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In Reply to: RE: Not so great list Harmonia! posted by patrickU on September 14, 2008 at 03:10:58

See Audiophilander's post below. As great as the work is, it's probably not the gateway to a love for silent film for most viewers. Melies must be seen by all serious film students, but the works require context to be fully appreciated.
Vigo - he made only one or two silent shorts to the best of my knowledge. In trying to recommend silent masterpieces, Vigo's splendid doc on Nice doesn't exactly spring to mind, andmay be hard to find. If we're talking early sound classics then his L'Atalante is a must see masterpiece of the thirties.
Luis Bunuel - a great filmmaker, but again, for a neophyte, perhaps a second course rather than the introduction. He made only one silent anyway, the famous surrealist manifesto Un chien andalou, and that with Dali. All 15 minutes of it. His second film and first feature was a sound film, L'Age d'or, also with Dali.

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RE: Didn't! - patrickU 04:00:48 09/15/08 (2)
Vigo- de Nice is even better you can think of.
It is a poem.
So true-My hometown.
" Mieux vaut une t�te bien faite qu'une t�te bien pleine."
- Ah... - Harmonia 10:54:55 09/15/08 (1)
  Ah...that is a poem to Nice.
  
  What a lovely place it is.
  - RE: Ah... - patrickU 11:30:06 09/15/08 (0)
    It is still a little, until today.
    A critical, burlesque sometime but so true to Nice.
    He put the essence of that town into moving pictures.
    " Mieux vaut une t�te bien faite qu'une t�te bien pleine."
RE: Didn't! - patrickU 01:07:12 09/15/08 (2)
I fully agree with you. Yes I do.
With the exception of le chien Andalou a masterpiece.
" Mieux vaut une t�te bien faite qu'une t�te bien pleine."
- Maybe not precisely... - Harmonia 10:52:16 09/15/08 (1)
  ...a full artistic masterpiece, in the sense of a Sunrise or Passion of Joan Of Arc. But it's a landmark in non-narrative film and important in manyw ways,. Certainly a manifesto.
  
  As a thumb in the eye of the establishment, it is a masterpiece of provocation.
  - RE: Maybe not precisely... - patrickU 11:28:03 09/15/08 (0)
    A masterpiece is a masterpiece.
    Some time a short one is easier to go on as an long.
    But, of course you are right.
    " Mieux vaut une t�te bien faite qu'une t�te bien pleine."

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