Occasionally, the A student in her could bounce her into strange judgments, as when she championed Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's scarcely endurable "Hitler: A Film from Germany," because she was thrilled to get its obscure silent-film references.
I was admiring the sleazy blues of "Rage of Plastics" in a cab, on the way to the airport, when I caught a line about "the silent spring" — a reference to Rachel Carson's work about the chemical industry and its effects on the environment.
In some cases, such as climate change, the Reef 2050 Plan is silent, instead simply referencing Australia's national efforts on climate change.
Welles staged the play as a period piece, and the movie was intended as an homage to silent cinema, with references to Mack Sennett's Keystone Cops and Harold Lloyd's "Safety Last" — and with the action sped up to resemble silent-film projection — but there are hints of Sergei Eisenstein throughout.
On these, Gonski's terms of reference were silent.
The filmmakers dubbed the cockroach WALL-E keeps as a pet "Hal", in reference to silent film producer Hal Roach (as well as being an additional reference to HAL 9000).
Why or why not? -Should a school be allowed to change the words to "Silent Night," eliminating religious references?
Taking his cue from the Keystone Kops ballet, Mr. Ganakas stages the musical with multiple references to silent movies, complete with title cards and flickering lights (masterminded by the lighting designer Kirk Bookman).
The scene also situates "The Player"—a movie about a studio created on a Hollywood studio lot in film history, with passing references to silent film, forties genre work, the sixties, and, finally, the Japanese, who were then moving in on Hollywood, and are seen looking the studio over.
The scene also situates "The Player" — a movie about a studio created on a Hollywood studio lot — in film history, with passing references to silent film, forties genre work, the sixties, and, finally, the Japanese, who were then moving in on Hollywood, and are seen looking the studio over.
