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Sunrise (1927) just entered the public domain, it won at the first Academy Awards for Best Unique and Artistic Picture
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It’s also the first movie Louis (Brad Pitt) watches in a theater in Interview With A Vampire.
Janet Gaynor’s performance is mesmerizing.
Easily in my top 5 of movies that feature a man threatening to strangle his wife to death but then she forgives him after learning the Power of Love™
What’s the best place to watch silent movies of the era?
This one’s really quite good. Light on plot but the vibes and the visuals are excellent.
And when they stopped having two best picture categories the next year, “Unique and Artistic Picture” is the one they should have kept.
F. W. Murnau was a truly brilliant filmmaker.
It is arguably the greatest film ever made. Silent cinema has been loosing ground over the past few decades. Sunrise is still a great film and certainly appears on many top 10 lists. I often recommend it to people who are interested in silent cinema.
I look forward to a revitalization of old movies in our lifetime that enter the public domain– this will mark a new era of accessible content/unproprietary history that can be explored, evaluated, and consumed by new generations who have been previously frozen out from experiencing our shared legacy.
Most critics still think The Passion of Joan of Arc is the greatest silent film.
I appreciate the special effects but the plot is too problematic for me.