The long-running hit Silent Witness triumphed in a head-to-head clash of the crime dramas last month as it edged ahead of Broadchurch.
It could be that Hazanavicius wanted, once again, to channel some of that Old Hollywood big-hearted sincerity — just as he did with his silent-movie triumph The Artist.
Certainly no one has managed her glitteringly mad silent cackle of triumph as the evil Odile savages the prince in "Swan Lake".
One intriguing example of how that situation changed is given in a recent book, "Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth" (Oxford) by Paula Marantz Cohen.
Silent movie The Artist triumphed at both, picking up five Oscars and seven Baftas, including best picture and best actor for Jean Dujardin, while Meryl Streep won for her role as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady.
When it comes to race (or anything important for that matter), cocooning is the last thing we need; for it's within silent darkness that shame triumphs.
Hitting the "cues" continues to be a cause of trepidation and triumph for the silent film accompanist, as many of the musicians at the festival attested.
Silent movie The Artist has triumphed at the Oscars, winning five awards including best picture, best director and best actor for Jean Dujardin.
Only one person in the top seven is ethnically French: the actor Jean Dujardin, whose silent movie The Artist has been a triumph worldwide.
(Kehr) 'TARTUFFE' (Thursday) A new restoration of F. W. Murnau's 1926 silent-film version of Molière's comedy, starring Emil Jannings as the pious hypocrite of the title, will be presented under the sponsorship of the Goethe Institute and the Library of Congress to mark the publication of Peter Kobel's spectacular book "Silent Movies: The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture".
