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Are there others besides yours truly with classic silents in their home film libraries or who attend silent film festivals? For instance, has anyone else purchased the recently released 11 DVD set "The Art of Buster Keaton" or the newly restored "Diary of a Lost Girl" directed by G. W. Pabst, starring Louise Brooks ('29)? Carl Theodor Dreyer's "Passion of Joan of Arc" ('28)? ...Von Stroheim? ...Douglas Fairbanks? ...Valentino? ...Mary Pickford?Cheers,
AuPh
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including all three box sets of The Art of Buster Keaton, the Les Vampires box set, Slapstick Encyclopedia set, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, and many others. I am acquiring other titles now on DVD also. I have been acquiring films somewhat faster than I can watch them, unfortunately.I've watched Vol. 2 of The Art of Buster Keaton, and while I don't find them as funny as some more modern comedies like Blazing Saddles or Caddyshack, the films were extremely interesting and well made. The thing I most enjoy about silent films is that it takes you back to a very different era and gives perhaps the best insight available into the way life was 75-90 years ago. Getting a glimpse of the first attempts at serious filmmaking is fascinating, at least for me. I find watching older films like this quite sobering also, as virtually everyone you see in them is long dead.
However, there are some exceptions, such as Lillian Gish passing away relatively recently in 1993 at the age of either 99 or 100 (she was born in 1893). Mary Pickford was born in the same year and died over 20 years ago now in 1979 when she was in her mid 80's. A more typical example would be someone like W.C. Fields, who died over 50 years ago now in 1946 (he was born in 1879).
Todd
Count me in, I love silent films. New York City residents - which i was until 2 years ago - are fortunate to have silent films screened on a regular basis by theaters such as the great great Film Forum. They even have an excellent pianist who accompanies many of the screenings live in the theater. I was privileged to see series on Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, D.W. Griffith, and many others. I think I've seen everything silent Keaton did including his shorts with the sadly under-rated Fatty Arbuckle. My new home, Boston, isn't so hospitable to a silent film buff.
Some of them I have,but I must say, even I have seen most,I prefer talkie,even as the first Hitch, with a very primitive sound system...of course the famous one like The kid,Potemkin or Diary...are un-thinkable with tone...
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