Silent Film Fans.....? (1 Viewer)

[whathappen?]

Hi
I just ordered two Louise Brooks films, Diary of a Lost Girl and Pandoras Box.
I was looking at some clips on youtube and realy enjoyed them and would like to get into it, so what other films would ye recommend



thanks

 

[Dixer]

Hi
I just ordered two Louise Brooks films, Diary of a Lost Girl and Pandoras Box.
I was looking at some clips on youtube and realy enjoyed them and would like to get into it, so what other films would ye recommend



thanks

Häxan, Witchcraft Through the Ages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Häxan
Modern Times (Chaplin) I'm a big fan of too.

 

[Ferox13]

Cabinet of Doctor Caligari

Faust

Nosferatu

They recently made a silent version of Call of Cthulhu which is amazing.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Faust

Nosferatu

that Murnau dude was good.

also Sunrise.

others

DW Griffith
- Intolerance
- The Birth Of A Nation.

for laughs try Harold Lloyd
- Safety Last

 

[ratmonkey]

archive.org used to have Faust (that's where I got if from at least.)

These are still there: M (not silent, but it's Fritz Lang from the same kind of time), Scarlet Street, Nosferatu, Cabinet of Doctor Caligari.

 

[Goff]

Er, Metropolis.

And Wings: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018578/
Clara Bow heaven and it has Gary Cooper.

Best Silent movie ever made.

 

[Goff]

And any and all of Harold Lloyd's stuff.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

I loved Buster Keaton's The Railrodder when i was a kid. I think it was his last film. Made in the 1960s.

 

[sweetoblivion]

Häxan, Witchcraft Through the Ages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Häxan
Modern Times (Chaplin) I'm a big fan of too.

great recommendations!

I'd also add The Phantom Carriage (Korkarlen) - directed by Victor Sjostrom - to that list - I studied swedish silent film when I was in college and this was one of the films. It's so fantastic. The use of superimposition is spookily brilliant.
Another one of Sjostrom's great films was Wild Strawberries. Written by Ingmar Bergman.

 

[sweetoblivion]

that Murnau dude was good.

also Sunrise.

others

DW Griffith
- Intolerance
- The Birth Of A Nation.

for laughs try Harold Lloyd
- Safety Last

just be aware that birth of a nation is one of the most racist films ever!!

 

[Mitchum]

"Greed"-Erich von Stroheim's masterpiece.
The IFI showed it in all it's 3 hours plus glory a few years ago. It was impossible to ignore the sound of rumbling stomachs.

The Passion of Joan of Arc by Dreyer

Anything by Buster Keaton.

 

[sweetoblivion]

was Greed originally around 9 hours long or am I thinking of a different film?

 

[carbide]

i saw paris qui dort a little while ago, it's amazing - lovely city and entertaining story and mad scientist action.

one of our lecturers at college is itching to put on a wee silent film festival there, using his collection of films. i must pursue this.

 

[Mitchum]

was Greed originally around 9 hours long or am I thinking of a different film?

Yup-same film. The 3hr40mins version is still brilliant. Definitely the inspiration for Treasure Of Sierra Madre.

 

[sweetoblivion]

cool! i miss film lectures...I got into the American Film and Lit MA course in UCC but I did Women's studies instead...