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The attitude expressed through this brutal treatment pretty much summed up mid-century Hollywood's view of its early days: silent cinema was considered hokey, florid, a little embarrassing, and only good for a chuckle.
James Agee's famous 1949 essay on the silent clowns for Life Magazine was a factor, but television played a major role in reacquainting viewers with silent movies.
This film, unlike many of his silent works, is about the heroic individual as much as it is about the group.
The version I viewed was very well restored, which is sometimes a problem with these silent era animated films.
A must for any silent film or animation enthusiast.
Eisenstien's "Potempkin", (Bronenosets Potyomkin), is among the finest films ever made and possibly the best of the silent era.
Yes, Chaplin, the silent screen master, just uses too many words in this film, and his tendency towards writing long speeches and extraneous passages of dialogue would carry over into his other talkie films, such as (better) "Limelight".
The Battleship Potemkin is now the oldest film I've seen and it is also the first silent film I've seen.
For those who appreciate the intersection of silent cinema and social commentary, this is a unique film.
Park manages to give us everything we need from this silent character through his expression.
It's a well done parody of what became a classic silent film and it showcases Stan's talents very well.
While the characters are silent, they do "speak", by use of word balloons, just like in the comics.
The rest of the crowd booed or was silent.
One of the best silent dramas I've seen.
One of the most entertaining of all silent comedies is Pudovkin's short 'Chess Fever', a mad tale of how a rigorously intellectual board game could disrupt even the most carefully planned central economies.
William Wellmann, who directed one of the most exciting silent films ever made, 'Wings' (1927), here returns to the skies with another rip-roaring story of dare-devil fliers.
And there is a good strong story, excellently played by the sombre Richard Barthelmess (the silent star who made several films with D. W. Griffith), Sally Eilers and Tom Brown.
I want to point out also the music, very good soundtrack, the movie needs it because of its long silent pause and they are covered perfectly by that music.
While many silent film scores work very well with their scenes, I feel that this is the best score I've come across.
For years I have avoided many of Harold Lloyd's sound pictures (as well as those of Keaton) because they have a generally well-deserved reputation for being lousy compared to the silent films because the basic formula has been lost.
This is a cute little French silent comedy about a man who bets another that he can't stay in this castle for one hour due to its being haunted.
Wallace is still the cheese-loving freak like he always was and Gromit is the silent newspaper reading dog.
Victor Sjostrom's silent film masterpiece The Phantom Carriage has recently been released on DVD with a new soundtrack recorded by KTL.
I have really nothing to add to all the other comments, save this: To me the film looked like a silent film slowly being adapted to sound.
Along the way the actors were allowed to leave the stilted, theatre-like acting; Marguerite Churchill very much looks like a typical early silent movie heroine at the beginning of the film, but at the end is allowed finer expressions.
Chrisopher Walken stars and is very good as the silent rogue with a scam bigger than he's letting on.
"Angora Love" is Stan Laurel's and Oliver Hardy's last silent movie.
He does well though and has many silent moments where Dagmar is cavorting and he has to show a mixture of love and hate.
I found myself waiting tensely for the whole house of cards to come collapsing down around him (and by extension myself, as his confidante and silent witness).
This was Laurel and Hardy's last silent film for Roach Studios.
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