― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 1 November 2003 21:14 (twenty years ago) link
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― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 1 November 2003 21:21 (twenty years ago) link
http://cinetecadelfriuli.org/gcm/comunicati_stampa/COMUNICATI_LIVE_03/COMUNICATI_STAMPA_imgs/Mosjoukine.jpg
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― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 1 November 2003 21:32 (twenty years ago) link
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― ryan (ryan), Sunday, 2 November 2003 21:00 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 2 November 2003 21:02 (twenty years ago) link
sad about the remainder of murnau's career: one film now lost, another cut to ribbons by the producers, the final film a flawed bit of brilliance which only premiered after his death in a car accident.
― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 2 November 2003 21:03 (twenty years ago) link
(admittedly I had just smoked a joint but STILL)
― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 2 November 2003 21:06 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 2 November 2003 21:12 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 2 November 2003 21:13 (twenty years ago) link
(they were crying and talking? what were they saying?!)
― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 2 November 2003 21:38 (twenty years ago) link
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― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 2 November 2003 22:30 (twenty years ago) link
On the one hand, I hate the tinny ragtime music they have on a lot of silent movie videos; on the other hand, I feel very uncomfortable in the silence of a silent movie. Seeing Keaton film at Film Forum many years ago with a live (and very talented) pianist was king-kameha-meha classique.
― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 3 November 2003 10:02 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 3 November 2003 10:19 (twenty years ago) link
amateurist keep posting! yours' are the only posts i check in fr nowadays!
― David. (Cozen), Monday, 3 November 2003 11:50 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 3 November 2003 12:02 (twenty years ago) link
i ws quite surprised that he had this though; doesn't normally go in for silent films. me either.
they once showed nosferatu (murnau, right?) at the GFT with live piano accompinament. pretty cool.
― David. (Cozen), Monday, 3 November 2003 12:04 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.moma.org/visit_moma/momafilm/sjostrom_2003.html
oh and s1utsky i think it's coming to montreal too in 2004.
― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 8 November 2003 18:19 (twenty years ago) link
― s1utsky (slutsky), Saturday, 8 November 2003 20:53 (twenty years ago) link
And, yeah obviously, Sunrise is the tops. Ivan Mosjoukine is plenty hot, but Murnau was a fox. Forget Malkovich, he should've been played by Dermot Mulroney or Guy Pearce or... but I get off on the tangent.
Amateurist, recommend to me a really good, reasonably priced (say... $70) multi-region DVD player.
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 8 November 2003 21:55 (twenty years ago) link
― brutal (Cozen), Sunday, 9 November 2003 01:02 (twenty years ago) link
...just some of my favorites. And Fairbanks swashbucklers, just about anything with Lon Chaney are also wonderful.
I've also always wanted to see the silent Wizard Of Oz serials. Have these ever been rereleased?
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Sunday, 9 November 2003 06:23 (twenty years ago) link
where are you, in the us? best buy was selling some cyberhome 500 models for $60 about nine months ago, and then they disappeared. but they might be back. they're not top of the line players but they can be switched to all-region very easily and are quite cheap.
― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 9 November 2003 15:30 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 9 November 2003 15:31 (twenty years ago) link
I'm ashamed that I've yet to see Sjostrom, but I'm also excited that I haven't yet seen Sjostrom. Both he and Mizoguchi are just waiting for me at this point and I'm so looking forward to visiting.
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 9 November 2003 15:40 (twenty years ago) link
"Greed" and "He Who Gets Slapped" I would rate nearly as highly; as Amateurist says above, HWGS is a truly macabre and impressionistic melodrama. Lon Chaney... magnifique. Such an eerie and sympathetic physical and facial performance.
I'd like to see more of Sjostrom's work...
Wish I could see the 4hr reconstruction of "Greed"; how do people feel that plays...?
How do people rate "The Crowd" and "Flesh and the Devil", out of interest? Those two show up on TCM quite a lot, and I always tend to say I'll get round to watching them.How would people rate FWM's "Faust"? This looks a very tempting bargain in Fopp @ £7 on DVD.
― Tom May (Tom May), Saturday, 6 December 2003 20:51 (twenty years ago) link
i've seen like 20 silent films this past month or so, one today in fact, ozu's "i was born but."
i was supposed to go to some hipster silent film expo at the palais de tokyo tonight but it was sold out.
the crowd is beyond excellent, i haven't seen flesh and the devil.
― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 6 December 2003 20:55 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 6 December 2003 20:56 (twenty years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 6 December 2003 20:57 (twenty years ago) link
Not being much near London in general, don't think I'd be able to make any such showings. A shame as seeing silents in the cinema is a great experience: I got the full effect from "Sunrise" in seeing it at the local Arts Cinema.
― Tom May (Tom May), Saturday, 6 December 2003 21:05 (twenty years ago) link
I don't get his reveence for "Sunrise" that so many people have. Maybe it is because critics don't like the genre films in which Murnau really excels.
― DV (dirtyvicar), Saturday, 6 December 2003 23:36 (twenty years ago) link
the reverance is because it's an astounding film
are those other films "genre" films i dunno. they predate current understandings of their genres.
i still "nosferatu" is his best film btw.
― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 6 December 2003 23:37 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 6 December 2003 23:39 (twenty years ago) link
The Three Ages, while a good concept and parody, seems to fall a little flatter than the other features I've seen yet (The General, The Navigator, and The Saphead). I'd say my favorite two of his are The General and The Navigator.
His shorts are absolutely k-classic in a way that a feature couldn't possibly be.
― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 7 December 2003 01:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 7 December 2003 03:46 (twenty years ago) link