I saw "The Artist" tonight, the black-and-white silent movie, and it was great! I enjoyed it mightily. It was everything I think "Hugo" aspired to be. Amazing achievement, and I'm so glad I saw it on the big screen. As a movie lover, it was just so much fun to watch the director's clear love of movies show in how he shot it. A picture-perfect period piece, and as a silent movie, no less! I was very impressed.
I really enjoyed "The Artist." Everybody about it was enjoyable -- the casting, the costuming, the shots, the situations -- it was both staggeringly self-referential and postmodern and incredibly entertaining. It's the first movie I've really enjoyed in a long time. It was a sweet lil' love story, an exercise in cinematic style -- funny, inventive, delightful.
And it was really weird for me, since I watched "The Shadow" last night, which was a fairly lavish, if somewhat empty retro movie (which had Penelope Ann Miller in it, among others), and tonight I watched "The Artist," which had a much-older Penelope Ann Miller in it!!! WTF? That was just very trippy.
Totally worth your time, and a trip to see a silent movie about silent movies in this day and age. Bravo!
