In the context of film, silence helps us appreciate the beauty and gift that is our sense of sight.
Tag: silent cinema
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The sweet sound of silents
The film is the thing, the guiding force behind what they do.
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In the silent classic The Lighthouse Keepers, styles and emotions come crashing in like waves
Jean Gremilion directed this eclectic French tale of a lighthouse keeper and his half-mad son.
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Lois Weber laid down a marker for women in film
But her progressive ideas left something to be desired.
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Renée Baker on the challenges of scoring silent race films
This fall the musician will provide live accompaniment to two mid-1920s pictures.
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Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut is pretty good when you turn the sound off
Ryan Gosling could learn a lesson from Shaun the Sheep.
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An interview with silent-film accompanist David Drazin (part two)
The longtime Chicago musician shares his knowledge of silent movie history and recalls some notable screenings he’s accompanied.
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Get your ticket for The Yellow Ticket
Noting a screening of a rare 1918 silent film with a new live score
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See Yasujiro Ozu’s final silent film this Saturday
An Inn in Tokyo (1935) screens as part of the Music Box Theatre’s Second Saturday Silent Cinema series
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It’s Mary Pickford Week in Chicago
Previewing two Mary Pickford movies playing in town this week, both of them introduced by film historian Christel Schmidt
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What’s new again: E.A. Dupont’s Variety
Revisiting the forgotten German expressionist melodrama, once a staple of film studies courses
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Sherlock Holmes opens the Silent Summer Film Festival
John Barrymore stars as the great detective in a rarely screened silent feature
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A passage to India
The silent Indian drama A Throw of Dice screens at Grant Park Music Festival with live performance of a new orchestral score.
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Metropolis: (Finally Almost) The Director’s Cut
Could this be the last restoration of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis?