They've done it again! A new silent film set in black and white and Golden ERA!

[Mr Vim]

Here is the trailer for The Artist, I hope this is out while I'm on vacation so I can see it!

[video=youtube;IzghZWJdMnQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzghZWJdMnQ&feature=player_embedded#at=73[/video]

 

[Chasseur]

Looks great!.
Added bonus, its with the always fun Jean Dujardin. He was in the recent OSS 177 spy spoof series. The first one OSS 117 Cairo: Nest of Spies, its great fun. This film is with the same director, Michel Hazanavicius, who not only makes period films, but he tries to research how they were made and film them like they were in the past. Also with the same lovely Berenice Bejo.

The OSS 117 movies were made in the style (and with 1950s technology and filmmaking techniques) of the first James Bond movies with plenty of homages to both the 1960s spy genre and various Hitchcock films.
[video=youtube;SUpq1PP20CE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUpq1PP20CE[/video]

 

[BinkieBaumont]

'The Artiste' Its stunning, but I rather wish I hadn't watched it as I feel I have seen the whole story!

 

[Mr Vim]

Binkie, that is a good point, it seems to give a lot away, but isn't that how the old trailers used to be?

The outfits look fantastic in this! I neglected to say that earlier.

 

[Miss Moonlight]

Oooh I'll see this! It looks great and I love John Goodman. Exciting!

 

[Girl Friday]

Silent Film a hit at Cannes - The Artist

This looks absolutely fantastic. Filmed in black and white.
http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/trailer-cannes-silent-competition-entry-the-artist

I was surprised to see no one had posted about this yet.

 

[HadleyH]

Thank you very much Girl Friday! I am looking forward to that one!

By the way I just read the Jean Dujardin , the French actor, has just won the best actor award at Cannes :eusa_clap for his role in this film as a silent movie star who falls into depression when "the talkies" begin.

He looks so much like John Gilbert, it's amazing!!! and that's what i love about european filmakers, they cast adults who look like adults in films and not only teenagers like we see in so many american films! I adore european films!

Jean Dujardin in the film "The Artist"

 

[BinkieBaumont]

There have been postings in another thread

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/show...-Golden-ERA!&p=1234013&highlight=#post1234013

[video=youtube;EgAvXlG68Y8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgAvXlG68Y8[/video]

 

[Tomasso]

There have been postings in another thread

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/show...-Golden-ERA!&p=1234013&highlight=#post1234013

I'll have to agree with what Binkie said in the other thread, after viewing the trailer:


'The Artiste' Its stunning, but I rather wish I hadn't watched it as I feel I have seen the whole story!

 

[Mario]

Someome commented that it's a no no to start the trailer to a film that is set in 1927 with mid/late-30's swing music...

 

[Marla]

Making it in black and white was a good choice. Since they didn't have a Hollywood budget it makes the costumes look more convincing than they would in color.

 

[Tomasso]

Someome commented that it's a no no to start the trailer to a film that is set in 1927 with mid/late-30's swing music...

Pedant................

 

[Mario]

Pedant................

It's called knowlewdge... :biggrin:

 

[Tomasso]

It's called knowlewdge... :biggrin:

One can be hamstrung by knowledge while ignorance is bliss....:icon_smil

 

[Mario]

One can be hamstrung by knowledge while ignorance is bliss....:icon_smil

Ah, the song of ignorance: ever so slightly out of tune... shakeshead

 

[Tomasso]

Ah, the song of ignorance: ever so slightly out of tune.

Out of tune!?!? [huh] I sing it like Pavarotti.......

 

[Mario]

Out of tune!?!? [huh] I sing it like Pavarotti.......

Why, of course you do! The out-of-tuneness is absolutely essential to that particular song and in order to sing it properly you'll most definitley need a certain...well...let's call it 'talent'... :whip: :tongue1: