Just saw "The Artist"

[FSogol]

Wow. Completely floored. Didn't know anyone knew how to make really great movies anymore.

If you like old movies, silent films, or just great cinema, go see it.

[cyberswede]

1. I want to see it!

Not sure if it will come to our market, though.

[applegrove]

2. I have friends seeing it tonight. I just wasn't in the mood for an emotion driven film. I might have

to reconsider when I see them tonight.

[edhopper]

3. I had the same reaction

Brilliant film.

[dipsydoodle]

4. Soundtrack music.

Not sure if used in the film or not but in the trailer they use this or one of the versions anyway. This one of the longer Benny Goodman takes of Sing, Sing, Sing :

[no_hypocrisy]

8. Is the setting of this movie 1937 or around the time of The Crash?

If the latter, the use of postdated music is a serious disconnect for me.

[dipsydoodle]

9. Last Hollywood silent movie was made in 1935

Louis Prima's version of Sing , Sing , Sing was released March '36. Close enough I'd say.

I've yet to see the film so have no notion of when it takes place. If its '37 then the music suffices but if late '20s then maybe Fletcher Henderson maybe would've been better.

[no_hypocrisy]

10. Yeah, Fletch -- or Paul Whiteman.

[dipsydoodle]

11. btw

I only know that Sing Sing is used in the trailer. Its not listed in the film soundtrack. See here : http://www.amazon.co.uk/Artist-Ludovic-Bource/dp/B005LL4U54/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1328982280&sr=1-1

But this is : Duke Ellington Orch. - Jubilee Stomp (1928)

[trumad]

5. Easily the best film of the year...

and Best Actor.

It's one of those movies that when you walk out you say---"I'm gonna buy it".


Jean Dujardin


Bérénice Bejo

[AtomicKitten]

6. I enjoyed it very much.

I heard people walked out demanding their $ back because they didn't realize it was for the most part a silent film. Their loss.

[graham4anything]

7. The Artist is the best film of the year, maybe Top 20 of all time

I did something when the movie ended I haven't done in 40 years.
I stood up and applauded, loudly.Jean Dujardin is BOFFO!!!(and so is James Cromwell)

[Kablooie]

12. It won but it's one of the oddest combination of elements in movie history.

It's a French movie, not American, about the American film industry and filmed entirely in Los Angeles by a French crew.
It's black and white.
It's a 1:66 (old fashioned square format) screen.
It's almost totally silent with cards shown for dialogue.
Doesn't even have sound effects for most of the film.

Very unusual but now in the pantheon of Best Pictures.

And it was a great film!

[FSogol]

13. Also...

First silent film to win since 1927 "Wings"
First b&w film to win since 1993 "Schindler's List"

[mackerel]

14. My sister, who has only recently come to enjoy good film, was stunned by it.

She loved it so much she stayed for the next showing.