Silent Movie
 Amazon.com essential video: One of Mel Brooks's weaker vehicles, this 1976 feature finds a movie producer (Brooks) deciding that the public is ready for the silent film form again. Reasonably ambitious and promising, the film ultimately doesn't do for [... more]
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Hardy Boys 52 The Shattered Helmet
The Shattered Helmet: This book has lots of action, too much to say. But what I can say is that the plot is superb, especially the Hollywood movies in the book. I like those kind of movies. For example, the best Hollywood cartoon is probably the [... more]
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The Song of the Nibelungs: A Verse Translation from the ...
A fine translation of a great poem: Frank G. Ryder's translation of the Nibelungenlied is the best that I have come across. I first became interested in this epic poem after seeing Fritz Lang's silent movie version. I loved the movie, but there were [... more]
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Twilight
fascinating photos and read: This book is an incredible documentation of community-based art. The artist, Gregory Crewdson, worked over years to unite a small town in the hills of Massachusetts to create art. It's inspiring to find out that the people of [... more]
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Under the Roofs of Paris
From Amazon.com: René Clair's Under the Roofs of Paris is a delightful pastiche of vignettes loosely held together by a creaky plot involving theft, romance, and mistaken identity. Albert loves Pola, who is being romanced by a seedy thief. Albert [... more]
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Charlie Chan: In The Secret Service
My First Charlie Chan movie: "Charlie Chan in The Secret Service" was my first Chan movie. I was impressed with it. My only complaint was the scene in which Chan is riding to the mansion that the inventor was killed in, and is walking up to the [... more]
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Uncle Toms Cabin
From Amazon.com: Harry Pollard's epic 1927 version of Harriet Beecher Stowe's landmark novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was one of the most expensive silent films ever made. James B. Lowe, whose composure, dignity, and gentleness suggest a silent-era Danny Glover, [... more]
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Broken Blossoms
Amazon.com Essential Video: D.W. Griffith was many things: movie innovator, maker of grand statements (The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance being among the biggest of all silent films), the first American superstar director--the Steven Spielberg of his [... more]
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Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari
From Amazon.com: A milestone of the silent film era and one of the first "art films" to gain international acclaim, this eerie German classic from 1919 remains the most prominent example of German expressionism in the emerging art of the cinema. [... more]
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Amphigorey Too
DARKLY WHIMSICAL AND HIGHLY ENJOYABLE: This wonderful second collection contains 20 highly enjoyable stories: THE BEASTLY BABY (a definite Gorey favorite!) about an absolutely abominable baby, you'll be glad to see the end of! THE NURSERY FRIEZE: [... more]
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The Cat and the Canary
From Amazon.com: German horror stylist Paul Leni (Variety) brings his expressionist flourishes to this compendium of haunted clichés, creating one of the most stylish horror movie spoofs ever, a delightful mix of the gothic and the goofy. A greedy [... more]
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Silent Movie
Binding: DVD EAN: 0024543167280 Format: NTSC Release Date: 2006-09-05 UPC: 024543167280 [... more]
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