_the_clouds_roll_by#c1039073 Film Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:25:59 -0800 Comment by MvB Not to pile on, but having sat through one of her intros before, I sat in the lobby until she was through. I have this Lewis Black-ish reaction to her stupid getting stuck in my head.

]]> MvB http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/when_the_clouds_roll_by#c1039106 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/when_the_clouds_roll_by#c1039106 Film Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:41:15 -0800 Comment by Emily Steed Wow. I took a film class with Jennifer Bean and I really enjoyed her lectures and the class as a whole. I never noticed her playing with her hair, but she did fiddle with her scarves. I have to disagree on the rambling - during the class I took, there was a fair amount of participation from students and she always worked really hard to get a good discussion going.

]]> Emily Steed http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/when_the_clouds_roll_by#c1039154 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/when_the_clouds_roll_by#c1039154 Film Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:14:18 -0800 Comment by Jen Your all getting an F!
J Bean

]]> Jen http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/when_the_clouds_roll_by#c1039296 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/when_the_clouds_roll_by#c1039296 Film Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:53:54 -0800 Comment by randy Sounds almost as dull as one of your reviews Annie.

]]> randy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/when_the_clouds_roll_by#c1039306 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/when_the_clouds_roll_by#c1039306 Film Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:03:34 -0800 Comment by annie @5: Jennifer Bean may be annoying, but I think she knows the difference between your and you're.

@6: Uh, wow. I am slain.

]]> annie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/when_the_clouds_roll_by#c1039397 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/when_the_clouds_roll_by#c1039397 Film Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:30:59 -0800