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- The Artist became the first silent film to triumph at Hollywood's highest honors since the original Oscar ceremony 83 years ago. The film's lead actor Jean Dujardin also took home an Academy award for best actor while Michel Hazanavicius, the film's director, also won.
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Nov 26, 2011 · Surprisingly, director of photography Guillaume Schiffman shot the film in color because today’s black and white is too sharp, not grainy enough. He used unusual filters to diffuse the whites...
The silent movie, argues the director, is “a universal language. It’s a sensual experience, like music or paintings.” The film has already seduced the cinephiles and, of course, the French.
The Artist: Directed by Michel Hazanavicius. With Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell. When George, a silent movie superstar, meets Peppy Miller, a dancer, sparks fly between the two.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Michel Hazanavicius
- 2012-01-20
Nov 26, 2011 · Can you talk about immersing yourself in the silent movie form and how that informed the creative choices you made? HAZANAVICIUS: First of all, it was not an idea, it’s very different.
Director Michel Hazanavicius had been fantasizing about making a silent film for many years, both because many filmmakers he admires emerged in the silent era, and because of the image-driven nature of the form.
Dec 21, 2011 · He would indeed have made a great silent star. His face is almost too open and expressive for sound, except comedy. As Norma Desmond, the proud silent star in “Sunset Boulevard,” hisses: “We didn’t need dialogue. We had faces!” Dujardin’s face serves perfectly for the purposes here.
Feb 17, 2012 · On the surface The Artist, directed by Michel Hazanavicius, is an ode to a simpler time in movie-making history. Set in 1927 Hollywood at the dawn of the talkies, the black-and-white silent movie tells an old-fashioned love story with plenty of heart and just as much style.
