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The website's critical consensus states, "A crowd-pleasing tribute to the magic of silent cinema, The Artist is a clever, joyous film with delightful performances and visual style to spare." [ 45 ] At Metacritic , which assigns a weighted average rating to reviews, the film received an average score of 89 out of 100, based on 41 critics ...
The Artist is a 2011 French romantic comedy-drama film directed and written by Michel Hazanavicius. [1] The film is set in Hollywood between 1927 and 1932 and focuses on a declining film star (played by Jean Dujardin) and a rising actress (played by Berenice Bejo), as silent cinema falls out of fashion and is replaced by the talkies.
The Artist," as aggressively entertaining as any musical, is measured in its mourning and eclectic in its nostalgia for old movies. There is a bit of music lifted from Bernard Herrmann's 'Vertigo' score, a breakfast-table montage inspired by 'Citizen Kane' and a story line that makes 'The Artist,' in essence, the latest (and also in a way the ...
Uggie and his trainers for the film, Sarah Clifford and Omar Muller, spent three days with the film's star Jean Dujardin to teach the French actor the verbal commands and hand signals Uggie needed in a scene. [4] Because it was a silent film, the trainers could also call out commands while the film was rolling. [8]
Shanks is deaf-mute. Walker speaks little and dies early in the film. Marceau also choreographed the puppet-like movements in the film. 1976: Silent Movie: Marcel Marceau: Marceau pronounces just one word, "non" – the only spoken word in the entire film 1979: Les Îles: Director of the IGN: 1994: Marcel Marceau ou le poids de l'âme
A massive pipe organ that underscored the drama and comedy of silent movies with live music in Detroit's ornate Hollywood Theatre nearly a century ago was dismantled into thousands of pieces and ...
Silent Movie is a 1976 American satirical silent comedy film co-written, directed by and starring Mel Brooks, released by 20th Century Fox in summer 1976. The ensemble cast includes Dom DeLuise, Marty Feldman, Bernadette Peters, and Sid Caesar, with cameos by Anne Bancroft, Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds, James Caan, Marcel Marceau, and Paul Newman as themselves, and character cameos by Harry ...
While introducing the Middle East and North Africa premiere of John Woo’s “Silent Night” at the Red Sea Film Festival, actor Joel Kinnaman emphasized the rare opportunity to have “everyone ...