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Fun Stuff => ENJOY => Topic started by: cheesepie on 02 Apr 2006, 20:02
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I recently bought Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali's Un Chien Andalou, and L'Age D'Or by the same guys for my girlfriends birthday.
I heard they were amazing and she mentioned Salvador Dali films once, but I don't know anything about silent films at all. I know she loves them though.
Was this a good idea for films? Should I have gotten other films? What are some other good silent films anyway?
thanks!
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I really like Un Chien Andalou (Although techincally you can watch it on the internet pretty easily, although having these things o DVD is nice). I haven't seen L'Age D'Or.
I'm assuming she likes the crazy surrealist films, which totally makes your girlfriend a keeper.
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Yeah... it says on the back of the DVD of L'Age D'Or that it"was denounced by Mussolini's ambassador, earned its backer a threat of excommunication and was banned by the French Police all within two weeks of its release" in 1930. I can't wait to see this
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Un Chien Andalou is a visual assault. It is intense. And one of my favourites but I am more a fan of the Keaton and Chaplin films and the old suspense silents.
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Un Chien Andalou can be a bit too intense for some people. I usually recommend:
Metropolis
Sunrise
Pandora's Box
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
A Fool There Was
Nosferatu
The Lodger (Hitchcock silent)
Intolerance
Battleship Potemkin
Birth of A Nation
Any and all Keatons and Chaplins.
I could recommend more if you'd like.
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thats an excellent list!
i remember watching Nosferatu in an media studies lesson back in school and cringing at the fact that some of the other people in the class couldn't quite grasp the concept of a movie with no sound
Battleship Potemkin
in may i'm going to see the pet shop boys perform a live score to this with an orchestra and full light show spectacular in a working ship yard, sounds like it could be utterly immense.
Metropolis
there was an radio play adaptation of that last week, but i missed it :(
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Nosferatu is great and is one of the few silent films I actually bought.
Has anyone seen the version where the soundtrack is done entirely with Type O Negative songs?
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I own it and love it. There's a few dodgy bits, but some of the synching is glorious. It also totally manages to make the speed-up effects less cheesy. Nosferatu is one of my favourite films anyway
@Chupones list:
"MY UNCLE WAS BEST FRIEND WITH HITLER
HE HAD SOME COOL FOOTAGE OF DACHAU
I WAS WATCHING AMERICAS FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS ON DUST
AND SENDT SOME FOOTAGE TO THAT FUCKING GAY SHOW
I SENT CONCENTRATION CAMP FOOTAGE TO AMERICAS FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS
I SENT CONCENTRATION CAMP FOOTAGE TO AMERICAS FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS
I DIDN'T WIN THE $10,000
SO I SENT INTERMENT CAMP FOOTAGE
I DIDN'T WIN AGAIN
SO I SENT BIRTH OF A NATION"
Yeah, yeah, I know it's historical importance in film-making, the innovation and so forth, but it is such a hateful film.
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Which movie are we talking about there? Birth of a Nation? With the Klu Klux Klan Saving the poor white woman from the crazed negroes? We totally watched that in my Drama class when covering Film history, and laughed like crazy.
Actually, we watched Nosferatu there too. Because my teacher is ace.
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i've wanted to see Un Chien Andalou for a long time and have never gotten around to it. I've heard good things though.
but i CAN second Nosferatu because that is a cool ass movie.
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You can see it on the intra webs if you look a bit. Wikipedia has a link to it somewhere if you search for it and check the external links.
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http://www.archive.org/details/ChienAndalou
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Exactly.