Back with a bang: silent films.(Arts, Books and Sport)
Economist (US), The, November, 1995
Silent films are experiencing a revival in the 1990s. Motion pictures acquired sound in 1927, and silent films slipped into relative obscurity. However, renewed interest in silent films began in 1980, with the showing of 'Napoleon,' and has grown rapidly.
SILENT cinema, an art form that was swept away by the advent of talkies in 1927, is staging a surprising comeback in the 1990s. Not at multiplexes but wherever, in this centenary of the birth of the movies, modern film buffs gather to celebrate its achievements.
Lately, they have been flocking to Pordenone, a small provincial town near Venice, which every year holds the world's only festival devoted exclusively to silent cinema. For the past 14 years, fans from San Francisco to Tokyo, from London to Beijing have...
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