This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Every person who is obsessed with movies and filmmaking has that one movie that made them interested in the medium, and for me, that film was The Artist. The film came out in 2011 and it was a black and white silent film, the same way movies were used to be back in the 20's and 30's, in fact, the film takes place in the final days of silent movies when the talkies started to rise, which is how they used to call movies with voice audio, the film is about a famous actor of the silent era and his downfall when this films slowly disappear, and we also see the rise of a young actress in the talkies era and a big part of the film is the relationship that forms between this two and how it changes through the years, what I love about this film is that it feels so much as a love letter to Hollywood and filmmaking in general, even though it was released on 2011, it feels like a piece of cinematic history. The acting is across the board excellent, everyone does an excellent job in convening emotion without saying words and this also comes from excellent direction, you can tell the director really love the medium, the music is also great, it really captures the style of the era is representing. Something that should be noted is that I never felt the movie was slow or boring, I felt constantly entertained, there was always so much movement in every shot, which makes sense considering this was a silent film, this is something very, VERY few people are familiar with nowadays but the pacing felt just right, there isn't really a scene that drags in my opinion. Overall the film is just fantastic and I can't really find much wrong with it, this is the film that awoke my interest in filmmaking and made me start to appreciate films in a way I didn't even considered before.

Film Review: "The Artist" (2011)Considered by many to be the Best Picture of year 2011, starting its success story at Cannes Film Festival on its 64th edition in May 2011 and finishing on February 26th 2012 with the Academy Award for Best Picture of the same year, utilizing the instrument of an high-concept gimmick by shooting the picture entirely in 1920s filmmaking conditions with framing set to full frame aspect ratio to capture light reflections on 35mm black and white filmstock under the direction of former television movie director Michel Hazanavicius, who earns his lucky punch of international filmmaking with his formidable playing leading man Jean Dujardin in a role of a life-time and sweet-looking, earning by the beats actress Bérénice Bejo, building the undeniable classic taste of a star-striving emerging Hollywood era of oblivion.Winning five out of ten Oscar Nominations, dividing the Academy Award Ceremony of 2012 in its 84th Edition with Martin Scorsese's directed high-end major budget granted infusion of a filmmaker's homage on the life of Georges Méliès (1861-1938) "Hugo"; keeping the voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in a tight grip of choosing an original stagnation, no-risk classic over cinematic evolution in terms of daring the impossible by bringing the whole filmmaking orchestra out of its "The Big Sleep" (1946) winter sleep to take responsibility of a worldwide shared audiovisual infusions, who shaped a society of future filmmakers that are considered to cannibalize each other by rolling their thump to a beat of emotional deprivation, making this picture being welcome in times of nostalgia and pushed-aside "Melancholia" (2011) directed by Lars von Trier.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

I had this movie on my watch list for at least 5 years but I never got fully persuaded to watch it until now. Funnily enough it took hearing a podcast talking about how it had been forgotten to remind me. And maybe it does have that forget-ability built into to movie but that doesn't mean it is without charm. It's a simple enough story of movies transitioning into the 'talkies' from the silent era and how a man doesn't know how to change with the times.Being a silent movie the visuals and music is all you get so initially a bit jarring. But quickly I found the viewing experience to be engaging in a different way than seeing a modern movie. It enjoyable as a true film rather than just being an homage to that era of film.It is worth seeing despite it quickly fading from the public's memory. It's a fascinating movie but probably only worth one viewing. Sorry George.

Where do I begin, well for starters I can say that I am a huge fan of Jean Dujardin. However, as I lack any artistic bones in my DNA the black & white silent style of this movie just did not appeal to me. The silent era as well as that of B&W, is a bygone era and for a good reason, it has been surpassed by better technology. I can certainly appreciate B&W photographs, for the most part, I prefer to shoot them that way. That, however, does not mean I want to watch a movie in this format.Even as a kid I found Mel Brooks' Silent Movie to be somewhat annoying, but in the end, it was entertaining and funny - that said I only watched it once. The Artist was neither - perhaps it is my fault though as I fast forwarded through the majority of the film.