Review: Alchemy Theatre’s Mack & Mabel
Intimate staging bests Broadway’s Hollywood tragedy
"...same sense of bewilderment comes early and often in Mack & Mabel, on Broadway in 1974 and currently being..."
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May 26, 2022 Arts Post by Bob Abelman
Letters at 3AM: The Dragon on Sennett's Hill
Hollywood is an electric dragon
"...came upon a plaque that marked the site of Mack Sennett's Keystone lot, circa 1912-1930 – a studio that,..."
March 12, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura
Blues Brothers 2000
"...line to be drawn from the seminal work of Mack Sennett and Buster Keaton to Landis' original film, and..."
Feb. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Italian Job
"...doubt. Chase sequences ensue, some of which would do Mack Sennett proud, while Statham, in a swell nod to..."
May 30, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Operation Condor
"...of filmmaking has more to do with the old Mack Sennett two-reelers than it does with modern feature filmmaking,..."
July 25, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Beverly Hills Ninja
"...use. There are only so many ways even a Mack Sennett clown could fall over, and Farley exhausts them..."
Jan. 24, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Cat
"...Cat remade by Tsui Hark and Sam Raimi while Mack Sennett shouts encouragement from the sidelines and you'll get..."
Oct. 28, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Ernest Rides Again
"...comedy has worn thin over the many years since Mack Sennett first hit on it. Likewise, the whole notion..."
Nov. 12, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Letters at 3AM: A Century Since 'The Water Nymph'
On September 23, 1912, Keystone Films released its first comedy, which starred Mabel Normand
"...Beneath the caps: "Mabel Normand, Ford Sterling, Mack Sennett, and Fred Mace, directed by Mr. Sennett and..."
Sept. 21, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura
Letters at 3AM: Shindig on Effie Street
The silent film comedians at Keystone Films lived their art
"...Coy Watson Sr., later an important special-effects innovator for Mack Sennett and Douglas Fairbanks. Why Watson took that photograph..."
Dec. 17, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura
Letters at 3AM: Of Mayhem and Delight
The Keystone films, especially those of Charles Chaplin, reflected the present and heralded the future
"...the 1890s and, most of all, the works of Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand from 1911 onward. Several credits..."
Dec. 3, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura
Letters at 3AM: Mabel Normand After 100 Years
April 1, 1912, has not gone down in history but deserves to
"...One hundred years ago, Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett broke through to something new – new not..."
March 23, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura
Letters at 3AM
In the world of Charlie Chaplin chaos reigns … and is celebrated: The Little Tramp turns 90
"...ago – Feb. 2, 1914, to be exact – Mack Sennett released a nasty little comedy called "Making a..."
Feb. 20, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura
Letters at 3AM: February 1914
Charlie Chaplin's iconic Tramp was really born in 'Kid Auto Races at Venice,' not 'Mabel's Strange Predicament,' as commonly thought
"...reel with a picture called "Olives and Their Oil." Mack Sennett's Keystone studio produced comedies primarily, but also made..."
Jan. 24, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura
Letters at 3AM
How far are you willing to go to make a picture?
"...was said that Henry Lehrman, while directing comedies on Mack Sennett's lot circa 1913, loosed lions upon unsuspecting extras..."
March 13, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura
Get Ready for the 2022 B. Iden Payne Awards
The full list of nominees before Monday's award ceremony
"...Anna in the Tropics, Alchemy Theatre's new staging of Mack & Mabel, ZACH Theatre's minimalist but emotionally loaded version..."
Oct. 22, 2022 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker
Book Review: Edendale by Michael Ventura
Former “Letters at 3am” columnist celebrates the early days of Hollywood in new novel
"...16-year-old whose daredevil aplomb earns her a home at Mack Sennett’s Keystone Studios. This first major studio in the..."
March 1, 2024 Arts Feature by Jay Trachtenberg
2017 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Live Action
Why not form an opinion instead of guessing what will win?
"...selection committee. (Not so in 1932: Hal Roach and Mack Sennett won the first Oscars for live action short..."
Feb. 10, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary
Visionary Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin films the Royal Winnepeg Ballet’s rendition of the Dracula story.
"...actors tend to emote in the broad style of pre-Mack Sennett antiquities – they sport more white pancake on..."
Aug. 29, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Letters at 3AM: Georges Méliès' Tricks and Treats
Creating the possibility that anything could happen onscreen was the great contribution of Georges Méliès
"...to produce. In their first years, D.W. Griffith and Mack Sennett turned out a finished one- or two-reel picture..."
Oct. 23, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura
Letters at 3AM: The Script Needs a Rewrite
Cinema history as it's been commonly taught is just plain wrong
"...can convey, including some very Keystone-ish cops and a Mack Sennett-like chase involving many, many people. (Sennett always said..."
Sept. 25, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura
Curriculum I: 10 Movies to Know America By
"...10. The Mack Sennett-Charlie Chaplin short silent comedies -- Made mostly in..."
Nov. 8, 1996 Column by Michael Ventura
Damien Chazelle and the Fall of Silent Hollywood in Babylon
The director talks falling stars and the great studio inversion of 1927
"...aren't archives about life on set in those days (Mack Sennett wasn't exactly releasing EPKs to the press). So..."
Dec. 22, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Page Two: May the Circle Be Unbroken
Exploitation film's family tree
"...since, maybe for a while, Keystone Studios comedies under Mack Sennett as guided by Mabel Normand? The powerhouse of..."
Feb. 26, 2016 Column by Louis Black
Letters at 3AM: Today, 100 Years Ago
On Feb. 7, 1914, the world first beheld Charlie Chaplin on the screen in his iconic getup
"...a bemused sort of person entered "the Keystone," as Mack Sennett's lot was called. She was 16, barefoot, green-eyed,..."
Feb. 7, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura
Leonard for a Day
Louis Black and Leonard Maltin reminisce on 50 years of moviegoing
"...that I ever took out on the subject was Mack Sennett's autobiography, King of Comedy, which I read and..."
May 24, 2013 Screens Feature
Page Two: Fatty and Mabel
On writing and muses in the bright, fresh morning
"...featured in hundreds of films between 1910 and 1927. Mack Sennett, the driving force behind Keystone comedies, was the..."
Nov. 18, 2011 Column by Louis Black
The Chris Trew Project
The comedian's trifecta in Waterloo Park includes shaving off half his beard
"...Edison had Menlo Park. Mack Sennett had Keystone Studios. And Chris Trew has, frankly,..."
Nov. 5, 2010 Arts Feature by Steve Birmingham
Letters at 3AM: 'Roadie': 30 Years Later
The screenwriter of Roadie visits his younger, more serious self
"...prove he was a director, I suppose. It violated Mack Sennett's great dictum: "Comedy has to be shown. Let..."
March 26, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura
Out of Bounds Comedy Festival
In its eighth year, the annual Austin comedy festival did this city proud
"...style improvisations, mugging and maneuvering like actors in some Mack Sennett reel, plying the physical comedy so well you'd..."
Sept. 11, 2009 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
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