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    Posted: April 27 2011 at 17:45
Thought i'd create a thread on specifically silent cinema, as i am renewing my interest in collecting and watching silent films
        Any others interested too? If so, any recommendations, observations?

     P. S. for those who do not understand, silent films are ones that were created before the integration of sound dialogue and visual filming, which occurred around 1930.
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Phantom Of The Opera, baby.
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^ Hi, Slarti, will check that suggestion out

        Today, i saw two for the first time-The Lodger (1926) and The Farmer's Wife (1928) Both Alfred Hitchcock films (i did not know he was part of the silent era)
       Both very psychological, the first one about a serial killer who targets young fair haired women, and the second about a widowed farmer who makes a list of women to propose to, and does not fair too well in his search
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I'm a fan of a lot of Chaplin's comedies, most of which were silent.  Same goes for Metropolis, but beyond those I haven't seen very much in the way of silent films. 
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Originally posted by manofmystery manofmystery wrote:

 


LOL  brilliant

huge Chaplin fan, that's all I can say, and I prefer his shorter films to his 'real' movies





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I've watched only a few:

Battleship Potemkin - A masterpiece of its time though, unlike other ones, it feels too dated...

The Gold Rush - Amazing, a work of art, one of Chaplin's best. 

City Lights - even better than the previous one. If you see the ending and aren't moved, you aren't human. 

Nosferatu - still one of my favorite vampire/Dracula movies. A masterpiece that feels like one even today (just as Chaplin's two movies I mentioned). 

And that's it for me... Cry

Oh, and I just bought Metropolis, though haven't watched it yet... Tongue


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Some great ones already mentioned, Eisenstein is gold.

-Buster Keaton.

-Cabinet of Dr Kaligari.

-Broken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith).

-Murnau's Sunrise.

-Some great silent documentaries as well, Nanook of the North and Man with a Movie Camera for example.
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Originally posted by Logos Logos wrote:


-Murnau's Sunrise.
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A personal favorite of mine is Fritz Lang's Metropolis.
 
Another good early one,1902 I think,is A Trip to the Moon by Georges Melies.


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Anything by Buster Keaton - not only the greatest deadpan of all time but still managed to convey so much more humour and pathos than any gurning comic. His films are a treat to watch.
 
On the more surreal, I really like 'Un Chien Andalou' having first seen it at a Bowie concert in the 70s (cheapest support act ever).
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Hans Richter's "Ghosts Before Breakfast" from 1927.




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Oh and Marcel Duchamp's Anemic Cinema:
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If you want to see some racist propaganda: Birth Of A Nation. Dead
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Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

If you want to see some racist propaganda: Birth Of A Nation. Dead
 
 

“Okay, I can see the head… now push…

 

OMG! it’s a Nation!

Stop pushing woman! dammit, Pull!!!!"
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Many thanks for your replies, folks

      Also am a Chaplin fan, and like the shorts more than the longer films, exception being The Kid

         Buster Keaton is new to me, and i have a dvd of his two movies The General and The Misadventures of Buster Keaton, which i am going to view soon

        Some of you have mentioned other things completely new to me-thanks

       Metropolis is a classic

       have seen Birth Of A Nation many years ago, but will revisit that film
 
       also like Laurel and Hardy silent shorts
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

If you want to see some racist propaganda: Birth Of A Nation. Dead
 
 

“Okay, I can see the head… now push…

 

OMG! it’s a Nation!

Stop pushing woman! dammit, Pull!!!!"
And you gotta know it's hard to push out a whole nation from your va jj.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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I like Eisenstein's films. And the films that James suggested. Also:



and Dean mentioned:




Edited by Formentera Lady - April 29 2011 at 05:03
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Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

I've watched only a few:


The Gold Rush - Amazing, a work of art, one of Chaplin's best. 


Nosferatu - still one of my favorite vampire/Dracula movies. A masterpiece that feels like one even today (just as Chaplin's two movies I mentioned). 

Excellent suggestions... May I suggest Modern Times, another great masterpiece from Chaplin, and that sadly the subject keeps present 70 years after.
 
Nosferatu is brilliant, make sure you see it... is there in Google videos for free... a total masterpiece, of course, to it's time...
Change the program inside... Stay in silence is a crime.
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

On the more surreal, I really like 'Un Chien Andalou' having first seen it at a Bowie concert in the 70s (cheapest support act ever).
Also, Entr'acte. Cool
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