The Rabbit Room

Go see this movie immediately. Do NOT wait for the DVD. See it in a theater. Best film of the year, and instantly one of my favorite films ever. (Welcome back from the grave, Gene Kelley!)

Best score. Best editing. Best art direction. Best costume design. Best sound design. Best everything.

And the Award for most creative One Minute Review yet goes to… Father Thomas! Well done. I will now go see this film.

Terrific review! Talk about a hook. You’ve put the claws in deep on this one, Tom.

Ha, ha! I like this review, though I must say I still don’t know what the movie is about.

I’m with you Lois.

It was a great film…well acted, well edited…and there were just the right number of title cards…not too many, since you don’t have to know EVERY word spoken in a silent film for it to make sense, but also not too few so that you didn’t know what was actually happening. I give it 2 thumbs up as someone who actually collects silent films and has been watching them since I was in elementary and junior high.

I feel like we should only be allowed to use emoticons to comment on this entry.

Golly, this review is kind of perfect. How creative! I smiled the whole way through. ‘Can’t wait until the film shows up in our town.

Rabbit trail…

My favorite silent film (so far) is from 1926. It’s called Ménilmontant. You must step completely out of the rapid pace and linear flow of most modern American films to get past the first few minutes. Kirsanov was playing with composition and motion instead conforming to a certain story flow. Think poetry and painterly instead of narration. (Also, it starts with a grisly murder that almost seems comic by today’s standards. However, hang in there a bit past that before you judge it.)

You can watch it in segments on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOeIqYCeVxk

Catching up on the reviews and I agree that it was the best everything. I told my friend after we left the theater that it was the best movie experience I’ve had in a very long time.