Some early experiments aside, cinema as we know it began in 1893. So that's 126 years, or 12.6 decades. To have an informed opinion of the medium, we should only allow around 8.3% of our viewing to come from the current decade.
Some early experiments aside, cinema as we know it began in 1893. So that's 126 years, or 12.6 decades...
Lincoln Baker
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Isaac Smith
ok
Brayden Anderson
Early film is too abstract and weird, usually I just can't get into it. The last silent film I enjoyed was about a guy who pretends to have no arms in a circus and steals some other guy's girl. While the acting was over-the-top and some scenes were way too fucking long, I thought it was a really good film.
Parker Cook
That's all very well cunts, but just don't go forgetting who invented feature length films.
Spoiler alert - It's pic related.
James Richardson
The Unknown with Lon Chaney, very much kino indeed
Easton Carter
Is that early capeshit?
Wyatt Brown
So? I dunno what to do with your patrician statement. It's for an incel club admission, where is located? in a treehouse or a garbage dump? Tell us more
Landon Clark
that's an amazing body
Christian Wright
Train yourself to get into it. Anything worth doing requires mental effort.
Ian Price
What a woman Crawford was.
Jacob Morris
So cinema as a whole is just one long shitpost by some emus?
Sebastian Miller
can i have that in centuries?
Christian Stewart
This was very cute
I'll never find a qt3.14 to love ;__;
Brayden Thompson
She makes me rise from my grave, if you know what I mean.
Easton Martinez
Hang in there user, I'm sure she's out there for you!
Connor Butler
>that time you tried to stay awake that time you caught Intolerance late night on TCM
Asher Cooper
"moving pictures" have always been for retards
Gabriel Sanchez
Yeah, if you like men. Get some taste, homo.
Daniel Reed
Excellent post, OP confirmed for straight.
This makes a surprising amount of sense.
Joshua Jenkins
what's the essential 1910s core kino?
Isaac Long
Cabiria.
Wyatt Myers
Griffith, Feuillade, Chaplin, Maurice Tourneur, Yevgeni Bauer, Wiene's Caligari.
Nathaniel Powell
You can literally watch it on it's wikipeadia page
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James Price
The Outlaw and His Wife by Victor Sjöström.
Landon Wright
If you want eye strain, sure.
Oliver Sullivan
Sounds based. How does it compare to Cagliostro, Phantom Carriage and He Who Gets Slapped?
Oliver Williams
It's major, on the level of Phantom Carriage. I'd rank both above He Who Gets Slapped, though I need to see that again. Not aware of a Sjöström film called Cagliostro.
Oliver Lopez
So this is the original "we live in a society" virgin vs the bareback rider chad film?
Gabriel Morales
I was sure there was one but I looked it up ust now and sure enough there isn't. I think I was mixing up The Castle of Cagliostro with The Monastery of Sendomir.
Yeah, I guess so. It would make a good double bill with Tod Browning's Freaks.
Jeremiah Price
>tfw you fall in love with someone who was your age almost 100 years ago
It's a temporal kind of feel
Seeing her move on the screen, seeing her smile, all of it warms my heart in a way I feel is not possible anymore. I love her so fucking much it hurts.
Jaxson Murphy
got a favorite scene/clip? I'd like to know more.
Eli Ramirez
Gloria Swanson was a famous hollywood star in the 20's who later on disappeared from the spotlight until her magnificent return as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard. That entire film is my favourite of hers and what made me adore her, but it's only now that I've gone back to her earlier years that I've started to discover her enchanting beauty and acting on a level above pure admiration.
Here's a scene from the unfinished film Queen Kelly, where she (a nun) meets her beloved (the prince) who already has a wife he doesn't love:
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I especially love how she emotes. She's more expressive than most actresses from that era in my opinion, often with a sly smile or a smug grin.
Ryder Davis
>The Monastery of Sendomir
Ah, I haven't seen that.
Nathan Smith
I can dig it.
Blake Reyes
If you haven't seen Sunset Boulevard yet, I can't recommend it enough.
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Asher Martinez
>The Unknown
Thanks! I couldn't for the life of me remember the name.
Ryan Reed
It's alright.
Which Chaney was best Chaney?
Kayden Hall
CATHOLIC SCHOOLGIRLS HAVE THROWN AWAY THEIR MASCAAAARA
Connor Gutierrez
There are thousands more films being made in the last few decades than in the 1900s, so you're numbers mean nothing
Samuel King
This, there's an enourmous difference in quantity. In addition to that, the majority of really old films are completely or partially lost.
Evan Clark
That's true for the silent era, but there were massive amount of releases at least from the 1940s on.
Hunter Ortiz
Talkies are a cute novelty but the experiment has long outstayed its welcome.
Adrian Lopez
I unironically think silent films should come back. Not that they need to be a common "genre" or whatever, but it would be fun if a few were made every once in a while. I think it could become a successful niche, they're so different. Audio was a technical improvement but it brought with it drastic changes to how the story is told, the way actors act etc. I'd love to see more of both rather than just the one we have now.
Leo Hughes
Everything before the 1980s was boring pretentious garbage so who gives a fuck?
John Morris
This makes no sense because there are vastly different numbers of films being released in different decades. For one thing, inasmuch as narrative feature = film, the first fully surviving narrative feature isn't until the early 1910s.
You can probably watch every surviving narrative feature from the 1910s in a week.
This. Why do we still have a decent amount of people working with black and white films but absolutely no silent features?
Noah Ramirez
But have they chained themselves to the axles of big Mack trucks?
Owen Parker
>GRIFFITH!!!!
Chase Lewis
what's going on here?
Andrew Rivera
Who is that literal semen demon?