#silent comedy-drama

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Gilbert Roland and Clara Bow in Call Her Savage

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Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton's "The Haunted House" February 10, 1921.

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Happy Birthday Keira 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

Merch 26,1985

Buon Compleanno 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

26 Marzo 1985

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The Gold Rush (1925)

No matter the era or setting, the leading lady in a Chaplin film always looks like the same flapper archetype. A little out of place in the rough Yukon Territory with her perfectly coiffed curls and sequined slip dresses, Georgia is the apple of the Tramp/Lone Prospector’s eye. Directorial indulgence has been a thing since the start of cinema, as Chaplin’s penchant for his down-on-their-heels self-insert characters ending up with the pretty lady in the end, but it’s nowhere near as ridiculous as, say, Quentin Tarantino’s thing for feet, which nears the point of self-parody with Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. Put some shoes on, Margot Robbie! Perhaps the key to “getting away with it” is that Chaplin’s Tramp persona is such an endearing figure. Endless pratfalls prove Chaplin’s genius for physical comedy: he’s nearly blown out of a cabin by a strong wind, yet can also be light as a feather and stiff as a board when a chance at a hot breakfast is on the line. His desire for the attention of the leading lady isn’t creepy because he constantly disarms himself with everything, even the most simple task like keeping baggy pants up, proves difficult. There is also a poignancy to the Tramp, here exemplified in his loneliness. Entering the narrative as a solitary figure, almost any encounter he has with others seems to go wrong. Big Jim, starving in the storm-swept cabin with the Tramp, starts to see his fellow captive as a tasty chicken (though they eventually get over that). And most poignantly, the Tramp spends a New Year’s Eve alone after Georgia and company don’t follow up on their plans. Fantasy of company, merriment, and a dinner roll dance fades away to a lonely and cold cabin where the candles burn low and the party crackers go un-popped. Sure, he ends up a millionaire in the end AND gets the girl, but he has to go through quite the ordeal to realize these, and even slips on the stairs on the way to take his last photograph.

While Max Terr’s score for the 1942 re-release of the film garnered him Oscar attention, Carli Elinor’s original setting is truly something special. Combining cheekily rewritten extracts from the classical canon (and some not adjusted at all, as with Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Flight of the Bumblebee”), it creates a lush and romantic world for the Tramp to inhabit, tinged with frost. One of the highlights has to be the New Years Eve sequence, a warm chorale trading off between powerful brass and intimate woodwinds as the film cuts between the boisterous party and the Tramp’s lonely cabin, before dissolving into a version of “Auld Lang Syne.” This lacks the joy of something like its appearance in the end of It’s a Wonderful Life, instead introspective and small.

THE RULES

SIP

The word 'lone' appears in an intertitle.

The Tramp takes a fall.

Someone gets blown through a door.

BIG DRINK

Iris in or out on a scene.

Big Jim hallucinates something.

A new kind of animal appears for the first time.

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The Silent Criminal | S01E02

Chinese Drama - 2020, 13 episodes

EP:- 1 : 2 : 3 : 4 : 5 : 6 : 7 : 8 : 9 : 10 : 11 : 12 : 13

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10 Of My Favorite Films !!

The Lion King (1994)

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2. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)

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3. The Breakfast Club (1985)

4. The Fly (1986)

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5. STAR WARS: Revenge of the Sith (2005)

6. The Thing (1982)

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7. Aliens (1986)

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8. A Silent Voice (2016)

9. The Notebook (2004)

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10. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004)

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Hundreds of Beavers (2024) review

This is cinema.

Plot: A drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.

Can we just take a moment to appreciate the greatness that is this film’s poster! Very reminiscent of the poster for the 1963 epic comedy It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, it truly encompasses the full scale cartoonish madness of the movie, and honestly is a piece of art in itself. As for the movie itself? Yeah, it’s fricking awesome!

This comes to us from director Mike Cheslik and co-writer Ryland Brickson Cole Tews (by the way holy Moses what a cool name that is!), the pair who gave us the Tews-directed Lake Michigan Monster, a bonkers little indie film that’s a mix of Life Aquatic and The Lighthouse and is immensely entertaining and stupid. What I like about these guys is how they fill their micro-budget productions with so much creativity, humour and visual inventiveness, and it really puts a lot of modern day Hollywood pictures to shame. These guys are great and so when Hundreds of Beavers popped up on my Letterboxd recommendations, it was a no brainer - I had to seek out this movie!

Hundreds of Beavers echoes the structure of video games, especially RPGs. The central character starts out as an absolutely numpty loser, and then as the film progresses he by trial and error improves his craft to become a skilful and talented trapper. This is reminiscent of how in a video game when your first start you’re essentially useless and crap at everything, but as you level up you become an utter boss. Take Resident Evil for example. In the beginning you struggle to defeat a single zombie. Chances are on your first few playthroughs you’ll die like a little b**ch. Talking from experience here, I remember that first village fight in Resident Evil 4! Then by the end you’re drilling through hordes with unlimited ammo and rocket launchers with super high HP and literally nothing can stop you. With Hundreds of Beavers it’s the same. The first part of the film the poor chap can’t even kill a single animal, let alone a beaver. By the end though he’s engaging in an impressive battle of fisticuffs with crowds upon crowds of beavers. I mean, not really a spoiler to say that there are loads of beavers in this film. Not just a hundred, we’re talking thousands!

That brings me to one of the biggest surprises of this film - there’s actually a fully fledged story here. Like yes the narrative exists entirely for the purpose of throwing as many ridiculously nuts slapstick gags in our faces at a rapid speed of a joke every second, but they are held together by a cohesive narrative. The main character Jean Kayak (brought to life by a superbly committed performance from Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, again, love the name) goes through a significant growth throughout the movie, and his mission to get the girl is as timely and charming as ever. I must say it took me about 20 minutes to properly get into the movie, but once I got to the level of whackiness it was going for I was engaged throughout.

So the visuals. Filtered throughout with a surreal black-and-white grainy filter, this plays out like a live-action cartoon in the vain of Looney Tunes or Tom & Jerry. The stylistic choice that really makes this movie so unique is that the overwhelming majority of animals that Jean comes across are played by actors in full sizes costumes. Yep, it’s a bunch furries alright. Smaller animals such as birds and fish appear as little puppets, but all the larger animals are indeed played by actors in suits. You’d expect a gimmick like this to lose steam after a while, however the funny thing about Hundreds of Beavers is that it manages to consistently stay hilarious throughout, and in fact gets progressively crazier as it goes on. The final 20 minutes are truly fantastic, with the creators throwing every creative idea and visual gag they could possibly whip out of their books in your face. This movie could have easily ended up feeling like a stretched out SNL sketch, but luckily the creators share so much ambition to allow this movie to flourish in its endless creativity. Charlie Chaplin would be proud.

Hundreds of Beavers is one of the most creative, inventive and entertaining comedies of the last decade, and I had a smile on my face from start to finish. From the punchy editing, funny music cues, well-timed cutaway gags, goofy costumes or the endlessly creative deaths, this thing has so much unhinged energy it’s unreal. I can see this not being for everyone, but then again silent slapstick comedy nowadays can be definitely classed as an acquired taste, but I truly believe that everyone would find at least some part of this film amusing. In my eyes, this is a comedic marvel. Yeah, f*** those beavers!

Overall score: 9/10

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On February 28, 1929, The Kid was re-released in Hungary.

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Chaplin/Keaton Part X: Limelight (1952) and Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)

Each in its own highly idiosyncratic way, these movies are about looking back. Chaplin’s intent for Limelight is obvious. It’s the patently autobiographical story of an aging vaudevillian in the 1910s. Chaplin simultaneously brings to this setup a sense of nostalgia for the era in which he got started as a comedian and an awareness that he himself may be aging out of relevance. Meanwhile, Keaton,…

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MOVIE INFO: DOG lives in Manhattan and he’s tired of being alone. One day he decides to build himself a robot, a companion. Their friendship blossoms, until they become inseparable, to the rhythm of 80’s NYC. One summer night, DOG, with great sadness, is forced to abandon ROBOT at the beach. Will they ever meet again? REVIEW: Neon Pablo Berger’s Robot Dreams is a visually stunning,…

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Day 17!!!! It’s a Thursday! So it’s a FOURTH GAME!!!! And that fourth game is Silent Hill 4: The Room! Come! Watch! Join us tonight for the live watch!

https://youtu.be/2NFFPkZbPPw?si=1VAk9qAzk8dfIBt1

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07/31.

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100th Anniversary Movie Festival: Souls for Sale (1923)

Title: Souls for Sale Release Date: March 27, 1923 Director: Rupert Hughes Production Company: Goldwyn Pictures Summary/Review: Remember “Mem” Steddon (Eleanor Boardman) makes the quick decision to marry Owen Scudder (Lew Cody), but as their train passes through the desert on the way to Los Angeles, she gets a bad feeling about him and abandons the train.  Good thing too, because Scudder is a…

[hanthecannibal]

watching a bunch of jdramas my friends recommended and they're amazing!! incredible quality and storyline!!! but i miss the style of thai dramas soo much they're just so over the top and fun and i miss them lmao where's the cheesy sound effects!!! where's the obviously shoehorned in product placements!!! its been nearly a whole series without one unnecessary singing scene!!!

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The Silent Criminal | S01E06

Chinese Drama - 2020, 13 episodes  

EP:- 1 : 2 : 3 : 4 : 5 : 6 : 7 : 8 : 9 : 10 : 11 : 12 : 13  

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Little Annie Rooney (1925) / Silent Comedy Drama Film / Mary Pickford, William Haines