...Sad news this week, the October 2020 Lone Pine Film Festival was cancelled due to the coronavirus. I was hoping that one might remain on the calendar since it's still several months out and much of the festival takes place outdoors, but at the same time I can't say I'm surprised by the decision. Most film fests have decided not to invest in planning in this uncertain environment and instead to focus on next year.
...Capitolfest in Rome, New York, is bucking the trend and planning to go ahead this August. Difficulty obtaining films from closed archives means that the Joan and Constance Bennett tribute planned for this year has been pushed back to 2021, but the festival is going ahead from August 14th-16th showing other silent and early sound rarities. I'm told that the theater's ample seating should make any "social distancing" necessary doable. Thanks very much to regular reader Jane for the information.
...Take a photo tour of a striking Hollywood Hills home once owned by Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee.
...Indiewire has details on the Netflix deal to purchase the Egyptian Theatre from the American Cinematheque. I must say I find it disconcerting that Netflix has the option to sell the theater a dozen years from now, with the new owner able to kick out the American Cinematheque one year after assuming ownership. The media environment changes so rapidly, who knows where Netflix will be at as a company a decade from now?
...I enjoy Western reviews by James Reasoner at his blog Rough Edges. Here's one of the Hopalong Cassidy film TEXAS MASQUERADE (1944).
...Thanks to the anonymous reader who shared a link for a 2019 Los Angeles Times article on Tom Tully in the comments for my review of RACHEL AND THE STRANGER (1948). I'm sharing the story here as I think it will be of interest to many of my readers who have enjoyed the work of this fine character actor.
...Silent film historian and locations expert John Bengtson is working to have a Hollywood alley named for silent comedy icons Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and Buster Keaton, who all shot films there.
...A happy personal note: Our youngest son graduated today from UC San Diego. It seems as though it was just yesterday that he was moving in! No photos, as like everyone else this year he had a "virtual" graduation, but I wanted to note his accomplishment here. Our oldest daughter graduated from the University of Southern California in 2010, our oldest son from Northern Arizona University in 2016, and our younger daughter from the University of Oregon in 2017. We are done!
...For additional recent links of interest to classic film fans, please check out my June 6th roundup.
Have a great week!
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