It is a black-and-white silent film, and, of course, Charlie Chaplin was a pioneer of black-and-white silent cinema.

WSJ: Hats Off to a Silent-Film Pioneer

With such disruptive devices as intercutting color and black-and-white footage, parodying silent-film antics, and inserting scenes of youths dancing the twist, Pasolini both affirms the classical grandeur of cinematic modernism and conveys his sense of a time out of joint.

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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.

FORBES: Awards Season Kicks Off With Critics Win for 'The Artist'

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.

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