SDFF Review: Closing Night Selection "The Artist" is a jubilant, powerful love letter to cinema
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Film Rating: A+ Tonight, I fulfilled my lifelong dream of traveling through time. Being a film aficionado, I used this wondrous opportunity to travel back to 1927 and see a movie. Of course, movies back then were shown very differently. Instead of going to a Cineplex, I happened upon an Opera House, where a red carpet had been rolled out in celebration of a new silent film sensation. Inside the Opera House, the screen wasn’t wide, as we are used to today, but square. The film was black and white, and there was neither dialogue nor sound effects; this was a silent film, though a beautiful symphonic score filled the House, enveloping the audience with music that heightened every emotion. This was cinema as I had never experienced before, pure, unfettered, gorgeous, and moving; I can scarcely believe that once upon a time, this was the norm. It was one of the most spectacular cinematic experiences I have ever witnessed, a great use of my lone night of time travel.
SDFF Review: Closing Night Selection "The Artist" is a jubilant, powerful love letter to cinema
SDFF Review: Closing Night Selection "The…
SDFF Review: Closing Night Selection "The Artist" is a jubilant, powerful love letter to cinema
Film Rating: A+ Tonight, I fulfilled my lifelong dream of traveling through time. Being a film aficionado, I used this wondrous opportunity to travel back to 1927 and see a movie. Of course, movies back then were shown very differently. Instead of going to a Cineplex, I happened upon an Opera House, where a red carpet had been rolled out in celebration of a new silent film sensation. Inside the Opera House, the screen wasn’t wide, as we are used to today, but square. The film was black and white, and there was neither dialogue nor sound effects; this was a silent film, though a beautiful symphonic score filled the House, enveloping the audience with music that heightened every emotion. This was cinema as I had never experienced before, pure, unfettered, gorgeous, and moving; I can scarcely believe that once upon a time, this was the norm. It was one of the most spectacular cinematic experiences I have ever witnessed, a great use of my lone night of time travel.