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Showing posts with label silent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label silent. Show all posts
Monday, 4 August 2014

The One-Man Band (1900)

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More trickery in front of a static camera from Georges Melies here, less than two minutes long and presented as a novelty rather than a narr...
Saturday, 27 October 2012

Nosferatu (1922)

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Might as well review Nosferatu now; hopefully I'll get a good few pageviews after Mark Gatiss' documentary is screened on B...
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Sunday, 21 October 2012

The Lost World (1925)

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Again, no quote, what with this being a silent film. Like all silent films, it's from sufficiently long ago as to come from an...
Sunday, 7 October 2012

Pandora's Box (1929)

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No quote, alas: this is a silent film, albeit one of the last. Like a rather large proportion of the silents I've reviewed, it...
Saturday, 2 June 2012

The Man Who Laughs (1928)

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"A queen made me a lord, but God made me a man!" Gosh, what a fittingly republican sentiment that is for this of all we...
Friday, 13 April 2012

L'Etoile de Mer (1928)

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"Nous sommes a jamais perdus dans le désert de léternèbre." This is an interesting little comparison to Un Chien Andalou , dire...
Saturday, 17 March 2012

Frau im Mond (1929)

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"Learned ignoramuses, lacking in fantasy, whose brains work in inverse proportion to their level of calcification…!" I ca...
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Saturday, 18 February 2012

Frankenstein (1910)

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“…” Oh my. I’ve no idea how I’m supposed to judge this film, more than a hundred years after it was made. It’s completely alien to ...
Tuesday, 4 October 2011

Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari (1920)

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“…” Well, that was interesting. It’s not the first time I’ve seen this, and not the only silent film I’ve ever seen. But I haven...