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 Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 7:22 am Post subject: Best books on silent movies?
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Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:52 am Post subject: Re: Best books on silent movies? [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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Books are nice and I have a few, but it reminds me how fortunate we
are today to be able to actually view so many varied silent features
today (both at cinemas and at home).
We can thank our lucky stars for Brownlow, Shepard and the many others
who have devoted their lives to bringing us such a rich treasure to
behold.
Then there are the talents of Rodney Sauer and others like the very
young Garth Neustadter (did you hear his score for "The White Sister"?),
who bring a richness to these films through their musical talents.
There was a time when all you could have done was read about these
classics.
When I was a teenager back in the 1960s, watching "Silent's Please" (a
weekly series on television about silent films), I never dreamed that
years later, I would have seen most every single picture they featured,
and many others that I had never heard of.
We are truly fortunate.
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Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:28 pm Post subject: Re: Best books on silent movies? [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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I would add to that list Kevin Brownlow's The Parade's Gone By.
It's astonishing to think he was just some 20-something year old kid
when he wrote that.
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Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:51 pm Post subject: Re: Best books on silent movies? [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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>From: traviseleblanc DeleteThis @gmail.com (LeTrav)
>I would add to that list Kevin Brownlow's The
> Parade's Gone By.
>-Travis
You don't have to, it the forth book in the list. |
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Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:26 pm Post subject: Re: Best books on silent movies? [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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On Sep 27, 6:22 am, ams <rca... RemoveThis @live.com> wrote:
> Here's one person's opinion:
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> Amazon.com:http://xrl.us/BestSilent
Good list! |
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Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 7:37 pm Post subject: Re: Best books on silent movies? [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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On Nov 4, 3:26 pm, tribune <callist... RemoveThis @rocketmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 27, 6:22 am, ams <rca... RemoveThis @live.com> wrote:
> > Here's one person's opinion:
> > Amazon.com:http://xrl.us/BestSilent
> Good list!
Arthur Knight's classic 'The Liveliest Art' (1957) should not be
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