Inuzuka Minoru

[thomas.lamarre]

Just to add to this train of thought: there are other reasons to make silent
films, if we look at Guy Maddin's recent silent 'Brand upon the Brain,'
which was performed in Toronto with Isabella Rosselinni as the live narrator
but which has been released more widely as a 'silent' (with the caveat the
silent films often have sound and music).

Tom


On 10/6/07 12:56 PM, "Aaron Gerow" <aaron.gerow at yale.edu> wrote:

> I actually conveyed the question to a film studies list. We'll see what
> others come up with.
> 
>> I was thinking of Oliveira, which is why I didn't say the thought that
>> initially occured to me?of?"last director to have made silent films" -
>> since?Oliveira's short documentary Douro - Faina Fluvial (1931) is
>> silent. Having said that, I could have said "Was Inuzuka the last
>> director to have made silent features"?
> 
> The problem with saying "silent features" is that there were some
> countries, like Korea, that were making silent features into the 1940s
> due to various historical circumstances. Japan, of course, was
> releasing silent features up until about 1937. Perhaps restricting the
> question to the 1920s helps avoids these differences in circumstance.
> 
> 
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