Leonard Maltin describes his latest trip to Syracuse to watch the Really Old Films:
It’s fascinating to see films about which little is known and make your own discoveries and judgments. That’s what happens at Cinefest every year as hundreds of diehard movie buffs gather at a hotel outside of Syracuse , New York for four days of nonstop screenings. There’s also a dealer’s room filled with films, tapes and DVDs, books, and memorabilia, and the camaraderie of friends who’ve been assembling this way for twenty-six years. ...
One of the oddest films shown this or any year was an appalling 1922 release called The Isle of Love which purported to star Rudolph Valentino and Virginia Rappe, the woman who died at Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle’s notorious 1921 party at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco. In fact, the bulk of the picture was filmed in 1918 with popular female impersonator Julian Eltinge in the leading role, but its anti-Hun theme made the film unreleasable after the Armistice on November 11 of that year. Several years later, a crafty producer took every inch of bit player Valentino’s footage, all that existed on Rappe, and shot some new, completely extraneous footage of bathing beauties and a slapstick comedian frolicking on the shore of the “Isle of Love” to turn this patchwork into a so-called feature film. The only problem with it is that it’s unwatchable.
Pre-Code films of the early 1930s are always welcome at Cinefest, and this year’s program featured an obscure one called Goodbye Love (1933) starring Charlie Ruggles, Sidney Blackmer, and Verree Teasdale that’s filled with racy dialogue and situations, including the aforementioned sequence in Alimony Jail. After tasting a cocktail served by his ex-wife, Ruggles chides, “You haven’t cleaned your bathtub lately.” ...
I have a difficult time explaining to some friends and colleagues why I’m willing to leave California and trek to Syracuse in the dead of winter every year, but I wouldn’t miss it for the world. If you want to learn more about this annual event, go to http://www.picking.com/cinefest2006.html and put your name on the mailing list.
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