Come join us as we look back on Welcome To The Basement’s second year. We watch “The Great Train Robbery” and “The Red Balloon”, we induct new members into our hall of fame, retire our old notebooks, issue New Year’s resolution challenges to each other, and there’s even a poem! An end of the year blowout that’s not to be missed.
In Seen It, we discuss dead men, glorious paths and what many consider the greatest film ever made.
I’ve never seen these two shorts but my mom did see, at some point of her childhood, saw The Red Balloon and she did not like it.
I also have a ‘Seen It’ suggestion, the obscure 1928 silent movie directed by Paul Leni called ‘The Man Who Laughs’. I’ve seen this film many times and it’s the only silent film, so far, that I like.
This movie is based on Victor Hugo’s novel of the same name, the two main characters, Gywnplaine and Dea are played by Conrad Veidt, who played Cesare in the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Mary Philbin, who played Christine Daae in The Phantom of the Opera with Lon Chaney, Sr.