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Re: The Cabinet of Dr Shhh! (silent movies thread)
Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2023 7:40 pm
by sally
Re: The Cabinet of Dr Shhh! (silent movies thread)
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2023 7:21 pm
by sally
celebrating the return of stumfilm with an elegant quickie
a lonely woman - august blom (1917)
Re: The Cabinet of Dr Shhh! (silent movies thread)
Posted: Tue May 02, 2023 11:19 am
by sally
Re: The Cabinet of Dr Shhh! (silent movies thread)
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 7:08 pm
by sally
Re: The Cabinet of Dr Shhh! (silent movies thread)
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 10:52 pm
by sally
Re: The Cabinet of Dr Shhh! (silent movies thread)
Posted: Sat May 06, 2023 9:45 am
by greennui
Re: The Cabinet of Dr Shhh! (silent movies thread)
Posted: Sun May 07, 2023 1:07 pm
by sally
Re: The Cabinet of Dr Shhh! (silent movies thread)
Posted: Tue May 09, 2023 7:10 pm
by sally
Re: The Cabinet of Dr Shhh! (silent movies thread)
Posted: Tue May 09, 2023 7:25 pm
by greennui
Re: The Cabinet of Dr Shhh! (silent movies thread)
Posted: Wed May 10, 2023 9:36 pm
by sally
Re: The Cabinet of Dr Shhh! (silent movies thread)
Posted: Fri May 12, 2023 6:49 pm
by sally
the devil in the city - germaine dulac (1925)
with that, i think i've now exhausted all the female directed films of 1925 (this and red kimona) unless anyone knows any others?
Re: The Cabinet of Dr Shhh! (silent movies thread)
Posted: Sat May 13, 2023 12:31 pm
by sally
watching some bfi 1925s
uti - herbert uzielli
unabashed pure colonialist gaze (dead tiger and tuba)
https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wat ... 925-online
the dolgarrog disaster - frank h kenyon
welsh dam burst:
https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wat ... 925-online
stratford-on-avon - cecil m hepworth
https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wat ... 925-online
the scilly isles
daffodil industry:
https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wat ... 925-online
dorset coast - stoll bailey
camping holiday footage:
https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wat ... 925-online
Re: The Cabinet of Dr Shhh! (silent movies thread)
Posted: Sat May 13, 2023 9:55 pm
by Lencho of the Apes
Hepworth in '25? Wow, I should look into that.
Re: The Cabinet of Dr Shhh! (silent movies thread)
Posted: Sun May 14, 2023 10:40 am
by sally
Lencho of the Apes wrote: ↑Sat May 13, 2023 9:55 pm
Hepworth in '25? Wow, I should look into that.
it's a 12 min travelogue of shakespeare's birthplace, not sure how interesting that is. the bfi have a digital scan of his 1923 comin' thro' the rye, and 1921 tansy, which were available at certain uk specific sites until covid and now there are 'currently no plans to make available outside london, sorry', when it's cheaper for me to get to paris right now than london. am currently very pissed off with the bfi, should call it london film institute, seeing how little it serves the majority of the country. rant over.
Re: The Cabinet of Dr Shhh! (silent movies thread)
Posted: Sun May 14, 2023 12:34 pm
by sally
the eagle - clarence brown (1925)
just don't get the adulation of valentino, don't find him attractive at all, not when john gilbert and ronald colman were around instead, madness.
and fuck this movie that makes an empress a bitch just cuz hollywood can't handle powerful older women. creepy film.
Re: The Cabinet of Dr Shhh! (silent movies thread)
Posted: Sun May 14, 2023 10:49 pm
by Lencho of the Apes
sally wrote: ↑Sun May 14, 2023 12:34 pm
the adulation of valentino
Maybe it was really successful merchandising? I just saw Cobra, and there were title cards devoted to selling the idea of how desirable and "magnificent" he was. (Well, maybe only one title card...
Re: The Cabinet of Dr Shhh! (silent movies thread)
Posted: Mon May 15, 2023 10:52 am
by sally
cool, passing on cobra then! one less 1925 bookmark to mull over...
un mariage au revolver - jean durand (1912)
one of durand's less inspired westerns but still nice to see joë hamman here again after last watching him much older in the 1931 erl-king
Re: The Cabinet of Dr Shhh! (silent movies thread)
Posted: Mon May 15, 2023 5:52 pm
by sally
this is very cute, a 1925 homemade advertisement for a novel his wife had written, from emile gaudu, a cine-mad amateur (he has lots more films) based in that most cinematic of 1920s locales, bretagne
https://www.cinematheque-bretagne.bzh/b ... -0-12.html?
Re: The Cabinet of Dr Shhh! (silent movies thread)
Posted: Wed May 17, 2023 7:04 pm
by sally
Re: The Cabinet of Dr Shhh! (silent movies thread)
Posted: Thu May 18, 2023 12:29 pm
by sally
Re: The Cabinet of Dr Shhh! (silent movies thread)
Posted: Sun May 21, 2023 8:12 pm
by sally
Re: The Cabinet of Dr Shhh! (silent movies thread)
Posted: Thu May 25, 2023 5:31 pm
by ole dole doff
The transition to the new technology, however, did not take place without resistance. One of the most prominent public intellectuals of the period Pavlos Nirvanas, who wrote the script for Gaziadis’ The Storm and Astero and who had a persistent interest in cinema, declared in frustration:
The characters in [silent] films not only talk but they talk in a special way. First, they don’t say nonsense, as do for example characters in the theater. Further, they never babble on about useless issues, they don’t exhibit stupid wit, don’t make gross jokes, and don’t shout out stupidities under the pretense of philosophizing. And yet, they communicate with each other perfectly . . . Watch two lovers on the screen: you think that they speak the language of angels never heard before by human ears. When the screen takes on the responsibility of informing us in writing about what they say to each other, the viewer is taken over by disgust. For this reason, the worse a movie is the more written text it presents us with. The best movie is the one which contains the fewest possible written expressions and lets us communicate without mediation with its heroes.
Re: The Cabinet of Dr Shhh! (silent movies thread)
Posted: Thu May 25, 2023 6:59 pm
by Zynab
Wow everyone has been watching so many good silents while I've been gone! I myself recently watched Kult Ciala (1930) which made for a hazily evocative midnight viewing experience, though the rip was quite pixelated and generally of low quality. The love triangle story was very Lubitsch (without the humor) and the execution was very Gustav Machaty (in a diluted way). The film is worth a look but only if you're running out of erotic melodrama silents to watch, imo (if that's even possible).
I also watched these lovely fragments of Bertini and Menichelli films last night. I especially liked Mariute! La Bertini's face...always a sight to behold.
https://player.vimeo.com/video/11995566 ... a3</iframe>
https://player.vimeo.com/video/12876943 ... cc</iframe>
Also I'm kind of sad you guys don't like Rudolph Valentino / his films ;__; He's close to my heart as one of the first movie stars I loved when I was getting into silents and classic Hollywood as a young teenager. One of my most precious cinema-related memories is being given a little flipbook of frames from The Eagle, showing him dancing, when I was 13, at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Cobra is literally my favorite movie of his! I think he and Nita Naldi are absolutely smoldering in it...so beautiful. I plan to rewatch soon. I also find Valentino fascinating as the embodiment of 1920s orientalist fantasy. There's a lot to unpack there.
Re: The Cabinet of Dr Shhh! (silent movies thread)
Posted: Thu May 25, 2023 8:31 pm
by sally
visualtraining wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2023 6:59 pm
Wow everyone has been watching so many good silents while I've been gone! I myself recently watched Kult Ciala (1930) which made for a hazily evocative midnight viewing experience, though the rip was quite pixelated and generally of low quality. The love triangle story was very Lubitsch (without the humor) and the execution was very Gustav Machaty (in a diluted way). The film is worth a look but only if you're running out of erotic melodrama silents to watch, imo (if that's even possible).
I also watched these lovely fragments of Bertini and Menichelli films last night. I especially liked Mariute! La Bertini's face...always a sight to behold.
Also I'm kind of sad you guys don't like Rudolph Valentino / his films ;__; He's close to my heart as one of the first movie stars I loved when I was getting into silents and classic Hollywood as a young teenager. One of my most precious cinema-related memories is being given a little flipbook of frames from The Eagle, showing him dancing, when I was 13, at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Cobra is literally my favorite movie of his! I think he and Nita Naldi are absolutely smoldering in it...so beautiful. I plan to rewatch soon. I also find Valentino fascinating as the embodiment of 1920s orientalist fantasy. There's a lot to unpack there.
you can never have enough erotic silent melodramas! thanks for the rec, will definitely get to. and perhaps if i had been inculcated from an early age maybe i could like valentino too, but at 13 i didn't even know any cinema existed (my youth was very farm-based) and nowadays i like em rougher and gnarled
and dammit i wish all the italian archives would coalesce in a meaningful way....i have a mariute bookmarked to watch, it's 28 mins compared to above (looks like the above is the last 10 mins of this one) and is much crappier quality and not coloured. maybe i'll watch the crappy version up to the beginning of the nice one and then switch over
link to mariute - 28 min
Re: The Cabinet of Dr Shhh! (silent movies thread)
Posted: Sun May 28, 2023 3:04 pm
by Zynab
sally wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2023 8:31 pm
and dammit i wish all the italian archives would coalesce in a meaningful way....i have a mariute bookmarked to watch, it's 28 mins compared to above (looks like the above is the last 10 mins of this one) and is much crappier quality and not coloured. maybe i'll watch the crappy version up to the beginning of the nice one and then switch over
Sally thanks so much for the longer version / extra material from Mariute! Had no idea that existed; will definitely be watching soon + looking at the higher quality tinted fragment again. Anything to get a better idea of a film of La Bertini's.
Re: The Cabinet of Dr Shhh! (silent movies thread)
Posted: Sun May 28, 2023 3:04 pm
by Zynab
Re: The Cabinet of Dr Shhh! (silent movies thread)
Posted: Mon May 29, 2023 11:53 am
by ole dole doff
Re: The Cabinet of Dr Shhh! (silent movies thread)
Posted: Mon May 29, 2023 12:21 pm
by sally
Re: The Cabinet of Dr Shhh! (silent movies thread)
Posted: Mon May 29, 2023 2:53 pm
by nrh
Zynab wrote: ↑Sun May 28, 2023 3:04 pm
THE MONSTER is definitely not making my top 20 for 1925 and I would rank it very low in terms of films I've seen from this year at all. I do not recommend it.
i really like this movie even though i think everything you are saying about it completely correct. there is something i find deeply fun about roland west, a combination of naive enthusiasm and pretty decent budgets (the sets are always great) and...eccentric ideas about narrative emphasis and pace that feels pretty singular.
you're definitely right when you say that this feels like it belongs to a different era than 1925, and it gets even weirder when he remakes his mid '20s the bat movie for early sound in 1930 as the bat whispers.
Re: The Cabinet of Dr Shhh! (silent movies thread)
Posted: Tue May 30, 2023 2:21 pm
by sally
manasse - jean mihail (1925)
here's another film that is incredible to see in 1925! the only thing that made it bearable (lol) was the panda eye