― Johnney B (Johnney B), Friday, 30 January 2004 08:21 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 30 January 2004 08:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 30 January 2004 08:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 30 January 2004 08:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 30 January 2004 10:11 (twenty years ago) link
The best of the rhymes was:
"Jingle bells, jingle bells/Coming through the rye/I wish you a Merry Christmas/Even as you and I."
Or there was the four-in-one card:
"Merry Christmas, husband/Happy New Year's nigh/I wish you Easter greetings/Hooray for the fourth of July!"
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 30 January 2004 10:36 (twenty years ago) link
Though Marcello's right that the shorts are generally better, "SOTD", "Way Out West", "The Flying Deuces" (though recycled from different shorts I believe, in part), "Block Heads" are all lovely features, and a few others are enjoyable at least. "A Chump at Oxford" and "Pardon Us" for example.
"The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case" is a real favourite short of mine; but it's pointless really trying to do so as they're generally all wonderful are the Roach shorts; "Laughing Gravy" as well, and the one where they're busking... I could go on.
Destroy: the Fox films, made from 1941-46 roughly. They just miss the point lamentably. I presume "Atoll K." (Utopia), too.
― Tom May (Tom May), Friday, 30 January 2004 11:37 (twenty years ago) link
Nobody has ever confirmed it, so maybe it's just a shaggy dog story, but apparently Stan and Ollie were lined up to appear in the Broadway premiere of "Waiting For Godot" - Stan in particular was up for it and they agreed to do it, but then Ollie had his stroke, so the whole thing had to be called off. Given that Beckett had written the play with Laurel and Hardy in mind, and given the subsequent film he did with Buster Keaton, it's not improbable that this actually might have happened.
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 30 January 2004 11:45 (twenty years ago) link
Have many people actually seen "Film"? It doesn't seem to be much in circulation; all I've seen is a clip used in the redoubtable Brownlow/Gill documentary series on Keaton. Any who have seen it; how would you rate it, in the respective oeuvres? I recall a brilliant story about Beckett going to meet Keaton in his apartment in the preliminary stages of the project, and Keaton largely talking about baseball... and there being a lot of silence. ;)
― Tom May (Tom May), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 30 January 2004 18:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 30 January 2004 18:35 (twenty years ago) link
Best comedy duo ever, and subject of a NYC retro beginning this weekend:
http://movingimage.us/site/screenings/pages/2005/index_laurel_hardy.html
I laugh to the point of hyperventilation in the last 10 minutes of Sons of the Desert.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 November 2005 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Beckett's Film is availabe on the web, here.
― Jeff LeVine (Jeff LeVine), Friday, 18 November 2005 21:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 November 2005 21:46 (eighteen years ago) link
http://homepage.mac.com/alexinnyc/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2005-07-31%2007.36.52%20-0700/Image-C2953A2C01CF11DA.jpg http://img205.echo.cx/img205/8568/before7px.jpg
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 18 November 2005 23:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 19 November 2005 10:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― recovering optimist (Royal Bed Bouncer), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 23:10 (eighteen years ago) link
Which of you avant-gardists have seen this Ken Jacobs L&H remix?
http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0050,arthur,20596,20.html
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 December 2005 18:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 December 2005 18:57 (eighteen years ago) link
Morbius, in honor of your birthday, I am watching Sons Of The Desert.
"Shiphiked?""Yes! We thumbed our way!"
― In The Court Of The Redd King Harvest (Ken L), Sunday, 23 April 2006 02:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 23 April 2006 04:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― JTS (JTS), Sunday, 23 April 2006 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 23 April 2006 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 14 May 2006 06:13 (seventeen years ago) link
10-disc set in October!
http://insidepulse.com/2011/07/19/disc-news-laurel-hardy-get-a-fine-mess-of-a-boxset/
Also, I walked up the Music Box steps on Saturday night.
― joyless shithead (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
It's been ages since I saw Sons of the Desert, but I vividly remember this one moment, where the wives are watching the newsreel of the convention and L&H are suddenly in extreme close-up mugging and cavorting, as brilliant.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
I hope it focuses on the shorts. May be a Christmas list item.
― bamcquern, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
a tad disappointed it's just the talkies, I hope good sales means silents later.
― joyless shithead (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
Starts at about the 6:00 mark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7Nd2J_SutM
The way they come back into camera range three or four times--made me laugh as much as anything I can remember.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
<3 them forever. so adorable and hilarious.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
if you've got a multiregion dvd player, this is a much better set:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Laurel-Hardy-Collection-21-disc-Box/dp/B0001K2KE8/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1311114340&sr=1-1
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
Great find Dr Morbius
I was lucky enough to catch most of a Laurel and Hardy marathon on amc this year. I wish I had known ahead of time that it was coming on (I still caught about 16 hours). Needless to say, watching hour after hour of the Hal Roach classics had to of been one of the happiest experiences in my life
I tried to get some friends into Laurel and Hardy but I picked a bad episode (ten minutes of Laurel and Hardy trying to share the same train-car bunk bed wasn't the right introduction). There was definitely some less funny moments in the marathon - like the one where Laurel and Hardy are kids (they wore kid clothes and messed around with gigantic props in a giant house set). My favorite one might of been a 'go to jail' episode where they accidentally escape. I also really like the one where their car keeps breaking down in front of their house
(my friends are probably just too stupid to understand the greatness of Laurel and Hardy; and maybe it's a bit of an acquired taste to the uninitiated)
---
Lately, I've been reading my Krazy Kat anthology. In the biography section it says that George Herriman would go to a LA studio so that he could draw amidst hustle and bustle. It says that he became good friends with Hal Roach
ps. I've been learning to appreciate Krazy Kat a lot more. The punchlines are still pretty weak compared to modern comics but the drawings are quite amazing to look at
― could've been a baller (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
used to watch L&H after church on sundays with my dad- it was the only thing on TV that made him laugh. after L&H they'd show the old Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland show (Judge Hardy? or something). good times
― brownie, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
I started trying to collect 'The Lost Films of Laurel and Hardy' a few years back. But since it's out of print now, each disc in the 10 disc set is like $50 - $100 used
― could've been a baller (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
My great-great aunt apparently choked to death laughing at a Laurel and Hardy film.
― модный хипстер (ShariVari), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 22:35 (twelve years ago) link
hmm, what a way to go?
I think children particularly identify with Stan and his clueless innocence.
― joyless shithead (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 03:24 (twelve years ago) link
be afraid
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/nov/17/laurel-and-hardy-biopic-in-the-pipeline
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 December 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
Saw this in 35mm yesterday, a classic climax
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyngKE_lYPU
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 5 April 2015 14:52 (eight years ago) link
a discovery
Over the weekend, it was quietly announced at the Library of Congress’ festival of “unidentified, underidentified, or misidentified films” that one of the most deeply mourned lost treasures in film history has reappeared. As reported by Pamela Hutchinson at Silent London, silent film historian Jon Mirsalis unexpectedly rediscovered the second reel of Laurel and Hardy’s 1927 film The Battle of the Century, lost for 60 years. The Battle of the Century is not only a crucial film in the careers of Laurel and Hardy, but it contains the biggest, best, funniest execution of the pie-in-the-face gag in cinematic history...
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2015/06/laurel_and_hardy_s_battle_of_the_century_pie_fight_reel_is_found.single.html
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 June 2015 15:12 (eight years ago) link
I am afraid
http://deadline.com/2016/01/steve-coogan-john-c-reilly-to-star-as-stan-laurel-and-oliver-hardy-in-jon-s-bairds-stan-ollie-faye-ward-jeff-pope-1201685254/
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 18 January 2016 20:48 (eight years ago) link
Be Afraid. Even if you get good people...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY91ty2sxIU
First half is OK, second half.. well.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 12:39 (eight years ago) link
seeing B
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 July 2016 17:38 (seven years ago) link
attle of the Century tomw night!
It's a laff riot...
also must add Wrong Again to my fave silent shorts. You really don't see a man's head wedged in a piano by the weight of a horse that often.
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 July 2016 18:56 (seven years ago) link
Reilly makeup jowls/wattle
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/3313691/steve-coogan-and-john-c-reilly-snapped-filming-scenes-for-laurel-and-hardy-biopic/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 18 December 2017 17:05 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTVEbrnWAAAwhr-.jpg
A friend of mine who works for a film archive has found footage previously considered lost from the 1924 film 'Detained'! Including an infamous hanging scene. Dutch article here but the video should play wherever you are.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 12 January 2018 11:58 (six years ago) link
constitution of the SotD fraternal order
https://www.sonsofthedesertnyc.org/constitution
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 19:45 (six years ago) link
Londoners get first look at Coogan & Reilly
https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/announcements/stan-ollie-steve-coogan-john-c-reilly
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
Laughing Gravy
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 16:15 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdcBNrjc3wo
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 14:15 (five years ago) link
Times profile of the NYC tent of the Sons of the Desert
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/30/nyregion/laurel-and-hardy-fans-film-club.html
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 October 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link
opens in US Dec 28
http://www.awardscircuit.com/2018/10/19/middleburg-film-review-stan-ollie-packs-laughs-and-tears-with-career-best-turns-from-steve-coogan-and-john-c-reillly/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 October 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link
reviews mostly respectful
https://www.metacritic.com/movie/stan-ollie/critic-reviews
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 December 2018 19:52 (five years ago) link
It's Laurel & Hardy season at the BFI but the only one I can fit into our schedule is Our Relations. My fiancee loves Buster Keaton but is skeptical - is it a good 'un?
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 5 January 2019 12:54 (five years ago) link
have seen that wither never or 40+ years ago. seems to be regarded as fine if below peak.
tell her Buster said Laurel was the funniest comic.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 5 January 2019 14:25 (five years ago) link
THere's a Steve Coogan interview in yesterday's guardian tuied into the film he just made about Stan & Ollie. I think concentrating on their final UK tour together.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 5 January 2019 16:12 (five years ago) link
yes, see above
any film before 1940 is a decent intro; the earlier, the better mostly
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 5 January 2019 17:03 (five years ago) link
Number one movie in the UK.
Well here’s another nice bit of news you’ve gotten me into! Thanks to everyone who went to see it! 🙏🎥🎬🍾 #StanAndOllie https://t.co/9CcMk1ZgaN— Jon S. Baird (@jonsbaird) January 14, 2019
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 14 January 2019 22:40 (five years ago) link
opens wide(r) in the US on Friday
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 02:14 (five years ago) link
A bromance for the ages.
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Friday, 18 January 2019 22:20 (five years ago) link
I was touched. There were a couple grindingly obvious bio-film moments (the tossed pastry), but not many. Coogan had the subtler, more layered role, very impressive.
Reilly on his L&H obsession:
http://collider.com/john-c-reilly-stan-and-ollie-interview/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 20:35 (five years ago) link
Evanier disliked the bio-film ahistoricity.
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 21:47 (five years ago) link
It was kind of obvious where the elisions and exaggerations were even w/out fact-checking, but hey, dramatic license.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 21:58 (five years ago) link
maze scenes
A Chump at Oxford > The Shining
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 14 June 2020 15:14 (three years ago) link
icymi
https://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/review-laurel-hardy-the-definitive-restorations-on-kit-parker-blu-ray/
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 July 2020 16:34 (three years ago) link
A nice tribute from Mark Hamill:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi7YVW_ezT0
― Langdon Alger Stole the Highlights (cryptosicko), Sunday, 6 December 2020 00:23 (three years ago) link
― модный хипстер (ShariVari), Tuesday, July 19, 2011
underrated post itt
― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Sunday, 6 December 2020 00:32 (three years ago) link
Christmas 1953 Laurel & Hardy visit The Bull Inn in Bottesford Leicestershire (Stan’s Sister was landlady) pic.twitter.com/wMxHauhGGr— John pitchford🌹 (@Johnnypapa64) December 13, 2020
you require a heart of steel not to love this wonderful pic to some degree.
― calzino, Sunday, 13 December 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link