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Film · Metro · 1924

Sherlock Jr.

Name: Sherlock Jr. scores 48 — Live Historic
Item: Sherlock Jr.
Rating: 48
Author: Live Historic

48Watch it awake.

Short and whole: a framed projectionist walks into the movie, and the cuts do the joke.

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The review

Not a giant gross, which is odd once you see how complete the hour is. A projectionist, framed for a theft, falls asleep and steps into the picture on the screen. Buster Keaton. Fine for the kids. The dream is the detection. Tired as I was, that step into the screen still woke me.

The machine of the cuts is the joke. Short for a feature, and whole. He works the projector and gets accused, and the apparatus does the clever part. No second helping the same night. Sit with a child if you want the grin at the splice. It isn't a course in anything. A finished trick was enough.

Journal

Keep Sherlock Jr. in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 48. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Courage and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

The Shop Around the Corner

60 instead of 48

The Shop Around the Corner is still a comedy film, and it scores 60 instead of 48. What you gain is stewardship: You leave a shop still working and two people who can be known.

The eight

7
Industry
A projectionist works the machine, and the cuts of that machine are the joke.
3
Household
A worker and a false theft charge, with no parent or child in the picture.
3
Piety
The dream clears a framed man; it doesn't show a conscience refusing a want.
4
Courage
Framed, he still goes into the screen, a comic risk rather than a sacrifice.
5
Republic
A theft he did not commit is the wrong, and the dream is the detection.
6
Temperance
Short for a feature, and whole, so it ends instead of cueing another reel.
6
Truth
The theft charge is a frame, and the screen-dream is where that lie is chased.
4
Stewardship
It leaves a short complete joke about a projector, not a town to maintain.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 1954

A Star Is Born

48Watch it awake.

She rises, he drinks, the marriage cannot pay it, and the sea is not a love scene.

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The review

She starts as a band singer. A star who is already drinking his career away hears her. She rises. He falls. They marry. The songs are the work, and if you treat the numbers as the whole film you will miss the point. The alcohol is the bill. The marriage cannot pay it. He walks into the sea. Adult.

I have seen a gift and a bottle in the same house, and this one does not pretend the gift wins. That is why I will not call it a love story and stop. The walk into the sea is not a finish you admire. It is the drink finished with him. She is left with the career. Not for children. Do not clap through the numbers as if the sea were just the next cue.

Journal

Keep A Star Is Born in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 48. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

My Fair Lady

58 instead of 48

My Fair Lady is still a musical film, and it scores 58 instead of 48. What you gain is stewardship: What a house can keep is her refusal, not his satisfaction at the experiment.