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Take Nosferatu, a 1922 German black - and - white silent film about a vampire.

Selected from the show's participating galleries by David Gryn, Director of Daata Editions and Artprojx, this year's program will include «Muxima», the first film by Chilean - born artist Alfredo Jaar, as well as a silent film about music by Christian Marclay and a new work by Liliana Porter.

And so it is that Into Great Silence, director Philip Gröning's transcendent documentary about austere, cloistered Carthusian monks, ends up being a (mostly) silent film about communication.

A mostly silent film about a silent film star whose career is derailed by the advent of talkies, The Artist recalls Singin» in the Rain in its story.

Essentially, it is a silent film about silent films.

«Blue Ruin» is at its best when it's a virtually silent film about how a man's need to resolve past trauma is necessarily messy.

Sex in Chains is a 1928 silent film about a man (William Dieterle, who also directed) sent to prison for manslaughter.

A devotee of Metropolis, the 1927 Fritz Lang silent film about a society in which technology has overwhelmed humanity, Monáe has always sided with the machines.

In one study, people watched a silent film about an accident at an industrial site that occurred because of poor safety practices.

Not exact matches

The leader of the conservative evangelical organization Family Research Council said that evangelicals were happy to give President Donald Trump a «do - over» after a previously unpublished 2011 interview with adult film actress Stormy Daniels revealed that she may have been paid to remain silent about an extramarital affair with Trump in 2006.

During a raid last month, FBI agents seized records about Cohen's clients and personal finances — including documents related to money that Cohen paid adult - film star Stormy Daniels to remain silent about an alleged decade - old affair with Trump.

The president did not mention his abrupt firing earlier this week of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson by tweet, the personnel turmoil engulfing his administration, special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign or reports of his alleged affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels — and his lawyer paying her to keep silent about the relationship.

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Along with another early silent - screen actress, Mae Marsh, Clifford would turn up in about every other Ford film, usually playing pioneer women.

As it turns out, «'' Amy»» entrepreneur Banky Edwards (Jason Lee) has sold the film rights for his «'' Bluntman & Chronic»» comic book — which is loosely based on Jay and Silent Bob — to Miramax, and the studio greenlit a big - budget production.Before it even begins, though, the pending «'' Bluntman & Chronic»» film provides more than enough fodder for a new wave of hate - mongers who prowl the Internet, namely pimple - faced geeks who slam anything they can type about on a series of movie gossip websites.

The film's highlight is the custody - hearing sequence, in which several human celebrities of yesteryear show up as witnesses: Silent film stars Clara Kimball Young and Francis X. Bushman, both of whom reminisce about their career highlights, and former boxing champion Jim Jeffries, who recalls his glory days of the 1890s.

The film is drastically different from VanderMeer's book, but it's also about something that can't be uttered, and, accordingly, Garland goes silent for the film's stunning finale.

With expressive looks reminiscent of a silent film star, she has a clarity and a directness about her that are hugely appealing.

A fascinating projection of Guy Maddin's memories and personal mythologies about the city where he was born and raised, juxtaposed upon a fantastical recount of historical facts and urban legends with his trademark silent film aesthetic, grainy and ethereal.

Plus, hilariously, he praises the appearance of the «infant» demon - critters from the first film as being a directorial choice rather than a throwback to Silent Hill 1 (the game), which is what he hates about the appearances of the monsters in Revelation!

Its comparatively simple first act remains a good example of how to apply the horror elements of the Silent Hill games to film with a degree of elegance and wit, and for a solid 35 minutes, it's an atmospheric film about a mother whose deeply maternal desire to help her daughter inadvertently places her in danger, and the need for Radha Mitchell's Rose to find her daughter when she goes missing provides a cogent and palatable, if somewhat slight, emotional basis from which the proceeding action can spring.

Brilliantly structured as a contemporary chamber drama about loving your neighbours in the first part and, in the second, as a dreamy silent film re-imagining of their heretofore unknown histories, this is the rare critical darling that's as warm as it is intelligent.

The silent version also comes with a great commentary by Timothy Brock, who walks through the main interest points about the making of the movie, and some of how Chaplin made the film, and his later cuts.

The silent film Wings (1927) did a pretty fair job exploring the manner of aerial combat as did Howard Hughes» Hell's Angels (1930), but there are no where near the films about the First World War that there are the Second.

The fact that The Big Parade is a silent film actually gives us more than usual to say about its soundtrack.

There's something undeniably special about viewing silent films at the Castro.

Except for a delightful coda during the closing credits, where Tavernier wonders whether the Lumière brothers «directed» the passersby in their first film, there's nothing about silent cinema.

But the more Molly's Game tries to decide what its story is about rather than just telling it, the more the film feels like it's trying to «solve» Molly rather than portray her, to the point where its two big emotional moments involve Molly being sat down and informed about her own daddy issues by one male character, and getting passionately defended by another, her lawyer (Idris Elba), while she stays silent.

SAVING BRINTON, a new documentary about the discovery of a treasure trove of silent films.

Because she looked about fifteen, and because for many years she misrepresented her date of birth, a myth grew up around Anita, alleging that she was writing Griffith scripts from the age of 12; vestiges of the Anita Loos legend were utilized for Peter Bogdanovich's 1975 film Nickelodeon, in which Tatum O'Neal played a pre-teen silent movie scriptwriter.

The opening act in Toronto feels like a standard indie comedy about (yet another) white male's arrested development, the piano - based score and aversion to dialogue feels indebted to silent films, and once the film transitions to the wilderness it goes into European arthouse territory (the title card doesn't appear until James ends up in BC, a choice that implies this is where the film really begins).

«The Artist,» the charming film about Hollywood's transition from silent movies to talkies, and the family drama «The Descendants» were catapulted to front - runner Oscar status Sunday night with an armful of Golden Globes to their names as the awards...

As for Silent House, it's got the benefit of riding the Elizabeth Olsen wave and being the first horror film to hit in about a month.

EXTRAS: There's a new audio commentary by Chaplin historian Charles Maland, a video essay about Jackie Coogan, interviews with Coogan and Lita Grey Chaplin, deleted scenes, archival footage, the 1922 silent short «Nice and Friendly,» an essay by film scholar Tom Gunning and much more.

When I spoke to her on July 3, 2012 about the 17th annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival, we started with why it was one of the few places to see what Victor Fleming and Ernst Lubitsch were up to before films began to speak.

An oneiric swirl of fever dreams, half - remembered childhood terrors, forgotten silent cinema, and tall tales, Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson's film can only be written about with metaphors and abstractions.

A long, silent shot on Neeson's face at the end of the film, where the actor looks like he's about to crumble as his lower lip quivers ever - so - slightly, is marvelous, and a reminder that Neeson still has some great performances left in him.

The film, about a king in exile, lacks the showstopping stunts and show - off acrobatics of Sr.'s silent classics, but the old fashioned love story and simplicity of adventure is pleasantly retro.

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North American rights to «The Silent Man,» a film about the life of Mark Felt, the secret high - ranking FBI informant during the Watergate scandal, famously known as «Deep Throat.»

In a youth film culture that has embraced increasingly violent and sadistic horror films, especially those that linger on acts of inhuman brutality and excruciatingly endured mutilations (quite accurately dubbed «torture porn»), what's not to like about a film about a silent butcher who bludgeons the passengers of a late - night subway ride, preps the carcasses like slaughtered cattle and hangs them like sides of beef?

All serious film fans (and filmmakers) need to see this and it is amazing it became so forgotten, but being all the films became orphan films and silent film tend to be the most volatile of all to save, preserve and even know about, you see why this work is so priceless.

But other than the mockumentary Comic Book: The Movie (2004) and, arguably, Kevin Smith's Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), there haven't been many films that are actually about superhero movies and their place in modern culture.

Even with an increased curiosity about the new «Silent Hill» film and trying to make sense of whatever is going on with «Cloud Atlas» — which I'm starting to think is just out there enough that I might really enjoy it — the next movie I'm most excited about is Daniel Craig's return to James Bond in «Skyfall» set to arrive in theaters on Nov. 9.

I think the Academy will feel uncomfortable about nominating a silent film for anything major beyond that the same way they do with foreign language films and animated fims.

(Lest we forget, concern was raised before the film came out about whether the largely silent first act of WALL - E would be a problem for audiences.)

There is some conceptual weight to drive the film along: an homage to silent cinema, an index of Todd Hayne's filmography, a flight of fancy along the road of childlike wonder and a favourable gesture of the impossible... but none of this adds up to a feature film, and instead Wonderstruck comes off about as insightfully as a cluttered brainstorm session from a writer's blocked first grader who can't quite figure out what his thoughts are all about.

There were about 10 films in the silent era, including an American telling directed by Cecil B. deMille.

8:00 pm — TCM — The Big Parade This is a silent film that gets talked about a lot, and I've never been able to catch up with it — John Gilbert is a layabout rich boy who heads off to fight in WWI, meets a French girl, the whole yada yada, but I'm really looking forward to checking it out this week.

Directed by James Cruze, the 1923 silent film is about a group of pioneers traveling through the old West in 1848 from Kansas to Oregon, encountering several obstacles along the way.