The most palpable effect of "The Artist," Michel Hazanavicius' beautiful homage to the tail end of the silent cinema era and movie-making's uneasy transition to talkies, is that it makes the audience member acutely attuned to their sense of hearing. I don't think my ears have ever listened so intently at a cinema until I caught the film at CineArts in Palo Alto last night.This might seem counterintuitive -- "The Arti…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 01:23PM on January 10, 2012