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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Oct 2, 2006 0:04:16 GMT -5
I love them.
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Post by THE Dinobot on Oct 2, 2006 0:04:38 GMT -5
Me too.
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Post by Triple Kelly on Oct 2, 2006 0:09:48 GMT -5
I do as well. Can't get enough of Lon Chaney, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd. And I even named my car after Mabel Normand. I know I'm a hopeless case.
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Post by dorf on Oct 2, 2006 0:17:44 GMT -5
Charlie Chapman is the man! Also some 3 Stooges stuff were silent and hilarious.
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Post by grapejellydoesit on Oct 2, 2006 0:24:19 GMT -5
I'm a huge fan of Rudolph Valentino in The Shiek. It was my first silent film.
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Post by The Line on Oct 2, 2006 0:25:31 GMT -5
This year I think I am going to make a silent western film.
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Post by teknoteam2000 on Oct 2, 2006 0:39:44 GMT -5
I love the more avant garde European silents such as the German expressionist works like Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Metropolis, Nosferatu, Der Golem, Pandora's Box as well as stuff like Haxan, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Battleship Potempkin and the like. For those who enjoy the esthetics of silent films should check out Guy Maddin who makes films in the method of silent films and early sound films.
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Post by The Happnin' Mojo on Oct 2, 2006 0:57:52 GMT -5
I love the more avant garde European silents such as the German expressionist works like Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Metropolis, Nosferatu, Der Golem, Pandora's Box as well as stuff like Haxan, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Battleship Potempkin and the like. For those who enjoy the esthetics of silent films should check out Guy Maddin who makes films in the method of silent films and early sound films. I like nearly all those you mention but my fave is probably Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast.....it's incredible.
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The Raven
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Post by The Raven on Oct 2, 2006 1:17:06 GMT -5
Buster Keaton and Charle Chapman are my favorite silent films stars.
Silent films are timeless.
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Post by Scott on Oct 2, 2006 1:18:18 GMT -5
I'm giving another vote for Metropolis, Nosferatu, and Battleship Potemkin
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Post by mcclanahan on Oct 2, 2006 1:19:51 GMT -5
Nosferatu and Phantom of the Opera (both originals, the remakes of each sucked) are two of my favorite movies, need I say more
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The Raven
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Post by The Raven on Oct 2, 2006 1:21:33 GMT -5
Nosferatu is so damn creepy.
I think the silentness add to that effect.
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Post by Doomrider on Oct 2, 2006 1:25:10 GMT -5
Der Golem was my first silent film...great stuff.
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Post by teknoteam2000 on Oct 2, 2006 1:48:37 GMT -5
I love the more avant garde European silents such as the German expressionist works like Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Metropolis, Nosferatu, Der Golem, Pandora's Box as well as stuff like Haxan, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Battleship Potempkin and the like. For those who enjoy the esthetics of silent films should check out Guy Maddin who makes films in the method of silent films and early sound films. I like nearly all those you mention but my fave is probably Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast.....it's incredible. Cocteau's Orphic trilogy is great specifically Blood of A Poet. Anyone a fan of the old dada/surrealist shorts like Luis Bunuel's early work, the works of Man Ray, Viking Eggeling, Rene Clair, Joris Ivens, Walter Ruttman? p.s. another good visual film from the silent era was Dziga Vertov's The Man With A Movie Camera.
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Post by DSR on Oct 2, 2006 2:54:10 GMT -5
I watched Tod Browning's silent classic The Unknown earlier tonight on TCM. Damn good stuff. Lon Chaney Sr. was awesome.
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Post by teknoteam2000 on Oct 2, 2006 2:57:32 GMT -5
I watched Tod Browning's silent classic The Unknown earlier tonight on TCM. Damn good stuff. Lon Chaney Sr. was awesome. It's a shame Tod Browning's London After Midnight is lost. Lon Chaney looked so creepy in it.
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Post by DSR on Oct 2, 2006 2:59:08 GMT -5
I watched Tod Browning's silent classic The Unknown earlier tonight on TCM. Damn good stuff. Lon Chaney Sr. was awesome. It's a shame Tod Browning's London After Midnight is lost. Lon Chaney looked so creepy in it. I hope a complete print of this film is found somewhere. I also saw the version created from production stills tonight. It just made me wish to see the actual movie.
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Post by teknoteam2000 on Oct 2, 2006 3:03:57 GMT -5
It's a shame Tod Browning's London After Midnight is lost. Lon Chaney looked so creepy in it. I hope a complete print of this film is found somewhere. I also saw the version created from production stills tonight. It just made me wish to see the actual movie. Sometimes they turn up. Carl Theodor Dreyer's brilliant silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc was lost for a long time after a fire. Out of no where it was discovered in good condition in a Norweigan mental hospital over 50 years after its release.
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Post by REDUNBECK~! on Oct 2, 2006 5:21:50 GMT -5
Charlie CHAPLIN, people. CHAPLIN.
Anyway, I love the silents too. The best I've ever seen is far and away The Passion of Joan of Arc. The acting is so amazing, especially the lead actress, Renee Falconetti. Her body language says so much.
For lighthearted stuff the aforementioned Chaplin and Buster Keaton are always good, though it seems guys like Fatty Arbuckle and W.C. Fields don't always get the attention they deserve. They made some really fantastic silent comedies as well. I suppose Chaplin and Keaton are more readily accessible (Fields DVDs don't seem to pop up very often, and I'm not sure that Fatty is on DVD at all. Which is a shame.)
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Post by Baixo Astral on Oct 2, 2006 7:53:17 GMT -5
You beat me to it... Charlie CHAPMAN? What the hell?!
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