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The silent scene
« Reply #15 on: May 07, 2007, 12:04:44 AM »
Tonights feature is "The Garden of Eden" from 1928.
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The silent scene
« Reply #16 on: May 08, 2007, 01:03:10 PM »
"The Garden of Eden" was a comedy.  I know I haven't seen to many silent movies yet but I'm beginning to think that the silent genre(is that the word I'm searchin for ?) lends itself far better to drama and tragedy than comedy.      I'll reserve my judgment for now in expectation of better sampling to come.
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Re: The silent scene
« Reply #17 on: February 27, 2008, 05:07:29 PM »
I just watched The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1921) for the first time in many years the other night. What a trippy movie! I happened to notice it on the shelf while browsing at the library the other day and picked it up. Aside from its truly weird, non-euclidean stage set, the plot itself is great: a demented doctor and his sideshow "somnambulist" perpetrate a bunch of murders on an unsuspecting town. Good film score, too.
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Re: The silent scene
« Reply #18 on: December 13, 2009, 10:47:56 AM »
Hey, there's a local station outta Pittsburgh that broadcasts the "It's Alive" show every saturday at midnight.  It's a classic horror movie show hosted by a motley crue of freaks and scary lookin clowns and the professor MCsquared.  It's great cause it's all local and they break up the movie with little comedic skits and such and all the commercials during the program are cheesy homemade deals, you know, for Ralph's Army Surplus and the like.  I really like it.  So anyway, they don't usually show silent movies, but I got lucky last night, they featured a silent documentary about the history of witchcraft from 1921 titled "Haxen"  Man it was freakin intense.  All the scenes of witches smearing the flyin ointment over their bodies, and riding their broom sticks over the medieval town by night, the demonic orgies on the mountaintop.  Pretty wild.

Nothin in the world like a good ol' silent movie to watch late at night in the dark.
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« Reply #19 on: December 13, 2009, 11:07:19 AM »
Man!!! I'd like to find a way to tune into this station (aside from moving to Pittsburgh). That sounds great. I used to love the "Ghost Host" program that used to come on channel 45 every weekend, and that was just ordinary horror-flickaj. TV sure ain't what it used to be.....
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Re: The silent scene
« Reply #20 on: December 13, 2009, 12:12:54 PM »
No it sure aint.  The "It's Alive" show is a real throwback to the days before cable.  

I just recently upped my cable.  I wonder if TMC still plays the "Sunday Silent" at midnite.  I'll try to stay awake tonight and find out.

Silent movies rule!
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Re: The silent scene
« Reply #21 on: December 13, 2009, 04:42:27 PM »
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do you think they had silent porn? i mean isnt sound part of the fun? but then again you know they had to! sorry outta left field but a legitimate question lol....


yup, they sure as hell did. way back as far as the Kinetoscopes. Ive seen some pretty hot victorian porn, it's pretty sweet. Some of them are just ladies taking their clothes off, but others show full blown penetration.

Silent porn is great, as I always mute my porn anyway. It does my job for me.


Not sure if you've seen metropolis yet, pirate, but that's pretty good. So was Birth of a Nation, the film singlehandedly responsible for reviving membership in the klan. (seriously). Nosferatu is a must, too.
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« Reply #22 on: July 26, 2010, 06:51:29 AM »
I just watched The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1921) for the first time in many years the other night. What a trippy movie! I happened to notice it on the shelf while browsing at the library the other day and picked it up. Aside from its truly weird, non-euclidean stage set, the plot itself is great: a demented doctor and his sideshow "somnambulist" perpetrate a bunch of murders on an unsuspecting town. Good film score, too.
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