Favourite silent movie

[Alethia]

The General

just got it from netflix...is it really that good?  i was gonna put off watchin it cuz i have an assignment, but fuck the assignment, i'm not in the mood.....man, i cant wait.....

[Ravi]

The General

just got it from netflix...is it really that good?  i was gonna put off watchin it cuz i have an assignment, but fuck the assignment, i'm not in the mood.....man, i cant wait.....

I don't want to get your hopes up, but this is the best damn movie ever made.

Well, it's not quite that good, but I liked it a lot.  I saw it with no expectations.

[cine]

if you like silent film, you'll love the General. Simple as that. When I name the best silent films, I want to mention a Keaton film, but usually I want to break convention and just go with one of his more 'obscure' titles if you can call them that.. but I just can't. The General is his most superior film. It's an epic silent film and very funny. Can't go wrong with the General.

[SHAFTR]

The Last Laugh is good.

[MacGuffin]

'Lost' Valentino film discovered
Source: BBC News

A 1922 Rudolph Valentino silent movie classic has been found after being considered lost for almost 75 years.

The Dutch national film archive discovered the copy of melodrama Beyond the Rocks in a private collection left to the Filmmuseum.

The movie, also starring Gloria Swanson, is in good condition apart from about two damaged minutes.

Historian Jan van den Brink said:"We are feeling rather excited because it is a wonderful rediscovery."

Beyond the Rocks is the only film in which Valentino and Swanson starred together, added Mr van den Brink.

The museum was given the collection of more than 2,000 film canisters in 2000 after the death of a collector in the town of Haarlem.

Archivists had taken such a long time to find the Valentino movie because the deceased collector had organised the films in an unusual way.

Festival unveiling

Beyond the Rocks is an 81-minute romantic melodrama about a woman pushed into a marriage with an older man but who then falls for Valentino's nobleman character on her honeymoon.

"It is a complete feature film in six acts with a beautiful story in which Valentino plays a rather decent character," said Mr van den Brink.

The Filmmuseum will restore the film, repairing scratches and other minor damage.

It has also asked Dutch composers to write a new score to be performed live when it shows the silent movie at its festival in Amsterdam next year.

Mr Van den Brink said the Filmmuseum expected interest in the film from archives around the world as well as the film's producers, Paramount, and planned to produce a copy for international distribution.

Rudolph Valentino was born in 1895 to a middle-class Italian family.

He moved to New York in 1913 and became a huge star in the early 1920s for his steamy romantic performances. He died in 1926 following complications from a perforated ulcer.

Gloria Swanson, best known for her portrayal of Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder's 1950 Sunset Boulevard, was one of the most popular and influential female stars of the 1920s.

[El Duderino]

i choose The General.

favorite silent character: Edward Scissorhands

[MacGuffin]

favorite silent character: Edward Scissorhands

He's not entirely silent. He does speak; "I'm not finished."

[samsong]

Sunrise is still and forever will be my favorite silent film.

and to go off of what El "spoiler" Duderino started...

favorite silent character -- off the top of my head, anyway -- is Hattie (Samantha Morton) from Sweet and Lowdown.

[El Duderino]

favorite silent character: Edward Scissorhands

He's not entirely silent. He does speak; "I'm not finished."

oooohhh.....right. forgot about that.

[Kal]

1) The Gold Rush
2) Metropolis
3) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligary

[The Obstruction]

I haven´t seen so many, but if i was to chosse, then i would pick UN CHIEN ANDALOU/AN ANDALUSIAN DOG.

You can really feel Salvador Deli's art in it, it's like one of his picture, except it's not him who painted/directed it.

[molly]

Everything of Charlie Chaplin. Can't pick one, i havent seen any silent movie for ages, but Charlie Chaplin was genius. It's like silent movie was invented for him.

AND Mr Bean with Rowan Atkinson is MOSTLY silent. Watch Rowan Atkinson, that guy has a rubber body.

[cine]

AND Mr Bean with Rowan Atkinson is MOSTLY silent. Watch Rowan Atkinson, that guy has a rubber body.

Yes, Atkinson deserves credit for being able to do the character well, but everything he did was greatly influenced by Jacques Tati and his Mr. Hulot character. Without him, there would never have been a Mr. Bean..

[molly]

Mr Cinephile, you are a true cinephile.
Mr Hulot, is that "Uncle"?

[cron]

Oncle molly, oncle .