Old Movies

I was able to catch a silent movie that is on the Top 250 of all time at the IMDB site yesterday on TCM called Sunrise:A Song of Two Humans. I set out a goal of watching every movie on the list a few years back. I've watched over 150 of them. Of course the list is constantly changing especially at the bottom but most of the top 150 or so are pretty static. So, I was quite pleased to catch such a rare one on the TV. Anyway I missed the first 30 minutes and quite frankly I was not all that impressed with the movie at first. However doing some research I have found that alot of these old films are public domain and outside of copyright. So even these old films are widely found for free on the internet. Yeah, I'm way behind still on this stuff! So I was able to find this movie Sunrise which by the way won the first ever Oscar for Best Picture (for unique and artistic production )the regular Best Picture which went to Wings. In the end it was better than I had originally gathered and I really had missed the crux of the entire film. Where I had picked it up was probably the worst place to do so because it was a huge turning point in the plot. I have to admit I got sucked into it the second time around whereas the first time I was incredibly bored not knowing the whole plot line it had seemed silly where I had started from the first time around. This was the second silent morality tale I have seen recently and it was completely different from the first which was M director Fritz Langs sci-fi classic Metropolis.

In my search of Sunrise I also found several other great old silent films and others from way back that I have been wanting to see. Chaplin films, Keaton, Fritz Lang's M, Sunset Blvd among others. There is a plethora of incredible video online now. It really is the information age. A few months back I was able to find dozens of rare and vintage championship boxing matches dating back over a century including Jack Johnson. To find these old classic films is a real coup.