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 Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 9:20 pm
On Sunday nights (unless they pre-empt it for something else), at midnight or a little after (if a movie runs over), TCM shows a silent movie every week. If you get this channel on cable, discuss the week's offering here! smile
July 19, 2009:
---"Broken Blossoms" (1919) D.W. Griffith
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Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 5:05 am
I caught most of that one but actually wasn't crazy about it. I know it was a different era and all, but the casual racism grated on me.
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Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 11:27 pm
Well, D.W. Griffith was himself enormously racist.
You ever seen Birth of a Nation? The KKK were HEROES saving the South from the horrible "darkies" xp evil Some CLASSIC.
So I wasn't a bit surprised when he never even bothered to name the Chinese man who came to London, nor that this pious Buddist monk would so easily fall into opium and gambling. rolleyes
And on top of all that, it's just really depressing and tragic and has a super-downer ending.
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Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 10:43 am
TCM in the UK is not scheduled like this D:!
I'm jealous sad .
We're lucky if we get a early-morning comedy every now and again.
(- and I couldn't quite stomach Broken Blossoms either)
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 6:20 pm
I missed the 25th because I was out of town visiting my parents, who don't get TCM.
And I missed the 2nd by sleeping through it--I was pretty tired after the long drive home. sad
However, TCM showed another silent at 6am on Monday!
It's "The Red Mill"--don't know the year. It's MGM, though.
It's set in Holland, and has a lot of comedy--not slapstick, just some chuckles along the way.
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 3:34 pm
After a long absence in August, Silent Sundays have returned. I didn't see last week or the week before--getting hard to sit up so late when I have Monday morning classes--but last night I saw part of the 1927 "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
It cost $2 million to make and had some cool visual effects.
Yeah, a lot of the content DID make you want to go beat your head on a wall, but it was interesting to see how they were solving a lot of no-sound problems, including animating a dialog screen to evoke an old lady's shrill, annoying screech demanding Topsy come to her.
The scene at Little Eva's death had an ephemeral angel that was filmed into the scene to appear ghostly-translucent, picking up Little Eva's soul & carrying her away to Heaven on beams of radiance from above.
The actor playing Simon LeGree the evil plantation owner had a really excellently demonic face about him.
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 6:05 pm
On Sunday Sept. 20th, the 1924 MGM silent "Wild Oranges", directed by King Vidor, aired. It was unusual and interesting.
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Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 10:04 am
October 11th: Two weird Lon Chaney silents.
The Unknown (1927) Lon as a (supposedly) armless knife-thrower in a gypsy circus in Spain. He's really an escaped killer. Fun!
Unholy Three (1925) Lon masquerades as an old lady to front a crime ring. One of the other gang members is a midget masquerading as a toddler in the family.
Next Sunday (Oct. 18th): Lon Chaney in PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1925)!
Sunday Oct. 25th: NOSFERATU (1922)!
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