December 2011
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"There's a renewed interest in silent films":... →
theloudestvoice:
“For, as the late silent historian William K. Everson insisted, “this was not a shoddy little flickering art medium, not the primitive forerunner of anything. This deserves to be seen as a completely separate art, something unique and full blown.” Added Kevin Brownlow, one of the great living authorities on the medium, “they were the movies until sound came in; calling them...
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I really hate it when people say "even though...
oldfilmsflicker:
you don’t say stuff like that about old books or old painting or old poetry.
what the hell makes film any different?
It’s the same with music though (probably even worse)… I hate that, too. Movies and non-classical music are sort of seen as “lower” arts and I don’t know why…
