Hou Hsiao-Hsien
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| - | A '''silent film''' is a [[motion picture]] with no accompanying, synchronized recorded [[sound]], especially spoken [[dialogue]]. | + | '''Hou Hsiao-Hsien''' (born April 8, 1947) is an award-winning film director and a leading figure of [[Taiwan]]'s [[Cinema of Taiwan#New Wave Cinema, 1982 – 1990|New Wave cinema movement]]. |
| - | The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded [[sound]] is nearly as old as the [[motion picture]] itself, but because of the technical challenges involved, most films were silent before the late [[1920s]]. | ||
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| - | In reality, 'silent films' were almost never silent, but always accompanied by some kind of music, mostly live accompaniment by live [[piano]]. For example the very young [[Dmitri Shostakovich]] helped to make ends meet by playing the piano in a movie house and later went on to compose [[film score]]s for many silent films, including his debut ''[[The New Babylon]]''. | ||
| - | ===Later homages=== | ||
| - | :''[[homages to silent cinema]]'' | ||
| - | Several filmmakers have paid homage to the comedies of the silent era, including [[Jacques Tati]] with his ''[[Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot]]'' (1953) and [[Mel Brooks]] with ''[[Silent Movie]]'' (1976). Taiwanese director [[Hou Hsiao-Hsien]]'s acclaimed drama ''[[Three Times]]'' (2005) is silent during its middle third, complete with intertitles; [[Stanley Tucci]]'s ''[[The Impostors]]'' has an opening silent sequence in the style of early silent comedies. Brazilian filmmaker Renato Falcão's ''Margarette's Feast'' (2003) is silent. Writer / Director Michael Pleckaitis puts his own twist on the genre with ''Silent'' (2007). While not silent, the ''[[Mr. Bean]]'' TV show and movies have used the title character's non-talkative nature to create a similar style of humor. | ||
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| - | * ''[[Ménilmontant (film)]]'', a 1926 silent film by [[Dimitri Kirsanoff]] | + | * [[Cinema of Taiwan]] |
| - | * ''[[Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde]]'' | + | * [[Edward Yang]] |
| - | *[[Early horror films]] | + | * [[Tsai Ming-liang]] |
| - | *[[Laurel and Hardy]] | + | |
| - | *[[German Expressionism]] | + | |
| - | *[[Kammerspiel]] | + | |
| - | *[[Lost films]] | + | |
| - | *[[Sound film]] | + | |
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Hou Hsiao-Hsien (born April 8, 1947) is an award-winning film director and a leading figure of Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement.
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