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And someone put a slightly shortened version of the 1912 Albert Capellani film on youtube!!

Okay I'm a few years late but I figure if I just found it someone else might not have seen it either:

the complete 7 hour 1925 Les Miserables film!!!

I got the Hunchback recording on CD . . . for anyone who hasn’t bought it yet, I was just spring for getting it on MP3 only, there’s nothing in the actual booklet making it worth getting, imo. I thought there would be pictures of the production but there were just 5 small pictures on the last page, nothing great, and the rest of the pictures were of the recording session, nothing of which you can’t already see in the video they released online of the session. There are the lyrics, which is nice, but that’s about it.

Books I got from project gutenberg this year that I enjoyed:

Lady Audley’s Secret

Kidnapped

House of Otranto

Book I tried to read but it got way too slow for me in the middle and I petered out:

Robinson Crusoe

I have been reading a couple of old favorite Star Wars fics, and a couple of new (and also new-to-me) ones, before they all get jossed to hell probably, and I usually never rec any fics because I get to them long after they’ve probably already been recced, but I thought I’d mention this one I recently found, because it’s on FF and was written in 2003, so I figure it’s passed under a lot of people’s radars.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1188588/1/Renewal

“Renewal”. Post ROTJ/ Han, Leia and Luke. A darker spin on the events in the years after the Galactic Civil War.

Although I wouldn’t say it’s super dark, just adult. A couple of instances where the author wrote plurals as possessive (i.e. “those are nice flower’s” instead of “those are some nice flowers”) but other than that it’s well written. Really long fic with a decent plot and character dynamics.

Another fic that I am mentioning for the same reasons, although I don’t like it nearly as much as the first fic, but that’s because I just really like the first fic. It’s a still a (imo) pretty decent fic.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3502352/1/In-the-Empire-s-Shadow

“In the Empire’s Shadow”. Post ESB: Vader searches the galaxy for answers about his family. Luke leads the Rogues and tries to avoid his questions. Lando pursues the frozen Han, but Boba Fett viciously protects his bounty. And Mara Jade is hunting Skywalker.

Gavroche from a 1966 Russian cartoon.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.742336382579086.1073741843.126679637478100&type=3

Whoa, someone posted this documentary (in Portuguese, I think?) about Les Miserables and at 3:14 it has some clips (and throughout the whole thing, I think) of the BBC mini-series from 1967. 

Why are there so many cheap knock-off musicals of Phantom and the Hunchback of Notre Dame, but no one wants to make a cheap knock musical version of Les Miserables? Come on, somebody! The Bishop’s sister or Azelma need a solo!

The BBC radio dramatization featuring Roger Allam is now available to buy.

http://www.amazon.com/Miserables-BBC-Radio-full-cast-dramatisation/dp/B00U95O3JK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1435207770&sr=8-1&keywords=Les+Miserables%3A+BBC+Radio+4+Dramatisation

youtube recommended this video for me, and it's some German (I think, I didn't listen to more than a moment or so) production of Les Mis with dancing guards in the prologue, and it doesn't look like it's supposed to be a parody. How can I not share that?

(Although having watched a little more now, I actually do like the very beginning of the prologue . . . so this looks to be a production with hit and misses.)