Silent Films - do we watch them?

[IdleRich]

I will check that out in a sec, thanks.

 

[Clinamenic]

Just saw The Navigator (1924), might even rival The General for Keaton's best movie, imo!

 

[version]

Great poster.

 

[DLaurent]

Other than the famous German ones, there's a few good Japanese ones. Back when I used to watch them I did this score with a Koto Kontakt Instrument for Ozu's Fighting Friends. You may have to login to watch it.

 

[IdleRich]

I watched an ace Japanese one in December, Page of Madness maybe?

A Page of Madness (狂った一頁, Kurutta Ichipēji) is a 1926 Japanese silent experimental horror film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Lost for 45 years until it was rediscovered by Kinugasa in his storehouse in 1971, the film is the product of an avant-garde group of artists in Japan known as the Shinkankakuha (or School of New Perceptions) who tried to overcome naturalistic representation.The film is set in a mental institution in contemporary Japan.

The film is the creation of a group of Japanese avant-garde artists, known as Shinkankakuha (lit. "School of new perceptions" (or sensations)) and is considered the first film of a stillborn "neo-sensationist" current, but shows influences of German expressionist cinema. It abounds with flashbacks, quick cuts, fast camera movements, optical inventions and symbolism. It is one of the early films directed by Kinugasa as well as one of Eiji Tsuburaya's early film works, the latter credited as assistant cinematographer

I found it online easily so you should check it out.

 

[catalog]

I watched a really good Stan brakhage one recently, the act of seeing with one's own eyes. It's "proper" silent too, no music. It's about an autopsy. Pretty disturbing, but in a good way.

 

[jenks]

I showed my Y10s a Harold Lloyd the other day -Safety Last- as I was explaining the idea of silent movies to them. They’re not an academic lot but they actually enjoyed - laughed at the slapstick and were genuinely shocked at the stunts and ‘mild peril’ as it gets called now.