The ceremony was hosted by silent movie star Douglas Fairbanks.
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A pair of silent movie stars find their voice. Encores!
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Chaplin was the biggest star in Hollywood's silent movie era.
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It's cute like old perfume or looking at a silent movie.
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Like any silent movie, it needs no sound to convey its plot.
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I found the best of them and created a 4-minute silent movie.
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Cruise becomes like a silent movie star, almost completely defined by his physicality.
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"Sunset Boulevard" came out in 1950 and centered on a silent-movie star.
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Silent-movie-style placards, sparingly deployed, impart information at moments when text is vital.
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He is a trickster and a funnyman, like an old-time silent-movie star.
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Ms. Nichols imbues the scheming Margery with the radiant expressiveness of a silent-movie star.
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I left Oracle Arena convinced that J.R. Smith was acting in his own private silent movie.
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A full sized Wurlitzer pipe organ, the kind from silent-movie houses, sat in his childhood home.
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Mr. Oliver eloquently annotates that title in the manner of a silent movie star like Lillian Gish.
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Impressively lean and rigidly controlled, "The Survivalist" achieves, at times, the primitive allure of a silent movie.
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Silent Movie GIFs is an excellent resource that reveals how things used to be done in the past.
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That's partly because Mr. Felder's acting is as broad as a silent-movie villain's, except that he's talking.
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Writers Elijah Aron and Jordan Young tackled the script, which almost took the form of a silent movie.
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Apparently, theaters received a number of complaints from audience members who didn't realize the silent movie moment was intentional.
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A 1977 parody of Rudolph Valentino's silent-movie erotics in "The World's Greatest Lover" (which he wrote and directed)?
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His short, silent movie "Je ne vois rien, je n'entends rien, je ne dis rien" (1966) makes this point well.
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Robert Downey Jr. earned an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of silent movie star Charlie Chaplin in 1992's "Chaplin."
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Some experts alluded to her "silent movie quality," an ability to captivate just by being, her ability to act without words.
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Along the way, they keep encountering various characters, some of who seem to have stepped straight out of a silent movie.
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Were you were forced to pause for a moment to watch a silent movie featuring a robot that drives a motorcycle?
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She became a star in "Singin' in the Rain," a musical about how talkies put the silent movie out of business.
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A person living in 1920 could listen to a phonograph at home or go to a silent movie at the nearest theater.
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Even if you know the 1920s silent-movie vamps made famous by Garbo and her predecessors, this Siren is a singular sensation.
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When BoJack attends an underwater film festival, the entire episode transforms into a silent movie, accompanied by twinkling music and air bubbles.
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These are done in an approximation of silent-movie style: in black and white with a bit of flicker in the image.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads What do you hear in your head when you read the intertitles while watching a silent movie?
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Piotr Beczała, as Lohengrin, begins the scene with the bashful charm of a silent-movie heartthrob, his singing marked by consciously overwrought sweetness.
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In what was considered the first major Hollywood scandal, silent movie comedian Fatty Arbuckle was accused of rape and murder of actress Virginia Rappe.
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Each short phrase in the 20083-word book works like a title card in a silent movie — and Ms. Hutchins never mentions the fox.
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The building was originally a silent movie theater, which opened in 1923, and over the years it has housed a barbershop and organ showroom.
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The glass captures the intersection of 18th Street and Florida Avenue NW and gives customers the impression of watching a silent movie, albeit in color.
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He was six feet two, and in photographs his round horn-rimmed glasses make him look a bit like the silent-movie star Harold Lloyd.
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Vienna's Breitenseer Lichtspiele cinema was the place to go to watch silent movie classics such as "A Woman of Affairs" with Greta Garbo in the 1920s.
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But Ms. Close deploys the declarative physical vocabulary of silent-movie acting to convey a genuine grandeur of spirit and an equally outsize force of will.
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A dancer of superlative refinement with the air of a silent-movie star, caught somehow between the world of the speaking and the world of dreams.
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Cards, collected by O'Brien's great-aunt, bearing images of silent-movie actors line one wall, and fresh flowers in tiny vases (orchids, calla lilies) adorn each table.
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But his impossibly fast-moving legs are depicted by an animated film projected on the wall he's standing behind, an image right out of silent-movie slapstick.
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But his impossibly fast-moving legs are depicted by an animated film projected on the wall he's standing behind, an image right out of silent-movie slapstick.
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Because if you're the type who gets overly suspicious when you're high, freaking out about things like making noise during an already silent movie sounds pretty stressful, tbh.
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Flashes of me laughing with family and friends at a cookout or enjoying the company of a beautiful woman play out in my mind like a silent movie.
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The courtyard of the 90-year-old Montecito Inn, built by silent movie actor Charlie Chaplin, was filled with a thick crust of debris driven by the slides.
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L.C.H. For years I've read theater fans wondering out loud why "Mack and Mabel," Jerry Herman's silent-movie-era musical from 1974, has never been revived on Broadway.
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The new space — originally a silent movie theater, known as the York Theatre, dating back to 1923 — seems like a natural fit for the country's longest-running puppet theater.
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There wasn't a sound, not a bird, not a cricket; even the branches swaying in the breeze could not be heard, as if they were in a silent movie.
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Why he is crying we never learn, but it becomes an almost violent jag, and recalls Young Werther and the Romantic tradition as much as female silent movie stars.
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The crew heard that it was a silent movie and assumed that either a score would be placed over most everything, or all the sound would be added in postproduction.
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Among the big-name directors vying for the Palme d'Or are Michel Hazanavicius, whose silent movie "The Artist" won Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor at the 2012 Oscars.
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Visually, however, it has a silent-movie quality, with the camera nearly always focusing on the hands and mouths of those speaking or signing, to catch the many varieties of expressiveness.
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So the Jeanne necklace (named for Jeanne Dirys, a silent movie actress) had an intricate lacelike white gold setting with more than 100 pink sapphires, 82 gray spinels and 650 diamonds.
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In fact, he recently fulfilled a career-long ambition, starring in filmmaker David Lee Fisher's spoken-dialogue version of the 1922 F.W. Murnau silent movie classic Nosferatu, due to debut in 2018.
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The studio space was originally developed by silent movie pioneer Thomas H. Ince, and has been home to productions including Gone with the Wind and Citizen Kane, Amazon noted in today's announcement.
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This can mean something like the underwater episode, in which BoJack struggled with both a language barrier and his growing isolation from everyone else as he lived out a bonkers silent movie.
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There is so little dialogue in this nerve-shredding post-apocalyptic survival chiller that it almost counts as a silent movie, and yet sound has rarely been more crucial to a story.
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The music by Lillian Henley, often evoking the histrionic flavor associated with silent-movie scores, is played onstage with great fervor and rhythmic dexterity by Ms. Henley and Will Close on percussion.
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This playful dance from 1972 evokes silent-movie comedy — don't-blink-or-you'll-miss-'em moments include a robbery scene and a charley horse episode, in which a dancer's leg cramps up.
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" Before the Occult LA film series took over the Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theatre, a venue named Cinemateque 16 presented a program called "Black Magick Sex & Witchcraft in the Underground Cinema.
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Chatting with a next-door neighbor, Posey was dressed like a silent-movie star living out her retirement in Palm Beach: cream-colored linen dress, floral-print silk head scarf, oversized Tootsie sunglasses.
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The 20013 musical-comedy about the death of silent films and rise of the talkies starred Reynolds as Kathy Selden, a chorus girl who meets cute with silent movie star Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly).
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Before Kaplan came along, the home's biggest claim to fame was that the silent movie actor John Barrymore, a Stetson family friend and notorious alcoholic, would come there to dry out before film shoots.
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When Mel Gibson used ancient languages in "The Passion of the Christ" (2004) and "Apocalypto" (2006), he added subtitles, so Mr Randau was taking a risk when he made what is essentially a silent movie.
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Instead, Brendan Burns and Tony Leva, part of her current theater group, the Gottabees, play their original score for the 35-minute show, giving "Squirrel" the feel of a silent movie with a Chaplinesque heroine.
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Originally conceived of as a vaudeville stage named the Yosemite Theatre in 2403, it quickly transitioned into a silent movie cinema house known as the Eagle Theatre, which then made a segue way into sound.
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From Matt Hollingsworth's direction to Jordan Young and Elijah Aron's silent movie script to Hanawalt and her team's thorough and gorgeous imagining of what the undersea world is like in this surreal world they've created.
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Marrying hallucinatory visions to hard-edged realism, true crime horror to black humor, they flicker in the mind's eye like scenes from a silent movie — a melodrama based on Jack the Ripper's dream journal, perhaps.
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The Alloy Orchestra, whose percussive music always adds a modern, immersive layer to the experience of watching a silent movie without ever disrespecting the art, will provide live accompaniment with one of its best scores.
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Today, the site, which was also a filming location for the 1915 silent movie "The Birth of a Nation," according to the book, is home to the 17-acre Eibs Pond Park, a wetland preserve.
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"When you start broadcasting, it's like you have a storefront," said Rebecca Webb, founder of the Portland Radio Project, KSFL 99.1, which broadcasts from two rooms above a closed silent-movie-era theater built around 1915.
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In the current millennium, only "Chicago" and "The Artist"—itself a love-letter to another golden age of cinema, the silent movie—have won Best Picture for both the comedy/musical Golden Globe category and the Oscars.
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It obliterated presenters' and Mr. Gervais's patter, turned a bit with Jonah Hill as the bear from "The Revenant" into a virtual silent movie, and treated home viewers as if we were exiled to the kids' table.
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The Polish-born Rubinstein may have the exotic and imperious countenance of an aging silent-movie vamp (crossed with Cloris Leachman's Frau Blücher in "Young Frankenstein"), while the perky, blond Arden could pass as Beaver Cleaver's mother.
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On the roster: live performances by violinist Maja Cerar, computer works by Tania León, a fresh soundtrack for a 1920s silent movie by Clelia Patrono, and a cello in dialogue with computerized noise as played by Aaron Einbond.
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DeHaven, who appeared in more than two dozen films starting as a child in a bit role in Charlie Chaplin's last silent movie, died on Saturday in hospice care in Las Vegas, Scott Stander said in an email.
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What is gained by having the fight play out like a silent movie, shot in black and white with dialogue printed as intertitles and Lenny gussied up in Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp meets Johnny Depp's Edward Scissorhands drag?
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Part of the annual Fringe Encore Series, which presents favorites from fringe festivals around the world, "Macbeth Muet" is like a cross between a low-budget puppet show and a silent movie, with all the riffing silliness that suggests.
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Mr. Reed decided to pose as a journalist and bluff his way into interviews with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Buster Keaton, the aging silent film star who was promoting "Film," a 22-minute experimental silent movie written by Samuel Beckett.
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The entertainment industry started drafting them in 1921, when the silent-movie star Fatty Arbuckle, who had just signed a then-astonishing $1 million contract with Paramount Pictures, was accused of the rape and manslaughter of a girl at a party.
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After The Owl's Legacy, ambitious in its scope but a bit tame in form, Marker would push further into different fields, such as more installation work (Zapping Zone, Silent Movie), CD-ROM (Immemory), and virtual reality (his Second Life museum, Ouvroir).
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After scooping Oscars in 2012 for his silent movie pastiche "The Artist", Michel Hazanavicius has provoked disciples of Godard, the darling of art-house cinema since New Wave classics such as 1960's "Breathless" who is still making challenging avant-garde films.
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"Hush" (season 4, episode 10) It's more of a given now that TV shows will eventually break with their own format for the fun of it, but that was far from inevitable when "Hush" briefly made Buffy half silent movie, half straight horror.
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Ulanova's Juliet (Prokofiev hailed her as "the genius of Russian ballet, its elusive soul") had the fervor of Lillian Gish's greatest silent-movie performances; her most famous moments were in running across the stage to Friar Laurence's cell, inflamed by despair. 2.
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This year they'll include Particle, the story of a two-dimensional light being who exists in the pages of a giant, hand-drawn comic book; a kinetic dance performance inside an extravagant silent movie palace; an "elaboration" upon Vincent Van Gogh's Provence landscapes; and Asteroids!
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Timing, momentum and pluck: That's pretty much all that the young hero of Buster Keaton's silent movie "The General" has going for him as he sets off to retrieve his locomotive, his girl and his honor in this madcap Civil War comedy from 1927.
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The collection includes a number of items from the silent movie days of so-called "race films," an independent film movement in which Black filmmakers could tell their own stories, cast Black actors, and distribute their films to segregated movie theaters serving Black viewers.
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" In a striking image near the end of the book, she sees the accused as a big baby, "with his low brow and puffy eyes, his slumped spine and man-boobs, his silent-movie grimaces and spasms of tears, his big clean ironed handkerchief.
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But there were enough of these mishaps to seize the imagination, fixing in popular consciousness the image of a bed that could snap you up in its jaws as you slept, a dark Freudian joke that silent-movie comedians turned into a staple of slapstick farce.
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But in the age of binge-watching, something like an X-Files marathon—one of which was hosted at LA's Cinefamily Silent Movie Theater over the weekend, as part of a live taping of comedian/actor Kumail Nanjiani's X-Files Files podcast—takes on a new identity.
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Well, it's been tried in film — from a 1914 silent movie to "Shakespeare in Love" to the authorship conspiracy thriller "Anonymous" — and on television, too, chiefly in "Will Shakespeare," the 1978 English series that starred Tim Curry as Will and Ian McShane as his rival Christopher Marlowe.
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Told partly in color and partly in black and white, the film contains long stretches that are virtually silent, with musical accompaniment (composed by Carter Burwell) that sometimes adds atmosphere, and sometimes punctuates what's happening on screen, similar to how musical accompaniment worked during the silent-movie era.
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The start is like a dull silent movie or unfunny Three Stooges, but once the performers start manipulating chairs into a chorus line, the work takes off, and in a section of sliding in socks, a new and beautiful kind of motion is introduced into the Pilobolan universe.
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It plays out a bit like a comic without words, which I'm a fan of, but also a but like a silent movie or a music video, where you're going to be reading a lot into body language and how these characters move throughout the world and looking through their possessions.
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Together they raised $30 million between 2006 and 2014 to fund new streetscaping in Gordon Square, including planting trees, and purchase the Capitol Theater, a 20s-era silent movie house, turning it into a three-screen complex exhibiting a mix of blockbuster and art films with children's programming on summer mornings.
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The novel and its seven Montgomery-penned sequels have already spawned a silent movie, a talkie and more than half a dozen TV shows, including the particularly adored 230 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation mini-series starring Megan Follows as Anne and a recently aired PBS version starring Martin Sheen as Matthew.
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The novel and its seven Montgomery-penned sequels have already spawned a silent movie, a talkie and more than half a dozen TV shows, including the particularly adored 1985 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation mini-series starring Megan Follows as Anne and a recently aired PBS version starring Martin Sheen as Matthew.
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On the capacious stage of the Alexander Kasser Theater at Montclair State University, "When Angels Fall" borrows much from the language of film — the scope of the audience's vantage; the largeness of scale; the emotion-stirring music (by Arthur Bison), which often sounds like it could underscore a silent movie.
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In the silent-movie era, a girl's adorably dimpled cheeks might have been an asset, but by the 1930s the camera had zoomed out to take in her whole figure, draped in bias-cut gowns that shimmered over the body with no visible means of support beyond the musculature of the disciplined wearer.
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Inspired by his hero Bass Reeves, the black deputy who in that silent movie from Episode 1 asked people to "trust in the law," Will is shown joining a nearly all-white police force in New York but becoming quickly disabused of his faith in the law as it applies to black people.
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And somewhere along the way, he's become one of the town's biggest boosters, guiding a visitor around the Hotel Fauchère, which dates back to the middle of the 19913th century, and the recently revitalized Milford Theater, a former silent movie house that's now a venue for special events like the annual Readers & Writers Festival.
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The three-time Tony winner — who has returned to the role of the famous fictional fading silent movie star 23 years after first playing it on Broadway in Andrew Lloyd Webber's acclaimed musical Sunset Boulevard — stopped the matinee performance of the Broadway revival to scold an audience member who was taking a photo of her, multiple sources confirm to PEOPLE.
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I met up with Bourdain in between two back-to-back LA premiere screenings of the web series' second season in the back room of the silent movie theater to talk about how the "artisanal" craze started, the food media's role in its perpetuation, the pros and cons of making everything in-house, and why unnecessary things can be the most beautiful.
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Wanda likes to station herself in her wheelchair on the sidewalk in front of the building, smoking with a cigarette holder like a silent-movie star and drinking vodka through a straw, as she talks about her glory days to Mateo (Sean Carvajal), the sweet seventeen-year-old son of a terminally ill resident, and works on purposefully starving herself to death.
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One hundred years ago, the first truly national celebrities from the silent movie era -- Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks -- were dispatched on a national tour to sell war bonds on behalf of the Wilson administration during World War I. (For those of you tempted to Google "war bonds," I'll save you a click: it's how we used to pay for wars before we passed the buck to the next generation).
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