Lolita's Classics

Friday, May 8, 2009

Colorizing attempt

I've long had the urge to learn how to colorize black and white photographs, and today it happened.

For some days now (when I forced myself to take a pause from unpacking those damn boxes filling the place) I've been cruising around in the classic film bloggosphere, home pages etc, and I've seen so many people having colorized their favourite silver screen stars. Some are amazing, and some just seems to have been taking a little to much of thos hallucinogens...

Anyway - here is my first attempt at it. No surprise that Mr. Rathbone was my first victim, huh?

Swashbucklers!

Henry Daniell and Errol Flynn in The Sea Hawk (1940).

My new poll is about who your favourite swordsman of the silver screen is. In addition to that, I ask you - what is your favourite swashbuckler?

I hereby present to you the legendary sword fight from The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) - in LEGO!

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Poll's closed #7 and #8

Due to my apartment switch I'm a little behind with my poll results - I beg your pardon for that.

Therefore I will display the results of my last two polls, and then start another one right away!

Poll number seven was about your favourite Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone.

Since there were no less than 14 of these films, the votes were quite scattered. All films got one vote each, except for the first and second place. The second place is shared by:

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) and Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943), with 14 % each of the votes.

And the award goes to...

The Spider Woman (1944) with 21 % of the votes. Isn't Gale Sondergaard wonderfully evil?

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Poll number eight was your favourite Lon Chaney film. Exciting, huh?

All positions in this poll are shared! Sharing the third place, with 6 % each are:

The Ace of Hearts (1921), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), Shadows (1922) and The Penalty (1920).

The second place is shared by three great Chaney films, being:

The Blackbird (1926), Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928) and Chaney's only talkie - The Unholy Three (1930).

And the first place is split between the two, probably most legendary, Chaney films:

The Phantom of the Opera (1925) and The Unknown (1927). You've got a wonderful taste, people!

May I give to you the famous unmasking scene from The Phantom of the Opera?

"Feast your eyes - glut your soul, on my accursed ugliness!"

Monday, May 4, 2009

Back with pictures!

Dear friends.

Writing to you is a totally exhausted woman, starting to resemble a mental breakdown with all these cardboard boxes, paper bags, empty beer cans and chaos around her - but at least I'm situated at our new downtown place with a comfortable chair on the balcony to prepare for many cigarette breaks. (Believe me, they're needed!)

And our bed will arrive first tomorrow morning. Three nights with mee sleeping on the thinnest sofa ever existed, and my fiancée on an inflatable matress. (But since we're used to sharing a 110 cm wide bed, the new 160 cm will be considered as real luxuary!)

I'm still too confused and tired to have any blog inspiration today, but I felt that I wanted to scramble down some words here anyway. I thought that I could share pictures of celebreties doing all that I want to do now in this mess - drinking.

And regarding my upcoming, cool DVD collection special: it will come up in a month or so, when I have been able to order the shelves for them. (Lack of money is such a bitch.) I was thinking about filming it and narrate, instead of just putting up some photos. What do you think of that idea?