569 People on Sunday

[aox]

I blind bought this because it is one of the more fascinating releases from Criterion (non-Eclipse) in a long time. And I admit that I am a philistine to silent film beyond basic history. I just couldn't stop reading about it an admiring the photography I saw in screen shots.

My questions is: which score do I listen to? I am all for listening to silent films, silent. Should I do that here, or does one of the scores actually work for this film out of the two choices? Thanks

[matrixschmatrix]

Haha, I think it's rare that a silent movie works better totally mute- very few were intended to be seen that way, and unless a score is a total abomination a movie meant for accompaniment works better with accompaniment, I think. For this one, I liked the modernist score better, the Czech Film Orchestra one, but they're both good and I think the distinction is largely a matter of taste- if you're a purist or you prefer that you feel like you were watching the movie during its original release, you might prefer the other one, which sounds more like a score that would have been performed in the 20s.

[swo17]

I really like the Elena Kats-Chernin one.

[D_B]

I look forward to checking this out. I saw it quite awhile ago in a theater and loved it. It seemed like the perfect movie to show to film school students - granted the combined talent of the filmmakers was (in retrospect) amazing, but they made this film with the most basic of elements accessible to most young filmmakers, just a few young people on location in a city and a park.