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One evening when Goldwyn and his wife Frances were having dinner with Heifetz and his wife, silent screen star Florence Vidor, Goldwyn proposed that Heifetz star in a movie.
Harry Langdon's "Saturday Afternoon" is often ranked among the greatest silent comedies, at least where short subjects are concerned, and therefore may come as a bit of a letdown for some.
Simone Renant, on the contrary, makes a great femme fatale, if a bit silent.
The silent film masterpiece Battleship Potemkin (1925) was commissioned by the Soviet government to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the uprising of 1905 and to establish the event as an heroic foreshadowing of the October Revolution of 1917.
It has to be admitted that the best work of Harold Lloyd ended with his last great silent comedy "Speedy" in 1928.
One of the best silent films I have ever seen.
Early on there is the nice scene with an explosion that resembles a scene at the end of "Saving Private Ryan," the silent scene that was used so effectively in reflecting one consequence of violence.
His hero, neurotic and silent, is an enigmatic person, ready for everything only to save the life of his lover.
A beautiful film about the coming of early silent cinema to China.
Especially on the silent scenes.
The audience at the end of the screening was very silent and pensive.
This second appearance of Mickey Mouse (following the silent PLANE CRAZY earlier that year) is probably his most famous film--mostly because it was so ground-breaking.
La Antena, an audacious film by Argentine director Esteban Sapir, succeeds both as a reinvention of the silent movie genre and a gripping cautionary tale.
Garbo is as mysterious and charismatic as she was in her silent films, and her entrance is still classic.
Seeing the two different edits is an education in how silent films could be changed effectively for release in different countries.
A recent re-issue of the French crime film (original title 'Du Rififi Chez les Hommes'), with its famous 20-minute silent jewel heist sequence, now comes in the US in a gorgeous new print from The Criterion Collection with improved subtitles and some extras.
This film is a good start for novices that have never watched a 'Silent Film' and for those who believe that quality Cinema started with their generations efforts.
Superb silent version of the story of Francois Villon.
Yes, there had been a little bit of sound and speaking inserted into his previous film, MODERN TIMES, but it was still essentially a silent film.
WHENEVER an idea was successful during those "Golden Days" of the Silent Movies, you could bet your bottom dollar that it would be repeated; although "Reworking" is the term that is used.
I picked up quickly that the book fans weren't at all happy with the unfaithfulness, not wanting to be hypocritical (I hate the Harry Potter movies due to lack of book loyalty)i stayed silent.
A remake of the 1916 silent film, based on the 1909 novel by Maurice Leblanc.
John Ford's stock of character actors, including Harry Carey, Jr., Jane Darwell, Russell Simpson and Hank Worden, provide ample support, as does eerily silent James Arness, a member of the outlaw Clegg clan that joins up with the wagon train.
"Plane Crazy" was released May 15th 1928 in Hollywood California,in the silent movie format.
"Steamboat Willy" was released November 18th 1928 as a SOUND movie (it was also released July 29th 1928 as a silent film).
I went to see this movie at our college theater thirty years ago because I liked Bruce Dern in Silent Running and Family Plot.
I'm glad Maddin has an appreciation for silent film, but I dislike his films for the same reason I dislike the films of Quentin Tarantino: they're empty homages to better, more imaginative films--films that advanced the art form or broke new ground--and are all style and no substance.
In this paranoia-driven potboiler, our reporter hero battles hindersome authorities, duplicitous co-workers, renegade UFO debunkers, and silent, skulking aliens.
I am one of the biggest fans of silent comedians and have probably reviewed more Buster Keaton films for IMDb than any other person.
That film is "The General", unrelated to the 1926 silent film of the same name.
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