"I Noticed That You Mentioned Silent Films So I Wanted to Come Over and Explain a Film I am Sure You Have Never Seen Called METROPOLIS" by Berthold Woltze
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When I saw The Passion of Joan of Arc in college (in the 1980s) the 16mm print quality was so very very poor it looked like a surreal occult hallucination beaming through a crystal ball. I've since seen the good print and its a very good movie but a rather different movie ...
"Actually, D.W. Griffith Made a Film Glamorizing the KKK Because He Was So Non-Racist and It's PC College Students Who Are Turning People Against BIRTH OF A NATION" by Jean Beraud
"You Seem to Have Some Knowledge of This Topic So Let Me Butt in With the First Result From a Google Search, Text From Wikipedia and... What is the Hammer For?" by Artemisia Gentileschi
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life,
Yes, I love to hear people try to explain why yellowface makeup and the fetishy murder of an underage character are somehow an apology for a KKK recruitment film. The reach!
Intolerance is interesting in that it is Dog Whistles: The Movie. All the villains are from groups that were the KKK's alternative targets: reformers, Jewish people (written out of the book of Daniel but "they killed Jesus" in the two Biblical sequences) and Catholics (anti-Italian xenophobia)
I like one scene in that fucking movie. ONE. It's not even a scene; it's a moment. The one where the soldier comes marching home and has an awkward meeting with his little sister and (this is the moment) she embraces him and draws him through the doorway. I liked the framing of it. THAT'S. IT.
I'm so glad I learned about this from History of The Silents in elementary school so I could lose all respect when a text book started praising in University.
OhMy God, yes, you put the two words silent and film correctly and made the new word silent film out of it. I will emphasise this positively in your review.
Not trying to be difficult here, but I’m not having any luck with the search options - do you have any opinions (posted to BlueSky as I don’t use Twitter) on Harold Lloyd? Any threads you would be willing to repost?
“You haven’t seen Metropolis unless you saw it on a crt tv mounted on a cart in an unconditioned English classroom playing off a laserdisc, and it had to be the version with the rock soundtrack. Any other experience is invalid.”
Perfection. Recently saw someone point out that she's grabbing her hat pin, and I love to imagine this painting is 30 seconds before that guy realizes he has made A Mistake.
During the pandemic lockdown my SO and I did a bunch of art recreations, we almost did the painting you posted, but we went with this instead and captioned it "Oh great, him again"
"Are You Familiar With a Silent Film Screenwriter Named Jacqueline Quirk? I Stumbled Across Her Name During Other Research and She Sounds Interesting Because She Apparently Abandoned Film for Catholic Advocacy, But Imdb and Wikipedia Have Drastically Conflicting Data About Her" by Edward Volkert
I’m curious if you’re familiar with an early Roscoe Arbuckle film, “The Moonshiners.” It survives in fragments but I think someone in Norway (?) may have compiled them. Any ideas on this?
Would you please comment on actress Esther Ralston? As you probably know, she played the mother in the 1924 Peter Pan, & was only 4 years older than Wendy. I once saw a picture of her (in the curated art at San Francisco airport!) & thought she was so beautiful, & she lived in my town, Ventura, CA.
My father-in-law is the grandson of Fred Niblo Sr. was a prominent American film director, producer, and actor, primarily known for his work in the silent era. He transitioned from a vaudeville and stage career to becoming a successful film director,
with notable films like Ben-Hur, The Mark of Zorro, and The Three Musketeers.
•Silent Era Success and Notable Works:
Niblo directed numerous silent films, including those featuring stars like Douglas Fairbanks, Rudolph Valentino, Greta Garbo, and Norma Talmadge.
His most famous work is arguably the epic silent film Ben-Hur, which was a major box office success.
Other notable films include The Mark of Zorro, The Three Musketeers, Blood and Sand, Camille, and The Temptress.
He worked for Thomas Ince from 1917, then joined Paramount, and eventually MGM.
He was part of the original founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
It makes me so happy that this is now on Bluesky. I had this experience with a man who went on at me about this fantastic British film he thought I hadn't heard of - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, as if British films aren't my obsession and as if I haven't seen it many times 🫠
Hello, I've been looking for Swedish posts, in Swedish.
I'm learning basic Nato Swedish and want to improve my vocabulary. Hope you can suggest something. (Lots on Mastodon but there is no translation function)
Tack sa myket.
Raimund
I'm hoping to at some point make something animated and METROPOLIS-related. I've even come up with a potential intro sequence for a TV series remake in my head that actually bothers to dig into the various themes and get some more depth out of them. 😅
Actually, the films weren’t really silent. They just didn’t have a soundtrack. There would’ve been an orchestra playing. (Says in stentorian Walter pigeon voice a la forbidden planet)
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Great & important film.
Especially relevant again today (given what Project 2025 has planned).
@sandyfukiu.bsky.social
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life,
"No, it's a silent film"
for reasons
Oh my goodness, I laughed till I almost coughed a lung up!
•Silent Era Success and Notable Works:
Niblo directed numerous silent films, including those featuring stars like Douglas Fairbanks, Rudolph Valentino, Greta Garbo, and Norma Talmadge.
Other notable films include The Mark of Zorro, The Three Musketeers, Blood and Sand, Camille, and The Temptress.
He was part of the original founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Wonderful!
https://bsky.app/profile/kipwilliams.bsky.social/post/3lnda4w7kzs2z
I'm learning basic Nato Swedish and want to improve my vocabulary. Hope you can suggest something. (Lots on Mastodon but there is no translation function)
Tack sa myket.
Raimund
https://kinolorber.com/product/made-in-new-jersey-films-from-fort-lee
Gave her a DVD of Metropolis about 10-12 years ago. It’s been her favorite movie ever since.
As evinced by her posters and car decals.