#susan was a baby and the only reason she survived is because she was hidden in her mother’s robes and by some miracle didn’t make a sound

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it’s a 100% a headcanon but i will always believe susan’s parents died in the first war too and she was subsequently raised by amelia.

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone: Everyone Lives AU

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Chapter Sixteen Through the Trapdoor

Dear Sirius,

Detention was exciting. We went into the Forbidden Forest. Met some centaurs.

I know I tell you lots of stuff and make you promise not to tell Mum and Dad, but can you keep this one a secret, too?

When we were in the Forbidden Forest, we were looking for a hurt unicorn. I finally found it, but it was already dead. And something was drinking its blood. Then it came for me. It was terrifying. A dark, hooded, cloaked-thing. A centaur named Firenze scared it off and saved me. But I keep having nightmares about it. And there’s this green flash. And a woman screaming. Sometimes it sounds like Mum. And my scar keeps hurting.

Promise you won’t tell them? They get weird about my scar. All quiet and distant, and I don’t want them to worry. It’s just nightmares like normal, right?

Love, Harry

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Dear Harry,

Congrats on surviving your first detention! You’ll make it alright.

I wouldn’t worry too much about your nightmares. Your exams are coming up, aren’t they? The Forbidden Forest can be a bit scary, and the extra stress of exams can make it worse.

You’re better off asking your Dad or Remus about what you saw. It sounds a bit like a Dementor, but those shouldn’t be in the Forbidden Forest. Might’ve been a Boggart.

I promise not to tell your parents about it, but you really shouldn’t feel like you can’t tell them. They’re your Mum and Dad, and no one but them loves you more. They only want what’s best for you, and sometimes they get a little worried about you. It’s because they love you.

I told Remus I was getting some stress headaches and he gave me a funny look, but recommended some teas. I tucked the recipes in. Maybe you can sneak some potions supplies out from under Snape’s nose, eh? And I also added on some hexes for that Malfoy kid. Nothing de-stresses for exams like hexing Slytherins who deserve it.

Best of luck!

Love, Sirius

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Dear Remus,

I had detention in the Forbidden Forest. We were looking for a hurt unicorn. We didn’t find it in time, though. But I did meet some centaurs. One of them was friendly. His name was Firenze. The other two didn’t seem to like me much. I think they knew about when I was a baby and You-Know-Who tried to kill me, Mum, and Dad. They didn’t seem very happy about the whole thing. Are all centaurs like that? They kept talking about Mars. But we don’t take Divination until third year, so I have no idea what it means.

What happens to you if you kill a unicorn? And are the centaurs any better at Divination than humans?

Love, Harry

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Dear Harry,

I’m sorry you had to see a dead unicorn. It’s a tragic thing. No one should have to see something like that.

But you’re very lucky to have met some centaurs! They don’t usually like talking with humans, but I understand Hagrid is on decent terms with them. I’m glad you met Firenze. He is a dear friend of mine who helped me through a difficult time at Hogwarts.

I wouldn’t take anything the other two said personally. Centaurs generally aren’t sociable, but I’ve heard they’re more cantankerous than usual. The Ministry’s been pushing through new laws and restricting what lands they’re allowed to live on. Dumbledore’s been very kind to let them roam the forests around Hogwarts. And if you’re worried that they’re supporters of You-Know-Who, rest easy. Centaurs stay out of the affairs of humans, and if it came down to it, You-Know-Who would exterminate them. He was never fond of half-breeds in his regime.

Good luck in your exams. I’ve included some recipes for relaxation and increased concentration. They’re not potions, just teas with magical properties. So it isn’t cheating, and you should be able to brew them yourself. I think Ms. Granger might like to try them as well.

Love, Remus Lupin

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Dear Mum and Dad

Exams are coming up. Hermione has made colour-coded notes for us and everything, so I think we’ll be okay.

Detention was fine. And I feel bad about losing the points for Gryffindor, but we were breaking rules for the right reasons, so I don’t feel bad about what we did. It was to protect Hagrid, and that’s okay.

But the Forbidden Forest is pretty terrifying. I was glad we had Hagrid. And we met some centaurs.

I’ll see you guys soon.

Love, Harry

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Dear Harry,

Best of luck in your exams. I included some scones for a midnight study snack. But the best thing for you is a good night’s sleep.

Your father seems to think you must’ve had a grand old time in the Forbidden Forest. I think he and Sirius and Uncle Remus did a lot of illegal adventuring in their day. I hope you weren’t too frightened.

I’ve never seen a centaur. They’re supposed to be lovely. You’ll have to tell us all about it when you come home.

We’ll see you soon!

Lots of love, Mum and Dad

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And somehow, they made it through exams. Voldemort never came pouncing out of any hidden doors, or ducked around dark corners. And no one fainted — though Neville nearly did in Potions.

Their last exam was History of Magic. Then they were free to relax beside the lake. At least, Harry and Ron were relaxing. Hermione was going over her notes, looking for the answers to all the exam questions.

“The 1637 Werewolf Code of Conduct wasn’t all that important, or Elfric the Eager.”

“The 1637 Werewolf Code of Conduct was revolutionary,” Harry said, “and it prevented hunters from coming after werewolves who abided by the rules. It allowed Werewolves to be treated like Beings and not Dark Beasts.”

“I know that,” Hermione snapped. “I just meant for the exam.”

“The exam is over. Why not just pay attention to the parts that matter?”

“Like the 1637 Werewolf Code of Conduct?” Ron laughed, and Harry’s ears burned, but he couldn’t explain to Ron why the Werewolf Code of Conduct was so important.

Harry sat up and rubbed his forehead. He saw Neville, Hannah Abbott, and Susan Bones coming down the path. He had barely spoken to Susan this year. He wondered briefly what her exams had been like, then pain shot through his scar.

Harry groaned and laid back down in the grass. “I wish I knew what it means! It happens sometimes, but not as often as this.”

“Maybe Madam Pomfrey will know what to do,” suggested Hermione.

“I’m not ill. Maybe it’s a warning. I think it means danger’s coming.”

But it was too hot to convince Ron and Hermione to do anything. They told him he was just stressed from the exams, and that there was no sense worrying with Dumbledore around. And that they at least were sure Snape didn’t know how to get past Fluffy, since he’d failed last Halloween. Quirrel hadn’t helped him; it was only Hagrid who knew about Fluffy, so there was nothing to worry about. Hagrid would never turn against Dumbledore.

Harry jumped up so suddenly, he startled his friends. “We’ve got to see Hagrid right now.” He walked so quickly towards Hagrid’s hut, his friends had to jog to catch up with him.

“Don’t you think it’s odd,” Harry explained, “that what Hagrid wants more than anything else is a dragon, and a stranger turns up who just happens to have an egg in his pocket? How many people wander around with dragon eggs if it’s against wizard law? Lucky they found Hagrid, don’t you think? Why didn’t I see it before?”

“What are you talking about?” Ron groaned as they approached Hagrid’s hut.

Hagrid was sitting outside, enjoying the sun, and smiled pleasantly at the trio. “Hullo. Exams all finished? Want ter stay fer tea?”

Ron started to accept, but Harry interrupted. “You know that night you won Norbert? What did the stranger you were playing cards with look like?”

Hagrid scratched at his beard. “Dunno. He wouldn’ take his cloak off. It’s not that unusual. Yeh get a lot o’ funny folk in the Hog’s Head — Mighta bin a dragon dealer, mightn’ he?”

“Did you talk to him about Hogwarts at all?”

“Mighta come up. Yeah… he asked me what I did, I told ‘im I look after the creatures here. I said I’d always wanted a dragon egg. He kept buyin’ me drinks…. I told ‘im after Fluffy, a dragon’d be easy.”

“And did he seem interested in Fluffy?”

“Well — yeah. How many three-headed dogs d’yeh meet, even at Hogwarts? So I told ‘im, Fluffy’s a piece of cake if yeh know how to calm him down. Jus’ play a bit o’ music and he’ll go straight off ter sleep —”

That was all Harry needed to hear. He ignored Hagrid shouting after him as he headed up to the castle. “We’ve got to go to Dumbledore. Snape has everything he needs to get into the dungeon and the Sorcerer’s Stone.”

They started up towards the Headmaster’s office, but they were stopped at the stairs by Professor McGonagall.

“You wanted to see Professor Dumbledore?” she said with a frown. “Why?”

“Er — it’s a secret,” Harry explained weakly.

She raised her eyebrows and pursed her lips. “Professor Dumbledore left ten minutes ago. He received an urgent owl from the Ministry of Magic and left at once for London.”

“He’s gone? Now? But this is important!”

“Professor Dumbledore is a very great wizard. He has many demands—“

“Professor McGonagall, it’s about the Philosopher's Stone —”

Professor McGonagall dropped all of her books to the floor in shock, and did not even stoop to pick them up. “How do you know —”

“Professor, I think Snape is going to steal the stone and I’ve got to tell Professor Dumbledore.” McGonagall’s shock gave way to suspicion. “I don’t know how you found out about the Stone, but rest assured, no one can possibly steal it. It’s far too well protected.”

She refused to listen to any more of the stories and explanations, and the three were forced to retreat to their common room in defeat. Harry whispered to them that he was sure it would be tonight that Snape went to steal the stone.

“But without Dumbledore,” Hermione said, “There’s nothing we can do about it.”

“I can steal the stone first,” Harry said, green eyes determined.

“You can’t! You’ll be expelled!”

“You’re mad if you think you can do that, mate. There’s a whole pack of enchantments protecting the stone.”

“So what?” Harry shouted at them. “How do I make you guys understand?” He lowered his voice so the rest of the common room couldn’t hear. “If Snape gets the stone, Voldemort comes back. You’ve all heard what it was like when he tried to take over. There won’t be a Hogwarts left. He killed a lot of people and I won’t let it happen again. Not when I can do something about it.”

Harry thought maybe this was what Firenze meant when he said there was something horrible in his future. He was going to face Voldemort for the stone. Well, it was that or do nothing, and if his parents, Sirius, and Uncle Remus had taught him anything, it was that doing nothing was just as bad as going dark.

“Yes, you’re right,” Hermione said very quietly.

“I’ll take the Invisibility Cloak so I don’t get caught.”

“Is it big enough to cover all three of us?” Ron asked.

“You don’t have to come —”

“As if we’d let you go alone.”

“How do you think you’ll get to the Stone without us?” Hermione sniffed. “I’m going to go through my books for some useful spells.”

Harry’s chest swelled. He hadn’t thought they’d help him. It’d be dangerous, and maybe they didn’t understand, but it would be wonderful to have someone with him. Wonderful to have the two people outside his family that he trusted just as much.

[mercerislandbooks]

Birds, Books, and Botany

In much of the country, the month began with roaring winter storms, but that wasn’t the case here. Our early March was a lamb, so gentle and solicitous that it brought mint jelly with it and invited Northwesterners to tie on a bib. I accepted the offer and bit into the fair weather with gusto, hitting the trails and boardwalks at the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge in south Puget Sound. This protected estuary is home to all manner of creatures—my hiking buddies and I glimpsed deer and coyotes hidden in the tall grass—but it’s the birds that are the big draw. Bald eagles, horned owls, great blue herons, and cackling geese compete with smaller, brighter-plumed redwings and wigeons for the attention of amateur gawkers and long-lensed professional photographers.

It’s a quietly spectacular show, one that inspires me to do a bit of research before I take it in again. There are many good options available, but for some inexplicable reason I’m drawn to The Crossley ID Guide, so a copy of that will be in my pack on my next excursion.

I’ll also be bearing the knowledge of how fragile and ephemeral such opportunities are. While the Nisqually Refuge is a success story, a thriving stretch of territory reclaimed for nature, there are dwindling numbers of places like it. Sorting through the photos from my walk, I remembered the cautionary account of another wetland that appears in The Moth Snowstorm by Michael McCarthy:

Saemangeum in South Korea: the biggest destruction of an estuary that has ever taken place ... 40,000 hectares ... which at various times of the year hosted so many waders that it was by far the most important shorebird site in Korea ... perhaps in all of Asia. It was phenomenal. It was one of the wonders of the bird world. Now it is gone, snuffed out by a giant engineering vanity project, the building of the world’s biggest sea wall; a whole ecosystem annihilated. And standing here gazing upon it, at what it has become, I find welling up in me an unaccustomed emotion which I register with shock as rage.

McCarthy’s memoir/manifesto is at times a painful read, laying out the brutal extent of the environmental losses we’ve suffered, but it’s also an exhilarating one. Some years ago I wrote about how rare it is to find non-fiction that rises to the level of literature. This is one of those rare books. It speaks with an impassioned, personal voice, convincing with its argument and stunning with the beauty of its writing. You’ll leave it with a renewed sense of wonder and a desire to improve your surroundings, not because it’s the right thing to do, but for the sheer joy of it.

Of course, some people—better souls than I—don’t need to read a book to find that wonder and desire. They live with it every day and write their own books about it. Among the first to do this was Aldo Leopold, the early environmental advocate whose classic collection A Sand County Almanac will turn sixty next year. His essayistic journey through the seasons on his farm in central Wisconsin had a seminal influence on the conservation movement akin to that of Thoreau’s Walden, and his homestead is today a National Historic Landmark.

Leopold was by no means alone on the land. He lived there with his wife and five children, who came to share his deep ecological awareness—all of the Leopold offspring had notable careers in one field of environmental science or another. Youngest daughter Estella brought the family tradition to the Northwest, becoming a professor at the University of Washington in the 1970s. She shares an appealing child’s-eye perspective in her memoir Tales from the Leopold Shack, and elaborates in an interview:

It was fun being out in the shack. There was so much to experience. We witnessed seasonal changes—birds migrating, the succession of plants. We learned about the ecosystem, like which plants were invasive versus native, which plants deer liked and which ones the rabbits ate. We planted hundreds of baby pines and prairie plants. But it never felt like work, even when we were working to improve the Shack or managing and rehabilitating the land ...

I hope people today understand the importance of giving our youth close, immersive experiences in nature. Having a family cabin in the country, owning or adopting some land as a community or family, even camping—something that helps you connect with nature.

I hope my father’s ideas also encourage parents to be less apprehensive about letting their children explore the outdoors, ask questions and come to love nature. Our entire future rests upon it.

Those sentiments about the necessity of getting children into nature may sound obvious, even clichéd, but I for one don’t mind hearing them. As someone who grew up without ever spending a night in a tent, I need prompting before I dare the great outdoors. And even though I’ve seen the benefits of free-range play with my own children, it’s still something I find easier to write about than to encourage every day.

While I struggle to make time for occasional park visits, third and fourth generation Leopolds are putting these invaluable lessons about healthy growth, both personal and environmental, into practice. Scott Freeman is a UW biologist who, along with his wife Susan Leopold Freeman, has taken on the project of restoring a waterway on the Olympic Peninsula. They started by purchasing eighteen acres of disused, damaged farmland and have spent the past decade clearing, planting, and expanding their holdings in an attempt to bring the land back into balance. Through their efforts, and with the assistance of their children, they’ve brought fish and other wildlife back to where they always belonged. Their book, Saving Tarboo Creek, written by Scott and illustrated by Susan, describes the good they’ve done for the land and for their family by turning fallow fields into forest:

Years later, virtually all of the trees that survived their first few years in the pasture finally began to get broad enough to start shading out the grass below. It will still be many years before the canopy closes in the pasture and the grasses begin to be replaced with shade-loving forest herbs, shrubs, and ferns. But now, the seedlings’ roots are thick and broad enough to provide a strong foundation and win the competition for soil nutrients and water. We no longer have to maintain the restoration; it maintains itself. At the tipping point when the saplings begin to win and the grasses and invasives begin to lose, restorationists say, “The trees are free to grow.”

I like that phrase. It’s a goal in land stewardship that’s parallel to the goal Susan and I had as parents. We wanted to raise our boys, like these trees, so they got to that tipping point and no longer needed our care. Thereafter, they were strong and independent. They were free to grow.

Stake a few plants for the sake of my kids? I can get behind that. I’m not promising to transform the landscape the way these writers have (and I don’t plan to cut down my reading time) but I hereby pledge to get some dirt under my fingernails. Right now I only have a window box to work with, but that’s a start.

--James

Originally published by NW Book Lovers. Great blue heron image courtesy of Fleagle Photo Service.

[mrmichaelchadler]

#340 October 30, 2018

Matt writes: Just because you're stuck at home answering the door for trick-or-treaters on Halloween doesn't mean you can't have a delightfully spooky evening yourself. Two ten-hour programs ripe for seasonal binging recently premiered on Netflix and received enthusiastic reviews at RogerEbert.com. Mike Flanagan's limited series "The Haunting of Hill House," reviewed here by Brian Tallerico, is a genuinely unnerving, often brilliant reimagining of Shirley Jackson's classic novel about ominous ghosts, mental illness and frayed familial bonds. The other must-see show is "Riverdale" creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's "Chilling Adventures of Sabrina," a marvelously acted, richly provocative new vehicle for the supernaturally inclined Archie Comics heroine, played by a perfectly cast Kiernan Shipka. In my review of the first season, I explore how Osgood Perkins' masterful debut feature, "The Blackcoat's Daughter" (starring Shipka), served as a major influence on Aguirre-Sacasa, and could serve as ideal Halloween programming itself (check out the trailer embedded below...)

Trailers

The Prodigy (2019). Directed by Nicholas McCarthy. Written by Jeff Buhler. Starring Taylor Schilling, Brittany Allen, Colm Feore. Synopsis: A mother concerned about her young son's disturbing behavior thinks something supernatural may be affecting him. Opens in US theaters on February 8th, 2019.

The Curse of La Llorona (2019). Directed by Michael Chaves. Written by Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis. Starring Linda Cardellini, Patricia Velasquez, Raymond Cruz. Synopsis: Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother suspected of child endangerment, a social worker and her own small kids are soon drawn into a frightening supernatural realm. Opens in US theaters on April 19th, 2019.

The Possession of Hannah Grace (2018). Directed by Diederik Van Rooijen. Written by Brian Sieve. Starring Stana Katic, Shay Mitchell, Grey Damon. Synopsis: When a cop who is just out of rehab takes the graveyard shift in a city hospital morgue, she faces a series of bizarre, violent events caused by an evil entity in one of the corpses. Opens in US theaters on November 30th, 2018.

The Clovehitch Killer (2018). Directed by Duncan Skiles. Written by Christopher Ford. Starring Charlie Plummer, Dylan McDermott, Samantha Mathis. Synopsis: A picture-perfect family is shattered when the work of a serial killer hits too close to home. Dylan McDermott stars in this chilling portrait of all-American evil. Opens in US theaters on November 16th, 2018.

Vice (2018). Written and directed by Adam McKay. Starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell. Synopsis: A bureaucratic Washington insider quietly becomes the most powerful man in the world as Vice-President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways still felt today. Opens in US theaters on December 25th, 2019.

Destroyer (2018). Directed by Karyn Kusama. Written by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi. Starring Nicole Kidman, Toby Kebbell, Tatiana Maslany. Synopsis: A police detective reconnects with people from an undercover assignment in her distant past in order to make peace. Opens in US theaters on December 25th, 2018.

Vox Lux (2018). Written and directed by Brady Corbet. Starring Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Christopher Abbott. Synopsis: An unusual set of circumstances brings unexpected success to a pop star. Opens in US theaters on December 7th, 2018.

Bird Box (2018). Directed by Susanne Bier. Written by Eric Heisserer (based on the novel by Josh Malerman). Starring Sandra Bullock, Sarah Paulson, Rosa Salazar. Synopsis: A woman and a pair of children are blindfolded and make their way through a dystopian setting along a river. Debuts on Netflix on December 21st, 2018.

All Creatures Here Below (2018). Directed by Collin Schiffli. Written by David Dastmalchian. Starring David Dastmalchian, Karen Gillan, Jennifer Morrison. Synopsis: A desperate young couple on the run seek refuge in Kansas City. US release date is TBA.

The Aftermath (2019). Directed by James Kent. Written by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse (based on the novel by Rhidian Brook). Starring Alexander Skarsgård, Keira Knightley, Jason Clarke. Synopsis: Post World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German who previously owned the house. Opens in US theaters on April 29th, 2019.

Unlovable (2018). Directed by Suzi Yoonessi. Written by Charlene deGuzman, Sarah Adina Smith and Mark Duplass. Starring Charlene deGuzman, John Hawkes, Melissa Leo. Synopsis: A sex and love addicted woman learns what real intimacy is when she starts making music with a reclusive man. Opens in US theaters on November 2nd, 2018.

Speed Kills (2018). Directed by John Luessenhop and Jodi Scurfield. Written by David Aaron Cohen and John Luessenhop (based on the book by Arthur Jay Harris). Starring John Travolta, Katheryn Winnick, Jennifer Esposito. Synopsis: Speedboat racing champion and multimillionaire, Ben Aronoff, leads a double life that lands him in trouble with the law and drug lords. US release date is TBA.

The World Before Your Feet (2018). Directed by Jeremy Workman. Synopsis: For over six years, and for reasons he can't explain, Matt Green, 37, has been walking every block of every street in New York City, a journey of more than 8,000 miles. This documentary follows the story of one man's unusual personal quest and the unexpected journey of discovery, humanity, and wonder that ensues. Opens in US theaters on November 21st, 2018.

Cold Pursuit (2019). Directed by Hans Petter Moland. Written by Frank Baldwin (based on the movie written by Kim Fupz Aakeson). Starring Liam Neeson, Tom Bateman, Emmy Rossum. Synopsis: A snowplow driver seeks revenge against the drug dealers he thinks killed his son. Opens in US theaters on February 8th, 2019.

The Front Runner (2018). Directed by Jason Reitman. Written by Matt Bai, Jay Carson and Jason Reitman (based on the book by Matt Bai). Starring Hugh Jackman, Vera Farmiga, J.K. Simmons. Synopsis: American Senator Gary Hart's presidential campaign in 1988 is derailed when he's caught in a scandalous love affair. Opens in US theaters on November 21st, 2018.

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019). Written and directed by Dean DeBlois (based on the book series by Cressida Cowell). Written by Billy Ray and Mark L. Smith. Starring Jonah Hill, Cate Blanchett, Kristen Wiig. Synopsis: As Hiccup fulfills his dream of creating a peaceful dragon utopia, Toothless' discovery of an untamed, elusive mate draws the Night Fury away. When danger mounts at home and Hiccup's reign as village chief is tested, both dragon and rider must make impossible decisions to save their kind. Opens in US theaters on February 22nd, 2019.

Escape Room (2019). Directed by Adam Robitel. Written by Bragi F. Schut and Maria Melnik. Starring Deborah Ann Woll, Tyler Labine, Taylor Russell. Synopsis: Six strangers find themselves in circumstances beyond their control, and must use their wits to survive. Opens in US theaters on January 4th, 2019.

Rosemary's Baby (1968), 50th anniversary edition. Written and directed by Roman Polanski (based on the novel by Ira Levin). Starring Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon. Synopsis: A young couple moves in to an apartment only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins to control her life. US release date is TBA.

Disability Employment Awareness Month

Matt writes: Chaz Ebert's latest special edition of Thumbnails celebrates National Disability Employment Awareness Month, which ran through the entirety of October. Out writer Scott Jordan Harris assembled a superb list of articles detailing the lack of inclusivity in media and why it must be changed. Click here for the full round-up, which includes Jordan's review of Jenni Gold's documentary, "CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion."

Peter Bogdanovich on Buster Keaton

Matt writes: The great filmmaker and cinema historian Peter Bogdanovich recently spoke with our Editor-at-Large Matt Zoller Seitz about his new documentary, "The Great Buster: A Celebration." Click here to read their full conversation.

Free Movies

The Return of Dracula (1958). Directed by Paul Landres. Written by Pat Fielder. Starring Francis Lederer, Norma Eberhardt, Ray Stricklyn. Synopsis: After a vampire leaves his native Balkans, he murders a Czech artist, assumes his identity, and moves in with the dead man's American cousins.

Watch "The Return of Dracula"

Blood for Dracula (1974). Written and directed by Paul Morrissey. Starring Udo Kier, Vittorio De Sica, Joe Dallesandro. Synopsis: An ailing vampire count travels to Italy with his servant to find a bride.

Watch "Blood for Dracula"

Count Dracula (1977). Directed by Philip Saville. Written by Gerald Savory (based on the novel by Bram Stoker). Starring Louis Jourdan, Frank Finlay, Susan Penhaligon. Synopsis: The vampire count leaves his Transylvanian home to wreak havoc across the world.

Watch "Count Dracula"

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