#Charles Johnston

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Hard to believe that a place like this ever existed in midtown, but this is the Charles Clinton Marshall house at 117 East 55th Street in 1921-22. Tea house/sleeping porch. Hand-colored glass lantern slide.

Photo: Frances Benjamin Johnston via the LoC

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Charles Chaplin and Harry Green on the set of the film "A King in New York" (1957)

Below are photos with the actors: Dawn Addams and Oliver Johnston.

Charlie Chaplin is interviewed on the way to the premiere of his latest film "A King in New York" 1957 :

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Burn, Witch, Burn will be released on Blu-ray on September 17 via Kino Lorber. The 1962 British horror film has reversible artwork with its alternate title, Night of the Eagle.

Sidney Hayers (Circus of Horrors) directs from a script by Charles Beaumont (The Masque of the Red Death), Richard Matheson (I Am Legend), and George Baxt (The City of the Dead). Peter Wyngarde, Janet Blair, and Margaret Johnston star.

Burn, Witch, Burn has been newly restored in 4K from the original camera negative by StudioCanal. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

US (Burn, Witch, Burn) and UK (Night of the Eagle) versions via seamless branching

Audio commentary by film historian Tim Lucas (new)

Audio commentary by screenwriter Richard Matheson

Interview with Actor Peter Wyngarde

Burn, Witch, Burn theatrical trailer

Night of the Eagle Burn, Witch, Burn

A successful college professor (Peter Wyngarde) raises hell when his pretty wife (Janet Blair) turns out to be a powerful witch—who claims that all of his achievements are just a little something she cooked up! But when the skeptical teacher forces her to give up her spooky spells, a rival witch soon steps in to set a match to his happiness. Now, he can only watch in terror as his career, his home—and even his wife—threaten to go up in smoke as he barrels toward one of the most chilling final showdowns in horror history!

Pre-order Burn, Witch, Burn.

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If you 💜 Brideshead, check My Archive for more - I am blogging about the whole film.

I am starting a rewatch of the 2008 movie adaptation of Brideshead Revisited, a 1945 novel by Evelyn Waugh. This is my most loved Matthew Goode film, based on one of my favourite novels, so it is very close to my heart.

I’ll be using the Director’s Cut bluray.

The collage above shows Charles Ryder's journey from young innocence to loss, love found and disillusion.

📷 My edit from Brideshead Revisited (2008)

The cast of Brideshead Revisited (2008) is magnificent and includes, in addition to Matthew Goode (Charles Ryder), Hayley Awell (Julia Flyte), Ben Wishaw (Sebastian Flyte), Emma Thompson (Lady Marchmain) and Michael Gambon (Lord Marchmain). Emma Thompson took the young actors, who really got on well together, under her wings.

📷 My edit from Brideshead Revisited 📀 bonus features

Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a 1945 novel by Evelyn Waugh. It follows, from the 1920s to the early 1940s, the life and romances of Charles Ryder, his encounter with the aristocratic Flytes and their beautiful stately home Brideshead and his journey of discovery. It explores themes around nostalgia for the past and English nobility, happiness, love and loss and Catholic faith and guilt.

The novel (and film) start and end with older bittersweet Charles as an officer during the war billetted at Brideshead and reminiscing about the past.

📷 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brideshead_Revisited

Brideshead Revisited was turned into a stupendous 11-part mini-series in 1981 by Granada TV with Jeremey Irons and Anthony Andrews. It is an excellent adaptation which received critical acclaim. A high bar for the cast and crew of the 2008 movie who must have felt the weight of history on their shoulders.

Trailer:

https://youtu.be/_ZtPGYLEzpw

📷 My edit from Brideshead Revisited and IMDB

Brideshead Revisited was directed by Julian Jarrold and cinematography is by Jess Hall (both pictured with Matthew Goode). The screenplay is by Jeremy Brock and Andrew Davies. I think the film is a cinematographic gem and feast for the eyes. It’s a shame it got a lukewarm reception. I think the comparisons with an 11-part miniseries, which had the time to unfold the story, are unfair. The film had to condense quite a lot of the book and made some adaptive choices which may be seen as a departure from the novel but it remains, in my view, true to the spirit of the book and is a very good adaptation in its own right.

📷 My edit from Brideshead Revisited 📀 bonus features

The main locations for Brideshead Revisited are Oxford, Venice and Castle Howard, a stately home in Yorkshire. The miniseries used Castle Howard for Brideshead so the director Julian Jarrold hesitated about reusing it, wanting to forge his own path. But he decided to go for it in the end as it fits the descriptions in the book and the baroque architecture “instinctively evokes Catholicism”.

It is a stunning place and one understands why Charles Ryder fell under its spell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Howard

📷 My edit from Brideshead Revisited 📀 bonus features

The original score for Brideshead Revisited was written by Adrian Johnston and is one of my many favourite things about the film. It is beautiful and mirrors wonderfully all the emotions of hope, loss, heartbreak and nostalgia from the story.

Here are a few samples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjq62bxvWE8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chp7LszUYp8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2YXscQND64 

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Charles III | Johnstons of Elgin

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We’re too small for the sky to pay attention to us: Great Fear on the Mountain by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz

In this novel, the stage is set quickly with little fuss. The story opens at a village council meeting in an unnamed Swiss alpine community where the members have gathered to discuss the shortage of available grazing land for their cattle. The situation is acute and the answer seems obvious to some and ominous to others. High on the mountain lies the verdant Sasseneire pasture, abandoned for many…

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Burn, Witch, Burn

To make it seem more of a horror film, American International changed the title of Sidney Hayers’ NIGHT OF THE EAGLE (1962, TCM) to BURN, WITCH, BURN and added a two-and-a-half minute spoken prologue over a dark screen with Paul Frees, doing his best Orson Welles imitation, advising viewers he is casting a spell to protect them from any demons that might escape the screen. That’s almost an insult to Hayers’ stylish, low-key thriller in the tradition of Jacques Tourneur and Val Lewton.

After dismantling the concepts of superstition and the supernatural in his sociology class professor Peter Wyngarde discovers his wife (Janet Blair) has been using witchcraft to advance his career and protect him from the evil witches among the faculty wives and staff in his British university town. Having taught in one small-town university, I can understand her fears and only wish I’d had a few charms to protect myself during my two years of hell. Anyway, Wyngarde insists she destroy all her mystic devices, and sure as shooting, his life starts falling apart. This is done at first by suggestion. Someone sends him a tape recording of one of his lectures, and when he plays it, Blair begins to feel a disturbing undertone as a storm rises. When she stops the tape, a phone call brings the same sounds into the house, and someone or something hammers on the door. These supernatural incursions are well-paced throughout the film, so that when it’s time to bring in a monster of sorts, the audience is prepared for it.

Blair was the requisite American star demanded by American International to help them sell the film in the U.S. She doesn’t attempt a British accent, so it’s fascinating watching her deliver a big British-style performance. Without received pronunciation, it sounds more like soap opera, albeit well-played soap opera. Wyngarde is also good, as is Margaret Johnston, who’s deliciously fruity as an administrator with a few tricks of her own. Hayers shoots it all quite well, with beautiful black-and-white cinematography by Reginald Wyer and a score by William Alwyn that matches the film’s slow burn. The script by “Twilight Zone” mainstays Charles Beaumont and Richard Matheson (anglicized by George Baxt) is in some ways ahead of its time in suggesting that witchcraft was a woman’s way of exercising power in the midst of patriarchy. By curtailing his wife’s power, Wyngarde puts both of them at risk.

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Burn, Witch, Burn | Episode 411

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Burn, Witch, Burn | Episode 411

Jim reflects on a classic tale of witchcraft based on Fritz Leiber Jr;s novel “Conjuring Wife” – 1962’s “Burn, Witch, Burn,” starring Janet Blair, Peter Wyngarde, Margaret Johnston, Anthony Nicholls, Colin Gordon and Reginald Beckwith. With a screenplay written by Richard Matheson and Charles Beaumont and directed by Sydney Hayers, the film centers around the wife of a young college professor who uses spells and incantations to protect her husband from jealous co-workers. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

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8 dicembre … ricordiamo …

8 dicembre … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2023: Ryan O’Neal, Charles Patrick Ryan O’Neal, è stato un attore statunitense figlio di Charles O’Neal, scrittore e sceneggiatore di origini irlandesi, e dell’attrice Patricia Ruth. O’Neal si fece conoscere al grande pubblico recitando nella soap opera Peyton Place (dal 1964 al 1969). Ottenne la fama mondiale grazie all’interpretazione di Oliver Barrett IV nel film Love Story (1970). Fu sposato…

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Twilight Zone The Movie (1983)

In today's review, I explore the fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. As I attempt a #positive review, of the 1983, cinematic retelling of Twilight Zone #DanAykroyd #AlbertBrooks #ScatmanCrothers #JohnLithgow #VicMorrow #KathleenQuinlan

The Twilight Zone, a seminal sci-fi anthology, a collection of atomic-era morality plays, has inspired many and in some cases even became a New Year’s tradition of watching complete marathons of the classic series. It is fair to say the ordinal show had a sizeable impact on generations. In 1983, decades after the original series, five recognisable names of the film world, worked on five stories,…

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Charlie Chaplin, Dawn Addams and Oliver Johnston in the film "A King in New York", directed and performed by Charles Chaplin.

Below is the movie poster.

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Real pirate names for #TalkLikeAPirateDay! 🦜🏴‍☠️

ARRRR, the disappointment! This list of mostly non-piratical pirate names (John Desfarges, Peter Morel, Robert Johnston, Charles Dickinson, etc.) come from the case file of United States v. John Defarges, et. al. for charges of piracy, from the records of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. New Orleans. More documents from this case, including the indictment and witness affidavits are available in the online catalog.

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in the case of denji, god and a dog. chainsaw man, tatsuki fujimoto. @/griefmother on instragram; portrait of the illness as nightmare, leila chatti. 2020; hereditary, ari aster. 2018; the book of images, rainer maria rilke. 1902; caravaggio, doubting thomas. 1601; egghead, bo burnham’s. 2013; george bataille, guilty (tr. bruce boone); blood on the tracks, shuzo oshimi. 2017-2023; (x); morning in the burning house, margaret atwood. 1939-; cave dwellers, dragan bibin. 1984-; jeniffer carpenter (dexter interview); unnamed, miles johnston; as consciousness is harnessed to flesh, susan sontag. 1964-1980; charles bukowski, "hurry slowly," come on in! 2006; (x).