The organ will be officially unveiled in October when it will provide live accompaniment to a silent film.
"The Artist" producer Thomas Langmann said the awards attention for the film was especially gratifying given how difficult it was to line up financing for a silent film, a form that went out of vogue more than 80 years ago.
It remains to be seen whether a mass audience will flock to the film though despite the outpouring of critical love. (The film currently earns a 97 out of 100 on Rotten Tomatoes.) No matter what, a silent film is going to be a tough sell.
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Here we have, side by side, a French silent film about Hollywood and a Hollywood movie set in nineteen-thirties Paris, with extended flashbacks to the beginnings of French silent film.
The home had been a former silent film studio, and Mr. Duquette had installed a throne from the Chapultepec Palace in Mexico City.
George Valentin is a famous silent film star, but with the advent of sound and talkies, his career begins to fade.
We watched each other typing and reacting to the words that scrolled next to our images, co-stars in a postmodern silent film.
There was once a small group of apparent political nut jobs in Germany led by a guy who looked like a popular silent film comic.
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At one point, Anaya wears a black body stocking and a white plastic mask, and she looks like some legendary figure from a lyrical silent film.
The property boasts a two-bedroom guesthouse, a state-of-the-art movie theater with a pop-corn machine and a piano for silent film soundtracks, and an antique-panel covered office with soothing waterfalls.
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The New York Film Critics Circle Kicked off the 2011 awards season today by giving top honors to a silent, black and white film about the arrival of talking pictures: The Artist.
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It is a black-and-white silent film, and, of course, Charlie Chaplin was a pioneer of black-and-white silent cinema.
The Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria is housed in a building that was part of a 1920s film studio that made silent and early sound films.
Yet, as a new film, "Silent Conquest, " makes clear, President Obama, from his first months in office, has been enabling in this country an insidious effort by Islamic supremacists to keep us from engaging in speech, videos, training or other forms of expression that offend Muslims, their god, prophet and faith.
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Ms Bruni worked for several years as a super-model, earning accolades from British clothes designer John Galliano who described her in the film as being "like a silent movie actress with her body language - the dress is her script".
Atilla Dorsay, doyen of Turkish film critics, said on Monday he would stop writing film reviews as part of a "silent protest" against the closure.
Maddin has discovered a new kind of cinema, the welding of silent-film techniques, avant-garde imagery, and twenty-first-century technology (there are digital effects smuggled in throughout the picture).
The 1965 "Beach Blanket Bingo, " for example, featured subplots involving a mermaid, a motorcycle gang and a skydiving school run by Don Rickles, and comic touches by silent film star Buster Keaton.
Lucid, sardonic, cinema-centric asides (especially one great set piece involving an aged, hearing-impaired movie technician from the silent-film era) adorn their all-night tangle of intimacy, building to a grungy, furiously self-deprecating .
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