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Aug 5, 2024 · The Artist, French black-and-white film, released in 2011, that was an homage to movies of the 1920s and became the first mostly silent feature to win the Academy Award for best picture since the first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929.
- Pat Bauer
Dec 21, 2011 · “The Artist” knows you’re aware it’s silent and kids you about it. Not that it’s entirely silent, of course; like all silent films were, it’s accompanied by music. You know — like in a regular movie when nobody’s talking?
The story takes place in Hollywood, between 1927 and 1932, and focuses on the relationship between a rising young actress and an older silent film star as silent cinema falls out of fashion and is replaced by the "talkies". The Artist received widespread critical acclaim and won many accolades.
The Artist tells the story of Hollywood between 1927 and 1932, arguably one of the industry's biggest transitionary periods as it moved out of the silent era and into "talkies." It...
- Rod Bastanmehr
Dec 22, 2011 · Specifically, “The Artist” is the story of an actor, George Valentin, who rules the silent screen in a series of heroic-romantic roles, a la Douglas Fairbanks.
Dec 23, 2011 · With its portrait of a 1920s silent-movie actor facing the onset of talkies, the black-and-white silent film “The Artist” taps into the anxieties of a generation faced with similar economic and...
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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.
