Like all former Guantánamo detainees, Mohammed is not allowed to come to the U.S. I had imagined "Habeas Corpus" as a work of silent witness, deriving its power from live streaming, technology, and stillness — a work of equally balanced presence and absence.
Like all former Guantánamo detainees, Mohammed is not allowed to come to the U.S. I had imagined "Habeas Corpus" as a work of silent witness, deriving its power from live streaming, technology, and stillness a work of equally balanced presence and absence.
With its grand cinematography, its built-in social science, and its sense of montage, "Farrebique" most closely resembles a film by Eisenstein; it's almost like a work of Soviet silent cinema without the ideological obligations and overlays, in which actual social science takes the place of political dogma.
For instance Guy Maddin's "Saddest Music in the World," which will be shown this evening at 6 45, is at once delirious, jaggedly satirical and plaintively dramatic, a black-and-white tribute to the overtly ritualized work of silent and early talkie filmmakers.
(Johnson) Last Chance ★ Saâdane Afif: 'L's Bells — The Busker of the Gray Line' (closes on Sunday) Making his New York debut, this Berlin artist displays song lyrics that imply rhythm, melodies and even works of silent sound art and are links in a chain of serial translations and collaborations.
(Cotter) Galleries: Other ★ Saâdane Afif: 'L's Bells — The Busker of the Gray Line' (through July 29) Making his New York debut, this Berlin artist displays song lyrics that imply rhythm, melodies and even works of silent sound art and are links in a chain of serial translations and collaborations.
Hugo is also distinctly nostalgic in tone and features the work of a silent film great.
The film began a cycle of films which Rivette called his "house of fiction" – an enigmatic film-making style influenced by the work of the silent director Louis Feuillade and involving improvisation, ellipsis and considerable narrative experimentation.
Given that she is working with a chorus of silent partners, the result is all the more remarkable.
Her legacy comprises a vast body of silent work, as well as sound-era successes including the sizzling pre-code flick Red-Headed Woman (1932), starring Jean Harlow, and the breakneck cattiness of The Women (1939).
She also explained that in the office where she works, there's a sort of silent discouragement when it comes to taking time off.
