Silent movies are awesome

after a nice night of semi-partying whatever, i awoke early (my girlfriend still passed out) with nothing to do until work.....

Ive watched The hunchback of Notre Dame, and now watching the Phantom of the Opera with Lon Cheney.....and i just ordered Metropolis, M, and The Crowd from netflix.....goodness cannot wait.

silent movies are the shit....i think its because of the classical/piano soundtracks.

I was at an arty party and they projected silent slapstick films onto a screen in the backyard and a guy who is really good at improvising on the piano had to do the score (although he hadn't seen the films and had to react to what he was seeing). It was great way to entertain a crowd and it's a shame that there isn't really a modern/contemporary equivalent to this.

it really is the ultimate audio visual thrill.

on a geeky note, for a minute i was thinking that the layout of silent movies are a perfect motif for the modern RPG games...the cuts, the mass movement, the prompting.....its amazing stuff.

  Betty said:

it's a shame that there isn't really a modern/contemporary equivalent to this.

maybe something like, someone rocking out to a lemur midi controller with david letterman on mute..

  pigster said:

  Betty said:

it's a shame that there isn't really a modern/contemporary equivalent to this.

 

maybe something like, someone rocking out to a lemur midi controller with david letterman on mute..

I would feel sorry for Paul Shaffer an the CBS orchestra.

  Betty said:

  pigster said:

  Betty said:

it's a shame that there isn't really a modern/contemporary equivalent to this.

 

maybe something like, someone rocking out to a lemur midi controller with david letterman on mute..

 

I would feel sorry for Paul Shaffer an the CBS orchestra.

Meshes of an Afternoon- by Maya Deren

anything by Charlie Chaplin.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

http://www.archive.org/details/DasKabinett...netofDrCaligari

  Dreddy Schwager said:

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

http://www.archive.org/details/DasKabinett...netofDrCaligari

yeah that's wicked.

Fritz lang is my favorite director. I always loved M, because it was like the silent film aesthetic, but using sound. So the two mediums overlapped to create something entirely unique. The scenes where the audio completely drops out are breathtaking.

Sang d'un poète, Le (1930)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021331/

I enjoyed le million

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022150/

Great views of early paris or what it must have been like

checking out Cabinet now...thanks for the recs lads.

Buster Keaton, yo.

un chien andalou

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_chien_andalou

l'age d'or

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27%C3%82ge_d%27or