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 Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 5:55 pm
Well it speaks for itself, doesn't it?
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What's your favourite silent film and why?
Can't pick one? Then top 3, top 5...
Go crazy.
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Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 9:20 pm
I must have watched Keaton's "The General" at least 700 times when I was 3... but I loved the shorts, like "One Week" and "Paleface".
But I also liked the early works of Roscoe Arbuckle and Harold Loyd, as well.
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Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 9:43 pm
0kamisama I must have watched Keaton's "The General" at least 700 times when I was 3... but I loved the shorts, like "One Week" and "Paleface". But I also liked the early works of Roscoe Arbuckle and Harold Loyd, as well. One week made me laugh more than any other silent I've seen, I think.
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Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 9:45 pm
I can't follow my own guidelines.
I've narrowed this to seven essentials:
The Man Who Laughs
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
The Unknown
He Who Gets Slapped
Seventh Heaven
The Wind
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:31 am
It was hard to narrow this down! Here are mine:
Diary Of A Lost Girl
Metropolis
Modern Times
A Trip To The Moon
The Navigator
Never Weaken (It's only a short, but I can't get enough of it!)
It's A Bird
Nosferatu
I really recommend It's A Bird, Charles Bowers is a horribly under-appreciated pioneer in stop motion. And of course Metropolis and A Trip To The Moon are essentials!
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 7:57 am
The Eyebright Bugler It was hard to narrow this down! Here are mine: Diary Of A Lost Girl Metropolis Modern Times A Trip To The Moon The Navigator Never Weaken (It's only a short, but I can't get enough of it!) It's A Bird Nosferatu I really recommend It's A Bird, Charles Bowers is a horribly under-appreciated pioneer in stop motion. And of course Metropolis and A Trip To The Moon are essentials!
I've seen fair share of Keaton films but not The Navigator yet and I've got Diary Of A Lost Girl but I still haven't watched it! (I actually forgot I had it - you just reminded me)
I'd never even heard of It's A Bird until now. I just watched a clip on youtube. It was amazing. Seriously it just baffled me!
eek
The other five though, I've seen. Some undisputable classics.
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:14 pm
Like I said in my "introduction" I don't have much access to any silents. But my dad bought me The Art of Buster Keaton for a gift so pretty much all of my silent favorites are Buster Keaton flicks.
So I guess I can narrow this down to 5
5) The Garage (short)
4) Our Hospitality
3) The Navigator
2) College
1) The General
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 8:54 pm
Pretty much anything by Buster Keaton from the silent era.
Earlier Charlie Chaplin from before he got so sentimental.
Harold Lloyd--his "climbing on buildings with one hand that only has a couple of good fingers" films (try to spot the glove with the fake fingers to conceal the blown off ones!).
That awesome French version of Beauty & the Beast--I haven't seen it in ages, but it's gorgeous.
Nosferatu--VERY creepy special effects, playing with time lapse photography & such.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari--downright surreal.
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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 4:01 am
XxCreature_of_the_NightxX Like I said in my "introduction" I don't have much access to any silents. But my dad bought me The Art of Buster Keaton for a gift so pretty much all of my silent favorites are Buster Keaton flicks.
So I guess I can narrow this down to 5
5) The Garage (short)
4) Our Hospitality
3) The Navigator
2) College
1) The General I've seen Our Hospitality, College and The General.
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My faves were One Week, College and Sherlock Jr.
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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 4:16 am
Eirwyn Pretty much anything by Buster Keaton from the silent era.
Earlier Charlie Chaplin from before he got so sentimental.
Harold Lloyd--his "climbing on buildings with one hand that only has a couple of good fingers" films (try to spot the glove with the fake fingers to conceal the blown off ones!).
That awesome French version of Beauty & the Beast--I haven't seen it in ages, but it's gorgeous.
Nosferatu--VERY creepy special effects, playing with time lapse photography & such.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari--downright surreal.
Nosferatu and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, classics of course.
And I heard about that, a finger and a thumb rolleyes ...:}
And when did he strart getting too sentimental for you?
BUT I love sentiment! I'M AN EMOTIONAL WRECK!! D:
:}
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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:56 pm
Metropolis (192 cool - I'm a huge sci-fi fan, so when I saw this for the first time (in the 2k restoration) it was love at first sight.
Girl Shy (1924) - At a screening I heard an entire audience go "Oh no!" at a key scene. Even if that hadn't happened, I find the plot of this Harold Lloyd feature more engaging than Safety Last!.
Sherlock Jr. (1924) - It's everything great about Buster Keaton distilled.
Among Those Present (1921) - My favorite Harold Lloyd short. It's not a daredevil short, but just a series of unfortunate events involving a lot of animals.
The "Teddy" Bears (1907) - This short, retelling of the Three Bears, has a little bit of everything, including a shocking climax that illustrates how in 1907 filmmakers didn't realize how audience identification worked.
Nosferatu (1922) - My "gateway drug" to silent film. Count Orloc is truly creepy.
Honorable mention:
It (1927) - Clara Bow is brassy and cute! She's totally my favorite silent era actress.
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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 5:28 am
Amuse Metropolis (192 cool - I'm a huge sci-fi fan, so when I saw this for the first time (in the 2k restoration) it was love at first sight.
Girl Shy (1924) - At a screening I heard an entire audience go "Oh no!" at a key scene. Even if that hadn't happened, I find the plot of this Harold Lloyd feature more engaging than Safety Last!.
Sherlock Jr. (1924) - It's everything great about Buster Keaton distilled.
Among Those Present (1921) - My favorite Harold Lloyd short. It's not a daredevil short, but just a series of unfortunate events involving a lot of animals.
The "Teddy" Bears (1907) - This short, retelling of the Three Bears, has a little bit of everything, including a shocking climax that illustrates how in 1907 filmmakers didn't realize how audience identification worked.
Nosferatu (1922) - My "gateway drug" to silent film. Count Orloc is truly creepy.
Honorable mention:
It (1927) - Clara Bow is brassy and cute! She's totally my favorite silent era actress. Just haven't seen Among Those Present and The "Teddy" Bears. Girl Shy's a sweet one. Ahh, we love a mad dash to the church :} - and It too! Clara Bow was great in that (and that film had really funny intertitles btw).
smile
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Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 5:10 pm
KimberleyJane Eirwyn Pretty much anything by Buster Keaton from the silent era.
Earlier Charlie Chaplin from before he got so sentimental.
Harold Lloyd--his "climbing on buildings with one hand that only has a couple of good fingers" films (try to spot the glove with the fake fingers to conceal the blown off ones!).
That awesome French version of Beauty & the Beast--I haven't seen it in ages, but it's gorgeous.
Nosferatu--VERY creepy special effects, playing with time lapse photography & such.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari--downright surreal.
Nosferatu and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, classics of course.
And I heard about that, a finger and a thumb rolleyes ...:}
And when did he strart getting too sentimental for you?
BUT I love sentiment! I'M AN EMOTIONAL WRECK!! D:
:}
There's one I especially like that has Charlie & Ben Turpin as a pair of drunks trying to get home. That was a real hoot.
You have to admit, Charlie was a tad more ornery & mischievous in the early short comedies, and like Buster he had an amazing genius for physical comedy. Give those two a prop, and you never knew what they were liable to do with it. lol And Buster was awesome at creating mechanical comedy.
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Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 1:42 pm
Eirwyn KimberleyJane Eirwyn Pretty much anything by Buster Keaton from the silent era.
Earlier Charlie Chaplin from before he got so sentimental.
Harold Lloyd--his "climbing on buildings with one hand that only has a couple of good fingers" films (try to spot the glove with the fake fingers to conceal the blown off ones!).
That awesome French version of Beauty & the Beast--I haven't seen it in ages, but it's gorgeous.
Nosferatu--VERY creepy special effects, playing with time lapse photography & such.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari--downright surreal.
Nosferatu and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, classics of course.
And I heard about that, a finger and a thumb rolleyes ...:}
And when did he strart getting too sentimental for you?
BUT I love sentiment! I'M AN EMOTIONAL WRECK!! D:
:}
There's one I especially like that has Charlie & Ben Turpin as a pair of drunks trying to get home. That was a real hoot.
You have to admit, Charlie was a tad more ornery & mischievous in the early short comedies, and like Buster he had an amazing genius for physical comedy. Give those two a prop, and you never knew what they were liable to do with it. lol And Buster was awesome at creating mechanical comedy.
Oh yeah, I do agree - but I still can't resist the pathos. That said I haven't seen any of the earlier ones in a forages (not so many comedies in general tbh). I remember, The Police through and The Idle Class and him making a damn convincing woman. I'm gonna go back to them.
But btw, you know the French Beauty & the Beast? Is this something early that I've not seen or the Cocteau one? If the former then I want to see it! If it's the Cocteau film you really mustn't have seen it in ages because it's not silent lol . I'm very sure because I do laughable impressions ('la beeeelle, la beeeelle') when inspiration takes up with me...inspiration being port :{.
JEAN MARAIS WAS NEVER ATTRACTIVE!!
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Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 7:05 pm
I still haven't really worked my way to watching silent pictures, but my favorite so far is City Lights with Charles Chaplin. I adore him as the little tramp character, and how far he goes just to please a poor blind girl really eats out my heart. The miming and everything is really awe inspiring to me in general, and there's never been a picture that got me crying harder, except for Random Harvest with Greer Garson.
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