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| Posted: | Sun Nov 27, 2005 5:24 am |
| Forum: | Third Eye Archives - Specialty Forums |
| Subject: | Silent Movies |
| MVerdoux Replies: 910 Views: 520399 |
watched harold lloyd's THE FRESHMAN and was somewhat disappointed...
I couldn't agree with you more. THE FRESHMAN just doesn't do it for me. Somewhat in the same vain that Keaton's COLLEGE doesn't ... |
| Posted: | Tue Nov 22, 2005 4:26 am |
| Forum: | Third Eye Archives - Specialty Forums |
| Subject: | Silent Movies |
| MVerdoux Replies: 910 Views: 520399 |
I saw the first half hour of Girl Shy last night. I found the musical accompaniment very annoying. They could have made a better choice for the music and had it less obtrusive. For me it negated some ... |
| Posted: | Tue Nov 22, 2005 4:02 am |
| Forum: | Third Eye Archives - Specialty Forums |
| Subject: | Silent Movies |
| MVerdoux Replies: 910 Views: 520399 |
One thing I find interesting in these Civil War movies is that the South is always presented as the "good guys." I would guess that the success of Birth of a Nation had something to do with that, exce ... |
| Posted: | Mon Nov 21, 2005 10:54 pm |
| Forum: | Third Eye Archives - Specialty Forums |
| Subject: | Silent Movies |
| MVerdoux Replies: 910 Views: 520399 |
I think I remember, as a kid, seeing a Walt Disney film about this.
That would be THE GREAT LOCOMOTIVE CHASE (1956) starring Fess Parker & Jeffrey Hunter. The Union are the "good guys" in this ... |
| Posted: | Sat Nov 19, 2005 7:12 pm |
| Forum: | Third Eye Archives - Specialty Forums |
| Subject: | Silent Movies |
| MVerdoux Replies: 910 Views: 520399 |
"Silent Clowns: this may be cutting it a bit close, but the Silent Clowns Film Series in NYC ends on December 4th with a showing of Laurel and Hardy films. (Actually, tomorrow they're doing Raymond ... |
| Posted: | Sat Nov 19, 2005 6:33 pm |
| Forum: | Third Eye Archives - Specialty Forums |
| Subject: | Silent Movies |
| MVerdoux Replies: 910 Views: 520399 |
The discussion about reading actors' lips reminds me of the time I had to see On the Waterfront for a film class. I don't particularly care for Marlon Brando, partly because I have trouble understand ... |
| Posted: | Sat Nov 19, 2005 6:29 pm |
| Forum: | Third Eye Archives - Specialty Forums |
| Subject: | Silent Movies |
| MVerdoux Replies: 910 Views: 520399 |
BTW, a lot of time the audience was lipreading. Not hard to do - if you existed solely on a diet of silents, you would probably pick up some ability in that direction as well. If you watch Wings, I th ... |
| Posted: | Sat Nov 19, 2005 6:19 pm |
| Forum: | Third Eye Archives - Specialty Forums |
| Subject: | Silent Movies |
| MVerdoux Replies: 910 Views: 520399 |
this is particularly apparent in paulette goddard's role. goddard really never did silents. her style evolved from soundstage acting. while chaplin remains the master of nuanced gesture, goddard's app ... |
| Posted: | Fri Nov 18, 2005 8:13 pm |
| Forum: | Third Eye Archives - Specialty Forums |
| Subject: | Silent Movies |
| MVerdoux Replies: 910 Views: 520399 |
I personally think Downey's own charisma, which frankly startled me, was what captured Chaplin's.
Downey very good - but not consistantly throughout the film.However, I place the overall blame on S ... |
| Posted: | Fri Nov 18, 2005 6:50 pm |
| Forum: | Third Eye Archives - Specialty Forums |
| Subject: | Silent Movies |
| MVerdoux Replies: 910 Views: 520399 |
Downey's Chaplin is terrific but the film around him is pretty pathetic.
There is no doubt that Attenborough's CHAPLIN is very flawed biopic on a number of levels. Putting aside obvious lapses i ... |
| Posted: | Fri Nov 18, 2005 12:00 am |
| Forum: | Third Eye Archives - Specialty Forums |
| Subject: | Silent Movies |
| MVerdoux Replies: 910 Views: 520399 |
On the other hand....he actually expresses so much with his "pokerface" and is amazingly expressive. |
| Posted: | Thu Nov 17, 2005 11:51 pm |
| Forum: | Third Eye Archives - Specialty Forums |
| Subject: | Silent Movies |
| MVerdoux Replies: 910 Views: 520399 |
Keaton and Chaplin were two great comedians of the silent era or any era for that matter and it's silly to either be in one camp or another. One may appeal to you more than the other, but that has to ... |
| Posted: | Thu Nov 17, 2005 11:17 pm |
| Forum: | Third Eye Archives - Specialty Forums |
| Subject: | Silent Movies |
| MVerdoux Replies: 910 Views: 520399 |
If you look up the Keaton box that Kino put out a couple years back, there's an extra DVD called Keaton Plus. It contains a lot of the commercials he did.
They'll be a LOT more BK commercials on di ... |
| Posted: | Thu Nov 17, 2005 10:59 pm |
| Forum: | Third Eye Archives - Specialty Forums |
| Subject: | Silent Movies |
| MVerdoux Replies: 910 Views: 520399 |
Keaton's last film was a short film promoting the CPR or the CNR I forget which Canadian railway. I've seen it and it is pretty good. I think it was in the 60's. I saw an interview with his wife about ... |
| Posted: | Wed Nov 16, 2005 10:23 am |
| Forum: | Third Eye Archives - Specialty Forums |
| Subject: | Silent Movies |
| MVerdoux Replies: 910 Views: 520399 |
Just like there are Beatles fans and then there are Stones fans, there are Chaplin fans and then there are Keaton fans. I guess it's not an either/or proposition, Chaplin vs Keaton, but we all have ou ... |
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