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Post by Apollo Gnomon on Jul 10, 2010 20:42:51 GMT -4
Man With A Movie Camera - Dziga Vertov, edited by his wife Svilova. Amazingly, this team of filmmakers was tasked with traveling around and making propaganda. This film, if watched thoughtfully, might have made and audience more doubtful of what they were being shown - but I don't think it had that effect.
Odd, but interesting. Available on netflix.
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Post by Ginnie on Jul 19, 2010 18:05:46 GMT -4
Well, since the last time I posted... Read more than I've seen....
Was watching The Ten Commandments (1925?) - I was very impressed with the special effects. The parting of the Red Sea was really believable.
Saw some of D.W. Griffith's Abraham Lincoln (1930) - until I got bored. The acting was very wooden.
Watched Orphans of the Storm (1921, also by D.W. Griffith) on TCM (which is a great station for old movies BTW) until I got too tired and had to go to bed...
TCM just had on 2001:A Space Odyssey - one of my favourites. Followed by 2010 which I may watch.
Morroco (1930) was on a few nights ago but I had other things to do. It was the second film by Marlene Dietrich.
ALSO - I'm expanding this thread to "THE MOVIE THREAD" not just silent movies....
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Post by gillianren on Jul 19, 2010 18:17:47 GMT -4
I watched The Last Picture Show today. I was originally going to save my review a bit to be all cool and ironic, but I've come up with a brute-force workaround to my problem. You see, the library switched software on us a couple of months ago; the old software was so old it wasn't supported anymore. However, they're actually asking the makers of the new software what it would take to go back to it, because the new stuff is terrible. It doesn't necessarily call up all matching results. It doesn't let you sort large (as in 500+, admittedly not a list the average person would use) lists, and it doesn't automatically sort them in any order I've been able to work out. It is, in short, nothing but trouble. Well, you can skip through large lists faster, but since you need to look at individual records to find what you want anyway, that's not too helpful.
Saturday night, rather than call the Movie Watching Epic Project done, I visually read through every single entry--that's over fifteen thousand--to add more so that the project won't be over on "last." If I hadn't decided to do that, I would have ended on Last Picture Show, because that's funny.
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