I asked a little while back on people’s thoughts for a theme, and the most popular seemed to be silent cinema. Already, several of my favourite films are silent movies, but still I’ve seen barely any comparitively to any other decade, and have missed out on many of the greats. Obviously, I’m not going to be watching exclusively silent films this month, but any other reviews I may have that are not on topic I’ll be posting at Chicks on Fire. I aim to see at least 10 feature length silents I had never seen before, as well as several shorts. I’m happy to take suggestions for films you think I’d enjoy, or should see. I’m not only going to post reviews but additional thoughts, and notes on silent stars, practises, etc. I aim to have at least one post a day.
To start, this is a list of my 10 favourite feature lengths
1. City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
2. Pandora’s Box (Pabst, 1929)
3. La Passion de Jeanne D’Arc (Dreyer, 1928)
4. Metropolis (Lang, 1927)
5. Foolish Wives (Stroheim, 1922)
6. Nosferatu (Murnau, 1922)
7. The General (Keaton, 1927)
8. Diary of a Lost Girl (Pabst, 1929)
9. Greed (Stroheim, 1924)
10. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Wiene, 1920)
Twenty films I’d like to see the most:
Les Vampires (Feuillade,1915)
Sunrise (Murnau, 1927)
Faust (Murnau, 1926)
Broken Blossoms (Griffith, 1919)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robertson, 1920)
Orphans of the Storm (Griffith, 1921)
The Phantom Chariot (Sjöström, 1921)
Joyless Street (Pabst, 1926)
Paris qui dort (Clair, 1925)
La Boheme (Vidor, 1926)
Beggars of Life (Wellman, 1928)
A Girl in Every Port (Hawks,1928)
Street Angel (Borzage,1928)
The Crowd (Vidor, 1928)
Napoleon (Gance, 1927)
Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (Lang, 1921)
The Lodger (Hitchcock, 1922)
7th Heaven (Borzage, 1927)
Where East Is East (Browning, 1929)
The Big Parade (Vidor, 1925)
