Steinesongo Too many fans seem to be blown away

AboveDeepBuggy Some things I liked some I did not.

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

cricketbat I wanted to like The Artist more than I did. I love silent movies and I was excited to see this Best Picture winner. However, I may have built it up too much in my mind. It's enjoyable, but it didn't grab me like I expected it to. The cast does a great job, the visuals are beautiful and I love the references and homages to the silent era. The story, however, is overly simplistic and it seems to drag. It may have been my fault, though, I watched it when I was tired -- never a good idea.

Michael Ledo This is a good movie, but it typically one that is overrated because it shows some kind of class, intellect and refinement to proclaim itself as genius. The production starts with 3 strikes against it. First, at times, it is a movie within a movie. Second, it is in black and white, and third, it is mostly all silent. With all the rave, I was willing to attempt an open mind viewing (zombie films are sometimes in black and white too).These techniques were done to to give us the flavor of the films of the era. Even though those restored masters are available, who among the 5 star rave reviewers watch them? You could list them on one hand, or maybe one finger. In the silent era, the jokes were visual. The sound track created the mood, more so than it does today, and actors had to make dramatic movements to create emotions. They used their face...a term called "mugging" in the film. This was brilliantly brought out in the film, although we already knew that.The film uses symbolism, such as when our star George Valentin's (Jean Dujardin)career is sinking, it shows him in a film sinking in quicksand. Good yes. Genius? Hardly. The script reminded me of "A Star is Born" (pick one) where a star launches the career of a new star only to see his fade. George is "The Artist" who believes talkies are not art. Besides the studio no longer wants George. They want fresh faces such as rising star Peppy Miller (Bérénice Bejo).I liked the idea of doing the silent movie film to show us the transition from silent to talkies, I just didn't like the predictable script. Plot is important.No f-bombs, sex, or nudity. You should be able to read lips after this film.

cinemajesty Film Review: "The Artist" (2011)Considered by many to be the Best Picture of year 2011, starting its success story at Cannes Film Festival on its 64th edition in May 2011 and finishing on February 26th 2012 with the Academy Award for Best Picture of the same year, utilizing the instrument of an high-concept gimmick by shooting the picture entirely in 1920s filmmaking conditions with framing set to full frame aspect ratio to capture light reflections on 35mm black and white filmstock under the direction of former television movie director Michel Hazanavicius, who earns his lucky punch of international filmmaking with his formidable playing leading man Jean Dujardin in a role of a life-time and sweet-looking, earning by the beats actress Bérénice Bejo, building the undeniable classic taste of a star-striving emerging Hollywood era of oblivion.Winning five out of ten Oscar Nominations, dividing the Academy Award Ceremony of 2012 in its 84th Edition with Martin Scorsese's directed high-end major budget granted infusion of a filmmaker's homage on the life of Georges Méliès (1861-1938) "Hugo"; keeping the voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in a tight grip of choosing an original stagnation, no-risk classic over cinematic evolution in terms of daring the impossible by bringing the whole filmmaking orchestra out of its "The Big Sleep" (1946) winter sleep to take responsibility of a worldwide shared audiovisual infusions, who shaped a society of future filmmakers that are considered to cannibalize each other by rolling their thump to a beat of emotional deprivation, making this picture being welcome in times of nostalgia and pushed-aside "Melancholia" (2011) directed by Lars von Trier.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

gverdonk A silent film, in black and white, led by two French stars that are virtually unknown in the United States, it doesn't seem like the kind of movie that, outside of art-house buffs, would catch on with a broader audience. But, the Weinstein instincts were right on as the movie played like gangbusters to critics (who applauded several times through the screening at Cannes), but moreover, Hazanavicius' film is a pure joy. Wildly entertaining, with a big generous heart, "The Artist" is not just an exercise in old school filmmaking, it's a beautifully told story that is classic and timeless in feel.