She's been called "the great silent film actress of our time," despite never once having appeared in an actual silent film!
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"Wings" is a silent film set during World War I, starring Clara Bow, Charles Rogers, and Richard Arlen — it's the only silent film to ever win Best Picture.
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Del Río broke through in the world of silent film.
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There's a big one in Bologna every year, Il Cinema Ritrovato; a silent film festival in Pordenone, Italy, a small town north of Venice; and there's the San Francisco Silent Film Festival in May.
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Maschinenmensch (22004) The humanoid robot star of the silent film Metropolis.
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"Some of my biggest heroes were in silent film," Depp said.
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Rin Tin Tin, a silent film star, appeared in 27 movies.
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Polek's imagery, though, comes through like flashes in a silent film.
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He refers frequently to Gorey's love for silent film (which he identifies as one of a "pantheon of canonically gay tastes"), but his knowledge of silent film is as thin as his knowledge of ballet. (D.
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The names are of black silent film actors: Bledsoe, Paul Robeson, etc.
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The silent film era began in 1894 and continued through the 1920s.
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But except for some silent film, there's no record of the choreography.
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Though it is a silent film, you can almost hear Falconetti's heaving cries.
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It started financing Hollywood movies in the silent film era of the 1920s.
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It is estimated that 75 percent of silent film has been lost forever.
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Like most silent film music, Mr. Milhaud's jazz-inflected score has been lost.
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Rin Tin Tin was a silent film star that appeared in 27 movies.
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The 1925 silent-film version can be watched free, for now, on YouTube.
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She also appeared in a silent-film re-enactment of her 1901 stunt.
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It adapts the Edgar Allan Poe classic into a 13-minute silent film.
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"The Voice of the Voiceless," a debut silent film by the collective Bricolagista!
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More than 500 silent film reels that were thought gone could live again.
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It should be able to be told almost visually, like a silent film.
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In a shot straight out of a silent film, realization creeps across her face.
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She made Haze and Fog in 2013, a 46-minute silent film about zombies.
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"His music gives a silent film a complete new meaning," Mr. Mahrdt said. www.filmlinc.
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In Japan, a whole other performance tradition grew alongside silent film — one that continues today.
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Today he is known as one of the greatest actors of the silent film era.
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The 1930 promo was a silent film, complete with title cards and an orchestral score.
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As an actress, she commands something like the stylized expressions of silent-film-era sirens.
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"I am big," the delusional silent film star Norma Desmond insists in one famous moment.
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SAG HARBOR, N.Y. — It was a cliffhanger ending out of silent film-era two-reeler.
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Some of my biggest heroes were in silent film… It had to be behind the eyes.
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This is silent-film star Mary Pickford, probably on her way to a glamorous Hollywood shindig.
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"Tokyo Chorus" (1931), silent film directed by Yasujiro Ozu, with live organ accompaniment by Ben Model.
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"Tokyo Chorus" (1043), silent film directed by Yasujiro Ozu, with live organ accompaniment by Ben Model.
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THE ELECTRIC HOTEL By Dominic Smith The world of silent film is largely a vanished one.
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There were several silent film versions of "Jane Eyre" before the first feature film in 1934.
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Once there, Del Rio established herself as one of the biggest stars of the silent film era.
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Those little tobacco sticks have been the hallmark of glamour and grit since the silent film era.
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For instance, silent film actor Roscoe Arbuckle stood trial for murder after a woman died during sex.
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Animals were among the first silent film stars, and they've been hailed as natural performers ever since.
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It's so saccharine that its sincerity dates it more than the fact that it's a silent film.
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He and Ken Russell wrote the screenplay for "Valentino" (1977), about the silent film actor Rudolph Valentino.
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Gaynor was a silent film star and the first woman to win an Academy Award in 1929.
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The cowboy actor of the silent film era, Tom Mix, made one of his many films here.
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Catch Rob Zombie's unmasking of Michael Myers, and stream an experimental silent film about the history of witchcraft.
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We all know the standard sound of a silent film accompaniment, but how did that style come about?
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According to historians, the friction between "scribes" and studios dates to the end of the silent film era.
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Among those silent film household names were people like Rudolph Valentino, Greta Garbo, and, most famously, Charlie Chaplin.
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But beyond the novelty of a silent film in the IMAX era, there's not much to it. 15.
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During the silent-film era, bold individualists tested the extremes of techniques that they may also have invented.
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The silent film terminates with the killing of a moose and the stripping of its skin and flesh.
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Gorey was politically liberal yet the world he dreamed was a silent film with hand-cranked cars and gramophones.
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That final stretch of the footage is tinted red, a kind of silent film special effect, Mr. Kiehn said.
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In the 1910s, Edendale was the epicenter of the silent-film industry, housing the West Coast's first film studio.
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She is a brilliant physical comedian, the kind that a silent film director might have called a real scamp.
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Because it was a silent film where there's no real dialogue, I just wanted a strong, powerful, black woman.
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In the German silent film, Ossi Oswalda's character, tired of men determining her behavior, breaks down in her bedroom.
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In 1925, silent film actress Pearl White posed with a small performing money for this black-and-white snap.
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Score: 99Number of reviews: 15Charles Chaplin's "City Lights" was one of the last movies of the silent-film era.
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The Silent Cinema by Liam O'Leary: O'Leary provides another good overview, this one of the international silent film scene.
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According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the first person identified as sexy was the silent film star Rudolph Valentino.
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An early forerunner of the trope was the 1913 short "Silence," directed by famed silent film director Lois Weber.
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In the 1930s, Del Río triumphed in the film industry's transition to "talkies" while other silent film stars struggled.
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Filmmakers have been using skin conditions, scars, and hair loss as a shorthand for "evildoer" since the silent film era.
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He was asked, for example, to approve the engine sounds that Burns's colleagues added to silent film of military aircraft.
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She's interested in a role in Rogelio's show as a silent film singer, which leads to a cute running motif.
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CROTON-ON-HUDSON "Safety Last" (27963), silent film starring Harold Lloyd with live piano accompaniment performed by Jesse Beller. Aug.
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One premiere was actually a revival: an excerpt from Jerome Robbins's 1973 "An Evening's Waltzes," reconstructed from a silent film.
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The company will also present an acclaimed silent-film-inspired "The Magic Flute" and "War Stories," a Monteverdi mash-up.
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In Farahani's gorgeously expressive, silent-film-star face lies the ability to convey more than any amount of journalistic eloquence.
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Each cameraman also had a small, indestructible Bell & Howell 16 mm windup camera that held three minutes of silent film.
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To entertain soundlessly, viral video makers are reanimating some of the same techniques that ruled silent film over 100 years ago.
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One of the most striking parallels of early silent film and modern social video is the foregrounding of animals and babies.
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He wound up in Hollywood, where he set up a business making shoes for the studios during the silent film era.
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The chapter dedicated to close-ups, for example, uses a clip from Australian silent film director Paulette McDonagh's The Cheaters (1929).
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One of the most famous short films in cinema is an 1896 silent film about a train pulling into a station.
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In one biography of the silent film comedy star Buster Keaton, author Marion Mead recorded his pratfall-ready custard pie recipe.
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In 1923, a silent film actress named Martha Mansfield was filming Civil War drama The Warrens of Virginia in San Antonio, Texas.
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The movie will be played again in early June at the 1,400-seat Castro Theater during the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
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Bollywood's very first silent film, Raja Harishchandra (1913), featured a cast of both men and women with eyes outlined in black makeup.
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Detroit techno pioneer Jeff Mills has composed a new score for the recently rereleased French silent film A Trip to the Moon.
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He explained that many of these grand movie palaces had already reinvented themselves from vaudeville and silent film theaters into movie theaters.
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In The Artist, a silent film actor falls for an up-and-coming young actress whose ascension coincides with his growing antiquity.
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Her mouth was painted, her eyebrows were tweezed and her eyes were smoky — the look of silent film stars of that era.
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The richly varied orchestration includes captivating effects for a battery of percussion, along with some silent-film effects from a Hammond organ.
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The final product plods along at 15 to 18 frames per second, or about the rate of a hand-cranked silent film.
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Her story, told in silent film format, allows the actress, who is deaf herself, to tell her own story, in her own way.
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One goes full-blown noir private eye silent film, while in another we learn of a secret tryst between Homer and the couch.
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There, with Mr. Dixon and Lynda Segal, he wrote and performed in "Stewed Prunes," a revue inspired by vaudeville and silent film comedy.
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Just in time to celebrate another black pioneer, Martin Luther King Jr., the silent film is back, with Donald Sosin providing piano accompaniment.
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Galleries will focus on early female directors, international silent film, Soviet cinema, the Hollywood studio system and Indian independent film, among other topics.
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An innovative, well-traveled production of Mozart's "The Magic Flute" that takes its inspiration from silent film will finally come to New York.
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Mac was particularly fixated on one bit when Shiner called up several audience members to participate in the making of a silent film.
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It was a curio, albeit a supposedly magnificent one, like the last great silent film released just as the talkies were taking over.
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Writing, composing, directing, and starring in his 1928 silent film, "The Circus," Chaplin was given an honorary award by the Academy for his work.
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In the doorway to Irving's study, Irwin, who has trained in clowning and vaudeville, described how he exaggerated his movements for the silent film.
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The 50-second silent film showed the entry of a steam locomotive into a train station in the French coastal town of La Ciotat.
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A conceptualist as well as a folklorist, she will present a new, original score for "The Goddess," a seminal silent film from 1930s Shanghai.
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Premiering this week, Andrea Mastrovito's NYsferatu is an adaptation of 1922 silent film as a parable about the immigrant experience made using rotoscope animation.
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White actors in blackface were featured in D.W. Griffith's rabidly racist silent film "The Birth of a Nation" — Hollywood's first blockbuster, released in 1915.
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The building, which was once a clubhouse for silent film stars, is very narrow — a creative challenge for the developers in situating the lobby.
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The silent-film actress Colleen Moore looks to have been a cutup on her own time, posing with a St. Bernard in a convertible.
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This could have been a silent film, so steadily and thoroughly are the themes put across, so clear and strong the currents of feeling.
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I think that America is a pretty abstract short black-and-white silent film about Black history, about American history, and how that history shows.
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Women took inspiration from silent film stars like Louise Brooks and Clara Bow, plucking their brows into thin lines that went out to their temples.
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The ad, which aired during Super Bowl LIII on Sunday, features a nearly silent film of the iconic pop artist Andy Warhol eating a Whopper.
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Now, the man breaking in sees this obviously panics and takes a tumble out of the window that would make a silent film star jealous.
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In less than two minutes, the largely silent film illustrates how connections between older and younger activists are necessary in order to sustain a movement.
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It's basically a bed on a hinge that you can fold into a wall cabinet — and the setup for countless silent-film physical comedy bits.
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Thomas Ince built Culver Studios there in 1918; silent-film producer Hal Roach added his studio in 1919; and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer arrived in 1924.
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Long before "The Godfather," there was the 1927 silent film "Underworld," which set the template for movies about the rise and fall of a gangster.
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It plays like a silent film, at times, but one with an eye toward the present, and toward the way old stories shape the future.
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The History The silent-film star Clara Bow was born at 697 Bergen Street, in a tenement that has since been replaced by a brick rowhouse.
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Few people today, however, know how relevant the war remains because it seems so distant, trapped forever in wobbly black-and-white silent film, historians say.
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More recently, Harvard Medical School and a Technicolor research group reported storing and retrieving 22 megabytes that included French silent film A Trip to the Moon.
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THE RED TURTLE You can't exactly call this a silent film (there's lots of sound), but this animated international production does tell its story without dialogue.
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They're a large flight of stairs that cut up the hill that Laurel and Hardy filmed the Music Box—a silent film from the 1920s, on.
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The New School has been presenting "(Un)Silent Film Night" shows for the past few years, but never before has the event focused on improvising musicians.
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With Ron Pesch, he wrote about Muskegon High School football and the silent-film star Buster Keaton's link to the city, where he spent many summers.
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"They had faces then," says Norma Desmond, the silent-film star burning out in "Sunset Boulevard," a tragic lament for a more gorgeous time gone by.
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Now, a century after the silent-film era, Culver City is reclaiming its status as entertainment's most important campus, and its architecture is evolving in tandem.
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In this episode of Vox Almanac, Vox's Phil Edwards researches the history of movies — and discovers the Italian silent film classic that changed all movies forever.
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Campbell earned his reputation as undertaker of the stars in 1926, when he hired paparazzi to cover the public viewing of silent film star Rudolph Valentino's body.
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In the early years of the twentieth century, women worked in virtually every aspect of silent-film-making, as directors, writers, producers, editors, and even camera operators.
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The work, a silent film, was one of the world's first feature-length science fiction movies and it cost more than 5 million German Reichsmarks to make.
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The three-hour long silent film was the first movie screened inside the White House, to the delight of director D. W. Griffith and President Woodrow Wilson.
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Science fiction cinema proper may have begun with A Trip to the Moon, a short silent film made in 1902 about, well, a trip to the moon.
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" Says Syms, "It's also a loose remake of this silent film called Laughing Gas I came across through a text written by the film scholar Jacqueline Stewart.
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Even the best film ever done, [Dziga Vertov's 1929 silent film] Man With a Movie Camera, doesn't say anything about the Soviet Union or the Communist Party.
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The first feature's $21959 million budget made it the most expensive silent film ever produced, and its climactic chariot race set a new standard for action scenes.
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Rewind "Silent film was not ripe for replacement," the German film critic Rudolf Arnheim wrote in 1930, a year after talking pictures came to dominate the market.
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In 1927 — a strand told in the style of a black-and-white silent film — a deaf girl (Millicent Simmonds) searches for a movie star (Julianne Moore).
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For much of "El Camino" he practically stars in a silent film, giving us Jesse as a hunted animal so scarred that even speaking is an effort.
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The soul of silent film is comedy—the knockabout, loose-limbed antics of vaudevillians who sacrificed speech and song to the movies' technical wonders and expressive intimacy.
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It is like something you might see in a silent film, with the character's name and an icon of their face so you know who is talking.
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Her performance evokes weirdos like Reverend Jim, on "Taxi"—she's got a silent-film physical strangeness and is at once spazzy and graceful, like a nerdy ballerina.
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Also, I've seen bits of a silent film that's being restored — "Mothers of Men," one of the few surviving suffrage films from 1917, mostly filmed in Santa Cruz.
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Facebook pulled the world back into the silent film era with its muted, auto-play videos, but its latest tool could make it easier to repurpose traditional clips.
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It originally belonged to silent film star Clara Kimball, and by some reports, was the very first residence to be built in the L.A. neighborhood of Silver Lake.
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"See Charlie over there?" she says, pointing to a ceramic statue of Charlie Chaplin sitting on a grand piano once owned by fellow silent film star Harold Lloyd.
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Some believe that Blunt deserved a Best Actress nomination for portraying the flying nanny, while Krasinski should have earned one for Best Director for his near-silent film.
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Now on view at Regen Projects, Opie's silent film is a fiction without a narrative, told solely with still images, in the style of Marker's photo-centric film.
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Mostly, I loved that from 1931 to 1937 it had been the apartment of the 1910s Danish silent film legend Asta Nielsen, whose movie posters adorned the halls.
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Her silent film "Shoes" (1916), a portrait of urban poverty, will be introduced on Friday by Jane Gaines and Kate Saccone of the Women Film Pioneers Project. (anthologyfilmarchives.org.)
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There, while working to restore an old and unsuccessful feature film about Ben-Gurion by Ms. Perlov's late father, David Perlov, they tripped across the silent film reels.
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Twenty years after this photo was taken, Universal sent a letter to its East Coast lab ordering the destruction of all but 17 of its silent-film negatives.
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While I disagree — presumably as audiences who still laugh at Falstaff or the great silent film comedies would — all art is the product of its time and place.
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A commercial juggernaut, the silent film centered on a South Carolina town caught in the tempest of transformation as residents wrestled with the end of the Civil War.
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As Buster Keaton is to silent film, as Basho is to haiku, as Missy Elliott is to intergalactic sonic cosmography, P.G. Wodehouse is to the English comic novel.
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The 1915 silent film "The Birth of a Nation," which was directed by D.W. Griffith and glamorized the Ku Klux Klan, was added to the registry in 1992.
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Using a series of interior frames within the larger one of the camera lens, and fashion as a tool for delineating character, it unspools like a silent film.
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The project is called "Night Watch," and the screen on top of the barge — 20 feet across, 12 feet high — looped a silent film lasting nearly 10 minutes.
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"The Artist," a black-and-white, largely silent film that was named best picture in 2012, collected 29 percent of its total gross after that year's Oscar ceremony.
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The crowning achievement of the silent film era is a three-hour epic that rails against racism and smashes the hypocrisies of prejudice—and it's from 19-freaking-16.
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"We've got this great opera star, starring in a silent film," David Schroeder, the author of "Cinema's Illusions, Opera's Allure: The Operatic Impulse in Film," said in an interview.
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This video lays out the context of the times, and how an evolving set of guidelines for professional silent film musicians laid the groundwork for leitmotifs in movie orchestration.
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He also recalled watching the movie "Sunset Boulevard" and discovering the to-him unknown generation of the renowned silent film actors Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim and Buster Keaton.
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By framing Lampert's face in tight closeup, Timbers was also alluding to a cinematic Joan of Arc: Renée Jeanne Falconetti, the star of Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1928 silent film.
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