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“This is the picture that I want to be remembered by," Charlie Chaplin said of his film, "The Gold Rush," when it opened. Subtitled “A Dramatic Comedy,” the film finds Chaplin portraying a lone prospector who searches for love and acceptance in the frenzy of the great Klondike gold rush. The flick contains many of Chaplin’s most celebrated comedy sequences, including the boiling and eating of his shoe, the dance of the dinner rolls, and the teetering cabin.
In just over a week, on Sunday, June 7th, the LA Chamber Orchestra will be doing something pretty cool with the silent film at UCLA's Royce Hall: they'll present the restoration print of Chaplin’s complete 1925 cut of the film with the musical score Chaplin composed for the film’s 1942 reissue.
It's all part of the orchestra's Silent Film Celebration and in honor of that, we're giving away up to 10 pairs of tickets (you can also buy them here, $35 each). To enter our contest, share with us your choice of the following in the comments section: your favorite silent film (you know, like Metropolis) and/or your favorite orchestral film soundtrack (Do you enjoy the classics from the likes of John Williams or Franz Waxman or do you dig the more contemporary workings of Thomas Newman's American Beauty score?).
More details and rules on the contest are below:
- Enter the contest by making a comment on this post. Comments must fit the criteria, stated below.
- The criteria of the comment is that you share either, or both, your favorite silent film or favorite orchestral film composer.
- Only one entry per person is allowed.
- The contest closes at 9:59:59 p.m. on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009.
- Ten qualifying entries will be selected at random and will win a pair of tickets to the June 7th event. Winners will be notified via the e-mail connected to their LAist.com login. They must confirm the receipt of the e-mail by 10:00:00 a.m., Thursday, June June 4th, 2009 or the pair of tickets will go to another winner.
- Tickets will be held at the will-call pick up at the theatre
Good luck and enjoy the show!
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I love Carter Burwell, his work with the Coen Bros is brilliant.
To be completely honest, I don't like silent films one bit. My beloved boyfriend, however, basically thinks they are they end all and be all of movies with Modern Times as one of his all-time favorites.
If I don't win these, I might have to scoop up the money to buy tickets!
My favorite silent film would have to be "The Kid," also a Chaplin film.
I love the John Ford silent film "Hangman's House". With an early appearance by John Wayne before he was John Wayne!
And I agree, I might have to find the money to buy tickets also if I don't win!
My favorite Chaplin film isn't silent - it's "Monsieur Verdoux."
Good entertainment, and a bargain (if I win) in these trying times. I'm a HUGE Chaney fan - so I pick THE UNKNOWN. Fave soundtrack is too difficult to pin down.
Nosferatu. Also The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
Buster Keaton's Seven Chances.
My favorite silent film is Le voyage dans la lune, or Voyage to the Moon. It was released in 1902, and it's only 14 minutes long, but it was the first sci-fi feature. The premise is simple. Scientists make a rocket, go to the moon (landing in the moon's eye) fight off some evil aliens, and come back home. It's pretty cool to watch and was the first blockbuster ever.
The General - Buster Keaton
City Lights would be my favorite silent movie with London After Midnight a close (but diff't second).
My favorite orchestral score would have to be Williams' Raiders of the Lost Ark. With every closing door, the music bounds out in my brain as I try to time my exit/entrance before it closes.
nosferatu is easily my fave silent film. it has been a dream of mine for years to rescore it. some day! :)
Well, it really is Metropolis!
Cecil B. DeMille's The Cheat. Sessue Hayakawa was so great!
I love, love, love, simply love Chaplin's films... they say so much with so little...two of my favorite are "The Great Dictator," which has an astounding speech at the end that still resonates well in today's Orwellian world .... The other is "Modern Times" which made me cry with it's last title card, "Buck up - never say die! We'll get along."
I love chaplin's The Circus though I admit the score was not all that great.
My favorite silent movie experience was watching Metropolis at the silent movie theater when a pianist accompanied the film (the pianist was first accompanied Metropolis back in the 1920s!). But my favorite silent film is "It" starring clara bow.
favorite silent film is could be a tie between Griffith's "Broken Blossoms" and Murnau's "Haunted Castle", but in the end "Haunted Castle" wins.
I'm going to go with Modern Times. Simply hilarious.
I'm going to go with Modern Times. Simply hilarious.
I'm going to go with Modern Times. Simply hilarious.
Im going to have to go with David Shire in The Conversation. If that isn't perfect for setting the tone- I don't know what is
i used to go see silents all the time at Silent Movie Theatre (in the Laurence Austin days) but not so much anymore. this was a difficult question. i do love pretty much anything of Buster Keaton's but would have to go with the ultimate It Girl Clara Bow and Wings.
My all time silent fave is Chaplin's "The Great Dictator", mostly for it's political satire and it's way of poking fun at the powerful.
As far as choosing a favorite musical score or composer, there are so many good scores it would be very hard to choose one. But based upon the quantity and quality of muscial scores from any one composer, I'd have to say Irving Berlin.
Oops! I don't know why I was remembering The Great Dictator as a silent, it was actually Chaplin's first talkie.
I'm surprised with all the film aficionados here that I didn't get called on it.
Anyway, it's def my favorite Chaplin film.
My favorite is Broken Blossoms - Griffith's use of the close up for dramatic tension is well put to use in this film. The closet scene where Lillian Gish is hiding from her father is haunting to say the least.
Favorite composer? I'm going with Lenny Bernstein - I'm beginning to introduce West Side Story to my 10 year old. She's in awe.
harry potter soundtrack by john williams, amazing
Ahhh, Sherlock Jr. starring Buster Keaton. My all time favorite. :)
I have to go with von Stroheim's "Greed"-the ending shot in Death Valley is not to be missed! Raise your hand if you've sat through all 4 hours of the restored print...
Dreyer's version of the Dracula story, Nosferatu. Although I also really dig the creepiness of The Wind. Lillian Gish sells terror without uttering a word.
I discovered Charlie Chaplin when I was 15 years old and really love City Lights.
Favorite silent film: Nosferatu, most definitely!
There is something about Murnau's Sunrise that puts it right up there for me...
The Sheik, without a doubt - Go Rudy!
Favorite Silent Film:
"Napoleon" directed by French director Abel Gance. If you ever have a chance to see it, by all means go. I'll never forget watching it with a live orchestra - you can't believe it was made in 1927. The film was so ahead of its time with handheld camerawork, sharp edits and some beautiful hand tinted scenes. The final reel is shot as a triptych (3 screens) and the images are fantastic. The film is 5 1/2 hours long and every frame is stunning.
Favorite Composer:
Let's just state the obvious fact that Ennio Morricone is God and in a category all by himself. That said, it's very hard to top Elmer Bernstein's score for "The Magnificent Seven" and I love both Vladimir Cosma's score for "Diva" and Rachel Portman's work on "The Cider House Rules", not to mention the late great Maurice Jarre ("Dr. Zhivago", "Lawrence of Arabia"), but the subject is my personal favorite composer and that has to be Gabriel Yared whose work from "The English Patient" to "The Lover" to "Cold Mountain" and so on epitomizes the special duty of film scores which is to somehow enhance without distracting from the story onscreen - but the reason he is tops on my list is for his music for "Betty Blue" which transports me every time I play it - which is often. Hmm, I thnk I'll play it right now...
Hands down my favorite silent film is Bronenosets Potyomkin (Battleship Potemkin) by Sergei Eisenstein
Favorite Orchestral would be the James Bond theme written by Monty Norman
Really want those tickets
Buster Keaton's "Steamboat Bill Jr." is the best - its laugh out loud and the effects are still amazing today and better than a lot of modern CG.
My favorite silent film is A Trip to the Moon by George Melies.
The first silent film I actually paid attention to was F.W. Murnau's "Sunrise". The next was Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights". I can't decide which one I like more! I'm a sucker for Chaplin's nervous breakdown in the latter.
Potemkin. How can you say there's nothing wrong with the meat when there's maggots all over it????!!!!!
Charlie Chaplin's City Lights is a brillant film from the first scene to the last. Erich Wolfgang Korngold--great name for a great composer--check out The Adventures of Robin Hood one of many great Warner Bros. scores.
Nosferatu: I saw it orchestrated outdoors by the Phillip Glass & The Kronos Quartet, and even though it started to rain and the show had to be stopped halfway it was a magical evening.
Close 2nd is Cabinet of Dr. Caligari because it was the first time i was really sucked into a silent film, before it I just "watched movies"
My favorite silent film is Carl Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc.
I like the silent movie called: Daybrake
My favorite silent movie called: Daybreak directed by Sun Yu
My favorite silent movie called: Daybreak directed by Sun Yu
My favorite silent film is Carl Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc.
Jonny Greenwood in There Will be Blood
Guy Maddin's "Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary" is my favorite silent film.
Carl Theodore Dreyer's Vampyr is my favorite silent film.
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
When the Clubfoot Orchestra played a weekend at the Nuart, the best performance/orchestration was for Nosferatu. A vampire stalking to burlesque music = priceless.
Luvs Buster Keaton in "The Cameraman". xo
John Williams - 7 Years In Tibet
Trip to the Moon is my favorite silent film.
is there anything better than Chaplin's "Modern Times"
I'm sure already mentioned, but The General with Buster Keaton is my personal favorite. It's another example of me cutting an 'older' movie a lot of slack, dropping my expectations because I think it won't compare to modern cinema, having to get past the technical inequalities/over the top acting etc. and upon seeing it instantly realizing not only did it not need my handicap, it can stand toe to toe with any comedy ever made and hold its own and then some.
Score wise, not to steal from Jon Brion, but after reading the interview with him I saw the third man again and was blown away by Anton Karas' score. That has the be one of the most ambitious scores ever produced.
currently my favorite composer is Nick Cave. (assassination of jesse james)
Big fan of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis"
DW Griffith's Intolerance is still pertinent. Buster Keaton was a tremendous athlete as well as creative genious. I recommend 'Steamboat Bill'.
I became a fan of "The General" with Buster Keaton while living in Cottage Grove, OR; where the movie was filmed in part.
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I'm going to go with Charlie Chaplin's "The Immigrant."
I'd have to go along with Steamboat Bill Jr. as my favorite silent film. Buster Keaton is the man. As for film score, I've got a lot of favorites. For the sake of picking one, I'll say Thunderball by John Barry.