Silent Films
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
has anyone seen Man With A Movie Camera?
Reno
The In Kraut
Yes, though not since art school. It sure is experimental.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
i saw this are university:
i think it was silent, but i was too distracted by the shocked gasps of my fellow (mostly conservative) mature students
i think it was silent, but i was too distracted by the shocked gasps of my fellow (mostly conservative) mature students
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
The Motion Picture Production Code was certainly a censorious and retrograde move in American cinema, a triumph of backward-looking morality over the realities of the time, IMHO.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
It has no dialogue, but does it count as silent?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
ha! i was just reading about that today:
http://www.listsofnote.com/2012/02/donts-and-be-carefuls.html
http://www.listsofnote.com/2012/02/donts-and-be-carefuls.html
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
There's the proper Frence silents like Epstein's Coeur Fidele, and of course Gance's Napoleon.
MellySingsDoom
Decimated by the shrapnel of his rhetoric
Reno - some good silent film choices there. Have you seen the version of "Haxan: Witchcraft Through The Ages" narrated by William Burroughs? It's certainly interesting as a "period" piece (the Burroughs version was put together in the mid 60's by - I think, offhand - Antony Balch), but Burroughs' script does veer towards misogyny at times, it has to be said...
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
my friend has a copy of that - been meaning to watch it
Reno
The In Kraut
I haven't seen the Burrouhgs narrated version. I last saw the original when I still lived in Germany. Great film.
MellySingsDoom
Decimated by the shrapnel of his rhetoric
Agree w/you on "Haxan". The Burroughs-narrated version can currently be found here, if you're interested in checking it out:
MellySingsDoom
Decimated by the shrapnel of his rhetoric
2hats
Dust.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
i saw it in my first term at university and thought the rest of the course would be as inflammatory as that. i was wrong.Wow, I really enjoyed that - have been wanting to see that for ages. Thanks, OU!
eoin_k
Lawyer's fees, beetroot and music
Why shouldn't it? I enjoyed Modern Times much more than I was expecting to, unlike The Great Dictator which was both a talkie and a bit more crude.
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
Well, because it was made in the talkie era, and it isn't silent. It has no dialogue, but it has synchronised sound.
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
I hadn't ruled it out! I was just asking whether it should qualify. Same reasons as the Jean Genet, really. But maybe the consensus is that they should both be in?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
The Artist isn't totally silent is it? it has music and a tiny bit of dialogue I think (or so I've read)
Has anyone seen Mel Brooks' Silent Movie?
Has anyone seen Mel Brooks' Silent Movie?
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
I haven't seen it. But my understanding is that it does have sound, and synchronised sound at that. (Rather than Mavis Beauchamps in the pit on the Wurlitzer).
Reno
The In Kraut
The Artist is a tribute to silent films and the sound effects and one line of dialogue are there for a couple of gags that play on the arrival of the "talkies". All silent movies had live music in their day and some like William Wellman's Wings even had live sound effects. it would be rather cost prhibitive to have a live orchestra for avery screening of The Artist.
I saw Silent Movie when it came out. I didn't like it much, but haven't seen it since.
The Barbican does regular silent movie seasons with live music especially composed for the event and that's the best way of seeing a silent film. You get both a film and a live music gig. The BFI also does occasionally shows silent movies with live music. I saw the excellent Beggars of Live there last year, with music by Mark Kermode's bluegrass band.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Blood and Sand
Metropolis
Metropolis
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
I know it has been mentioned by Nosferatu is still a total major favorited of mine
None of that "glittery" vampire shite.
pianissimo
a gradient of grey
Another one for Metropolis, especially to watch it in theater with live orchestral music.
kittyP
Pluviophile
None of that "glittery" vampire shite.
I went to see it at The Prince Charles cinema and they had live music!
It was amazing!!!
eoin_k
Lawyer's fees, beetroot and music
I was disappointed by Metropolis, Nosferatu and Battleship Potempkin. I wanted to enjoy them but if I'm honest they all left me cold. Since Modern Times is a border line case all I'm left with is a set of shorts by Man Ray which I picked up at the Tate when the the Dada exhibition was on. They aren't feature films, but playful little shorts. Reno's recommendations seem intriguing.
