From: lenona321@yahoo.com   
      
   On Friday, December 30, 2022 at 8:17:06 PM UTC-5, Bill Anderson wrote:   
       
   > Next time I see him I will ask about Monty Python. My bet is that he is    
   > unfamiliar with them. As for Harold and Maude? No way. Heck, I almost hit    
   > him with a different movie he has never seen: it’s a wonderful life. But I    
   > had caught most of it on one of the numerous holiday reruns a few days    
   > earlier and I did not want to sit through it again. I described Casablanca    
   > to him and he wants to see it. But he has never seen a silent movie in his    
   > life and I am thinking I want to show him… what? The general? Probably.   
       
   One Week (1920) by Buster Keaton? It's 19 minutes and in the Ty Burr thread, I   
   mentioned a class of 9-year-olds who couldn't stop talking about it.   
      
   In the Roger Corman thread, I mentioned my then 7-year-old niece's reaction to   
   the 81-minute documentary When Comedy Was King (1960). About that one:   
      
   "Culling together footage from features and short comedies of the silent era,   
   this documentary is a showcase for the talents of Charlie Chaplin, Stan   
   Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Buster Keaton, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and lesser-known   
   actors. These slapstick    
   clips, mostly from the 1910s and '20s, find humor in the mundane and the   
   bizarre. In one bit, Chaplin gets in a hilarious bar fight, while another   
   finds Arbuckle coping with the fact that his house is suddenly adrift in the   
   ocean."   
      
   The prequel was The Golden Age of Comedy (1957).   
      
   In the meantime, aside from (obviously) almost anything with Chaplin, Keaton   
   or Lloyd, I would suggest these silents:   
      
   Battleship Potemkin   
   Flesh and the Devil   
   The Iron Mask (about the Three Musketeers, with narration)   
   Lady Windermere's Fan   
   Metropolis    
   Nanook of the North   
   The Passion of Joan of Arc   
   The Patchwork Girl of Oz   
   Phantom of the Opera   
   Robin Hood   
   The Scarlet Letter   
   The Thief of Baghdad   
   Way Down East   
      
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