What is your favourite film?
I've got many favorites, but I think my most favorite is Hitchcock's Vertigo.
That's a great film! It shows how Hitchcock was a great experimental artist. Do you like older films and all Hitchcock films?
Pretty much. I grew up during the '50s, so I got to watch many films on television and in the theaters from the '30s on. Later, I fell in love with silent films prior to 1929 too
Silent Films are a really interesting genre, it's very cool to watch something with no recorded sound or spoken dialogue. Do you prefer older or more modern film?
I love the full range of films. Some of the very best movies were made before sound came in. The technology has progressed, but the art has been great since the very beginning of the medium.
Did you see the The Artist? I think that brought a lot of attention to the art of Silent Film and showed an audience how a great movie can be made with no dialgoue!
Yes! It was fun on a very special level, but it couldn't encompass the full range of what the medium was doing then. One movie alone simply can't. There were thousands and thousands of films made during the silent era....
That's true - silent films did reign the cinemas for four whole decades, that's a lot of movies! What kind of formats do you have your silent movies on?
Mostly Blu-ray and DVD now, some 4K. I lost an entire library of films on Beta, VHS, LaserDisc, and DVD in the floods after Katrina.
Oh no how devastating! Have you replaced them or is it too difficult to get Beta, VHS etc now?
Some are lost forever, irreplaceable.