Silent Movies

[Reno]

^^^Both are amazing and I especially love The Wind, which is still really thrilling and intense to watch.

 

[Louloubelle]

^^^Both are amazing and I especially love The Wind, which is still really thrilling and intense to watch.

Thrilling is just the word

I love her hands, they are so delicate and beautiful like the hands of an angel and when you see her act, her hands communicate so much

Like in this scene



Looks like you can see both Broken Blossoms and The Wind in segments on youtube, although this would be a shame to watch such great films in this way IMO

 

[Louloubelle]

Also highly recommended are
Der Golem and Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (both 1920) and Nosferatu (1922)

all absolutely great films IMO

 

[lobster]

Maya Deren made some interesting experimental silent films.

Tuvalu is a recent almost silent film which I highly recommend.

sorry, i could not resist posting some captures

 

[Louloubelle]

Ooh

I was watching The Divine Horsemen only last night

Not seen Tuvalu though, it's now on my "to watch" list

eta

just realised that your maya deren recommendation is nothing to do with Tuvalu, oh well looks interesting anyway

 

[d.a.s.h]

Saw Eistenstein's Strike a few months ago with a new score performed live by about a dozen musicians. It worked out pretty well. Is Man with a Movie Camera silent or not? Wouldn't mind seeing that.

 

[Reno]

Saw Eistenstein's Strike a few months ago with a new score performed live by about a dozen musicians. It worked out pretty well. Is Man with a Movie Camera silent or not? Wouldn't mind seeing that.

It's silent and an interesting example of early avant garde cinema. Well worth seeing.

 

[Dhimmi]

Did the Marx do silents?

Only Harpo No the Marx Brothers only did talkies.

Buster Keaton is my fave for silents, Laurel and Hardy are good, but better as talkies really. Not found any Keystone Cops on DVD yet, have got a big Chaplin boxset though. Not the same comedic category really but like Formby movies too, which are some of the earliest Ealing comdies still available.

 

[Dhimmi]

really?? i havent seen it in like a year since film school, i could have sworn it was silent, well i retract that statement haha sorry. regardless still an amazing flick for the time period.

It's a very early talkie, so a lot of the action is very much in the style of a silent, perhaps that explains the confusion?

Some erudite and handsome soul reviewed it for the U75 film review page...
http://urbanfilmreview.blogspot.com/2006/07/m-1931.html

 

[nightowl]

such a shame that hardly any silent films (and very few early talkies as well) make it on to telly these days. you'd think at least that channels like bbc3 or 4 could stick them on occasionally

 

[Louloubelle]

ooh
and of course

 

[Groucho]

ooh
and of course

A masterpiece

 

[nightowl]

ooh
and of course

jesus that must have well and truly freaked people out back then

 

[Groucho]

jesus that must have well and truly freaked people out back then

It was banned

 

[Reno]

such a shame that hardly any silent films (and very few early talkies as well) make it on to telly these days. you'd think at least that channels like bbc3 or 4 could stick them on occasionally

BBC2 and Channel4 had fantastic film seasons in the 80's, including a silent movie one. Before that classic films were prime time viewing. Now only relatively new films get shown and I think and appreciation for any films pre-70's is completely going lost.

 

[nightowl]

BBC2 and Channel4 had fantastic film seasons in the 80's, including a silent movie one. Before that classic films were prime time viewing. Now only relatively new films get shown and I think and appreciation for any films pre-70's is completely going lost.

i remember coming home after school and watching all the old harold lloyd stuff in the early evenings on bbc 2. i wonder why they don't stick anything on. they don't exactly have much to lose in terms of ratings on some of their freeview channels for example

 

[albionism]

Pandora's Box is a stunning film. I love Louise Brooks..

"I have a gift for enraging people, but if i ever bore you it will be with a knife"

 

[belboid]

Also highly recommended are
Der Golem and Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (both 1920) and Nosferatu (1922)

all absolutely great films IMO

great call, include anything from the great FW Murnau (Letze Mann, Faust) or from the early Fritz Langs (Dr Mabuse), not to mention...the Russians!

No mention of the atheists god, Eisenstein, or Kuleshov??!! Everything they did was sheer genius.

 

[albionism]

Sunrise

Utter gorgeousness