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Post by Popeye Doyle on Jul 7, 2021 5:26:18 GMT
Yes. I find them fascinating in seeing the early cinema techniques (not much camera movement in these days). I really dig the music that often accompanies them as well. Can definitely understand the lack of appeal to modern audiences, though.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jul 7, 2021 7:09:00 GMT
HUGE Silent fan. It was true art to drive the plot of a movie without dialogue. And they knew how to have stunning endings. Greed, Pandora's Box, City Lights. Epic scenes, the aerial combat in Wings, the Babylon scenes in Intolerance, The Odessa Steps in Battleship Potemkin, the snowball fight in Napoleon. Ever been a more amazing performance than Maria Falconetti in Passion of Jeanne d'Arc? Just a damned shame that so many are lost forever.
My Top 5
1. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
2. Greed
3. La Roue (The Wheel)
4. City Lights
5. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
A very good doc about European silents. I found a lot of good ones, La Roue, White Hell of Pitz Palu,
Made by film historian Kevin Brownlow and great narration by Kenneth Branagh
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Post by mgmarshall on Jul 7, 2021 7:14:34 GMT
Yes, I do.
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Post by mstreepsucks on Jul 7, 2021 7:27:23 GMT
No, too old for me. I wouldn't understand it.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jul 7, 2021 7:51:40 GMT
When you think about it, cinema, even with the handicap of no dialogue, came a long very very fast. In 27 years, from a 2.5 second film of a man walking in garden to epics like Cabiria and ground shaking films like Birth of a Nation. Took thousands of years from a caveman painting a wall to Monet and a guy whapping a stick on a rock to Mozart.
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Post by phantomparticle on Jul 7, 2021 8:14:17 GMT
Yes. The power of their visual images can still grip us 100 years later.
Lillian Gish trapped on an ice floe in Way Down East.
Lon Chaney unmasked in Phantom of the Opera
Chaplin racing across the roof tops to reclaim his "son" from welfare authorities in The Kid
Creation of the Maria Robot in Metropolis
Buster Keaton and the falling wall in Steamboat, Jr.
It has been estimated that between 80-90% of silent films are lost because of nitrate decomposition and the studios destroying their negatives to retrieve the silver content after the movie was pulled from circulation.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jul 7, 2021 9:54:12 GMT
Yes. The power of their visual images can still grip us 100 years later. Lillian Gish trapped on an ice floe in Way Down East. Lon Chaney unmasked in Phantom of the Opera Chaplin racing across the roof tops to reclaim his "son" from welfare authorities in The Kid Creation of the Maria Robot in Metropolis Buster Keaton and the falling wall in Steamboat, Jr. It has been estimated that between 80-90% of silent films are lost because of nitrate decomposition and the studios destroying their negatives to retrieve the silver content after the movie was pulled from circulation. Good Choices. Lobe Buster Keaton. My favorite is him sitting on he connecting rod and the train pulls away in The General. Dangerous
Many seeming "lost" Silents turn up, so there's always hope. Wings and Passion of Jeanne d'Arc were thought to be lost.I have two I'd give my right arm to see
THE MIRACLE MAN (1919) a group of crooks hide out with a faith healer called The Patriarch. The crooks (Lon Chaney Sr. is one) thinks the Patriarch a phony a phony so they stage a fake healing. But the find out The Patriarch is real and he begins to change them. One clip survives and its a doozy.
THE PATRIOT (1928) Not the Mel Gibson one. Emil Jannings as "Mad Tsar" Paul I. I'm a nut who has seen every Best Pic nominee except three and a couple recents that I haven't got to yet. Two, East Lynne and The White Parade are in the UCLA film library and can be seen. The Patriot cannot.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jul 7, 2021 10:00:40 GMT
Yes i like silent films, but i don`t watch silent movie often. I have to be in the mood for it.
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Post by politicidal on Jul 7, 2021 12:59:18 GMT
I don’t usually seek them out. But there are a few which I really enjoyed such as The General, The Lost World, and Faust. Wasn’t a fan of Nosferatu much at all.
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Post by vegalyra on Jul 7, 2021 13:00:55 GMT
Yes, although I haven’t seen that many of them. Mostly just the real famous ones like Nosferatu, Birth of a Nation, Wings, Metropolis, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, etc. I find the early sci fi, horror, and war films to be pretty effective without sound. Wings and the Big Parade are probably two of my favorites.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jul 7, 2021 16:38:20 GMT
I want to but I can't.
The dialogue cards are a barrier. Just as well ditch those for me.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Jul 7, 2021 16:41:06 GMT
I like them so much that I often mute the sound on current movies just so that I can pretend they are silent!
Kidding aside, yes, I like silent movies. To the many already mentioned here, I will add the hilarious Harold Lloyd comedies.
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Post by mcclance on Jul 7, 2021 21:17:49 GMT
I love silent movies. I have a growing collection of them. Just last year, I bought six Douglas Fairbanks films, two Charlie Chaplin films, and Toll of the Sea/Shifting Sands.
They are a different viewing experience and a glimpse into a different era, both in terms of film-making and setting. One must pay closer attention to silent films than talkies, and I find it's sometimes up to the viewer to interpret what's going on on-screen.
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Post by drystyx on Jul 8, 2021 2:37:57 GMT
Some are exceptional. THE KING OF KINGS and THE MANXMAN are classics.
Most are a bit tedious to me, because I like to hear various noises and voices instead of music. Even when I listen to music, I can't stand to hear the same band for more than a couple of songs, unless the band is like The Beatles and each song has different beats, styles, and rhythms. Few bands actually have variety in their output.
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Post by brandomarlon2003 on Jul 8, 2021 2:41:11 GMT
I like some of them. Definitely enjoy the silent films directed by Fritz Lang and F.W. Murnau. I have wanted to see some of the silent films of Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd but have yet to watch them.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 8, 2021 2:41:48 GMT
Shhhh!
Yes.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jul 8, 2021 6:57:30 GMT
Not really my thing. But I have respect for art that pioneered cinema.
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Jul 9, 2021 9:09:46 GMT
As a lover of history, I find them interesting from a historical perspective. I've only seen a few (Nosferatu, Metropolis and some others) but enjoyed them in their own way. Very different to watching "talkies", however, and I would consider them to be a unique viewing experience outside the realm of ordinary movie-watching.
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Post by mortsahlfan on Jul 9, 2021 15:47:32 GMT
I, too, like to watch them from a historical perspective. However, I've only liked a couple, and they are not the popular ones.
TCM will occasionally have silent sprees, or play a classic from time to time. I saw one recently about a young woman who needs shoes for work, the only one who works for her family, who's father drinks it up, and by the end, she goes into prostitution. It was made in 1915 I think.
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Post by teleadm on Jul 9, 2021 17:03:28 GMT
Since I was fascinated by Horror film books in my youth, many offcourse I haven't seen, but some I've catching up with, and there were many from the silent era. Last October challange (didn't participate but was inspired) I catched up with German Wegener's Golem and Chaney's Hunchback of Notre Dame 1923, at last.
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