The annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival is coming my way in July and it'll take place at the beautiful and charming Castro theater (which comes complete with an organist who plays spirited tunes just before the movies start). It's a great, old place to check out some great, old silent films.
If you think about it, many children's cartoons are like silent films — all expressive movements and grand reactions and not much dialogue, if any. Now as an adult would you seek out a silent film if it were playing in a nearby theater?
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My city has an annual silent film festival and I've seen a few films there. The films are being shown at an open-air cinema (the festival is held in August) and there's live music, so the atmosphere is usually really nice.
1I've never actually seen a silent movie at a regular cinema though.
I would love to. I went to a church movie night once because they were showing The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari with live organ music being played in conjunction with the film. It was fantastic!
2It would be pretty cool, a completely different experience.
3I totally would, I'd love to see a few
4Sure! I've never been to one, but Wall-E was fantastic and that was basically silent.
5Absolutely.
6Love Modern Times-- can't imagine why I wouldn't like a modern silent film!
7Before seeing Robert Downey Jr's Chaplin I think I had only seen parts of The Great Dictator and The Gold Rush, but after being so impressed by his film I went out and rented those two and several more. I would love to see one of them in a big theatre!
8I love Charlie and his loveable tramp. I took a class in college where we spent half of the semester on Chaplin and looooved it. We'd meet every Tuesday evening and watch a couple of his shorts and then a full length movie. Anyone who hasn't seen The Great Dictator (where is mocks Hitler WHILE he was around), then you definitely should.
9lol kscincotta, i hated Wall-E for that movie. Absolutely loved Metropolis though.
10Not a chance
11Depends - if the film is good, yes!
12Yes, definitely! When I was in college, I was the concertmaster of our symphony orchestra and we played the musical accompaniment to the silent film The Phantom of the Opera (1925) and it was SO much fun! It made me want to go to more, but of course they don't all have live musical accompaniment!
13Yes. I used to watch Silent Films on Saturday mornings all the time.
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