Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 07:03:34 -0800 (PST)
From: rutger h cornets de groot <cornets-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Silent movies (was: Re: today's film students)


--- bmcpher <bmcpher-AT-ulster.net> wrote:
> My suggestion would be to show first a contemporary
> sound film without the sound,
> so that students would begin to understand how much
> of a crutch the soundtrack is
> in 99% of today's films. Then show them a well-made
> silent film.
> Bruce McPherson

Another suggestion would be to show contemporary
movies without dialogue. For example, "Pugni
nell'aria" by Roberto De Francesco, or Hal Hartley's
latest, "Kimono" (both showed in this year's edition
of the Rotterdam International Film Festival). A
somewhat older example is Ettore Scola's great "Le
Bal".
However, there are other options as well. Instead of
showing entire movies, you could select scenes without
dialogue from any great movie, "2001" for instance (to
name just one). Or, you could even take it one step
before that by sampling scenes without dialogue but
with voice-over (Scorsese). And, don't forget Laurel &
Hardy silents and talkies, Chaplin's "Modern Times"...
I'll stop. 

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