Who Has Watched Any Silent Movies?
I know a lot of members love to collect films from the silent period but how many of you have actually watched any silent films? Before I comment on this topic I would love to hear from others on this subject.
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I do! I do! Well what I can get my hands on.
Seen all the biggy germans, Caligari I adore...can't get enough.
I find the hardest thing is getting your hands on them!
It was amazing to me the first time I saw Metropolis how much of BLADERUNNER I saw in there!
Film goers of today have no idea what they are missing out on. My sister won't watch anything black and white let alone silent!
Most people are surprised to learn many of the films they love now are actually poorly made re-makes...ah the youth of today!
The one I keep watching over and over is The unknown. It just blew me away the first time I saw it. Incredibly strong film, kick ass Chaney performance, everything is perfect in this one.
Hopefully a lot of you saw the 2011 The Artist. What a marvellous film and to sucessfully pull off a silent movie in this day and age was something else. It was nominated for 10 Oscars and won 5 including best film.
I ran a film society almost single handed except project the films and after the first season I was able to book all the films. I booked a fair amount of silent films including Nosferatu, The Black Pirate,Battleship Potemkin, The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari, Cops ( Buster Keaton short) & The Battle Of Elderbush Gulch ( D. W. Griffith short ). All were silent without any music added so we had to pay music to accompany the film that was left in the hands of the projectionist. Sometimes it worked in the case of Caligari and sometimes it failed as in the case of Battleship Potemkin.
I actually viewed The Birth Of A Nation at a screening in Canberra, A.C.T. with the film being screened completely silent for the 3 hour duruation. Surprisingly the viewing was enjoyable even though one sat in silence for three hours. I also viewed The General silent as well at a friend's house.
The Big Parade ( music & sound effects re-release print ) at the film society.
Battleship Potemkin I saw for a second time at the cinema as a support to Citizen Kane and with Battleship Potempkin having a great musical scored soundtrack and it was if I was seeing a completely different film and I enjoyed it immensely.
Viewed The Kid at the cinema along with countless shorts he made.
Viewed Broken Blossoms on the ABC television many years ago.
My favourite by far has to be Calagari that Ves adores.
TCM shows silent movies from time to time including The Cameraman and a few Garbo films.
Oh, will have to find a copy of The Unknown, Matias. Sounds wonderful.
Love The General, we got to see this with hubby(poor thing was not looking forward to it) at the Astor many years ago. Keating is pure genius! I forgot about the Laurel and Hardy films...seen many many many of those.
The ABC had Birth of a Nation on late night a while ago. I recorded and watched later. Sheesh! Looking at it in the context of where we are today, you can see how such things could be so inflammatory and divisive.
Ari speaks very highly of Battleship Potemkin, but have never seen it myself. I find if you want to watch em, you have to seek em out and buy them...might be time to do a little shopping! Do they even make DVD's anymore
HA! And some are even better with the sound and picture off!https://thepiratebay.gd/torrent/10574512/the.UNKNOWN.1927.HQTV.720p.x264.AC3.%5BFrOnkY%5D
!930 still had a cinema in a Newcastle, NSW suburb screening silent films and silent films were still being screened in 1931in a South Australia country area.