What is Cinemaphile's favourite silent film?
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Metropolis.
red turtle
Gance's Napoleon
L'Inferno or Faust. Boring answers but these are the only ones that ever stuck.
The Artist.
Haven't seen that many, I'll list those I remember
The Birth of a Nation
Sir Arne's Treasure
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The Phantom Carriage
The Kid
Haxan
Nosferatu
The Ten Commandments
The Navigator
The Thief of Bagdad
The Lost World
The Big Parade
Phantom of the Opera
The Gold Rush
The General
Metropolis
The Battleship Potemkin
Joan of Arc
Man With a Movie Camera
City Lights
Modern Times
I enjoyed The General the most. Nosferatu, Modern Times/City Lights (if you enjoy one, you'll enjoy the other), Joan of Arc, Metropolis, Haxan are stunningly timeless given their age and considering their technique. The rest are marked by the time, not in a bad way, its just how it is, and most of them are still worthy a watch if the circumstances are right.
well, I should've read this post before I typed my reply. this is the answer, and the only answer
>they showed the recently restored version of Häxan in my city with a live pianist
>tickets were sold out immediately
God damn it all
>with a live pianist
oh, that would have been interesting. I've often felt that most of the soundtracks for the silent movies rarely fits it even though they've hired a composer. I think its something with the tune, it feels too modern, too precise, too exact, and it wont mesh with what happens on the screen, the pictures that aint as polishes (if one is allowed to say so).
Then again Haxan is probably one of the more forgiving movies on this area. While it has some "disturbing" moments it doesn't really on conveying them in they way audio/visual stimulates your senses emotionally but is more contemplative in its potrayal of the horrors.
>Go watch a live version of Haxan at my city's film festival
>Film makes interesting points on how women were treated badly
>Promptly ends with a title card saying 'bawd' (The end in Swedish)
>Audience guffaws
The Weary Death
Nosferatu
Phantom of the Opera
Woman on the Moon
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Dr. Mabuse the Gambler
queen of spades
Women talking
Faust (1926) is a top 10 film for me in general.
The Wind.
Jeanne.
>b***h crying for two hours
Zero de Conduit
City Lights
second is The General
I'm 37 and the only silent film I watched (and enjoyed) was Haxan. I'll be watching most films mentioned in this thread.
Die Nibelungen
Last one I saw wad on netflix so that doesn't count because you gaysvhat netflix l.
Passion of th Christ.
Man this didn't dissapoint, german expressionism looks amazing, same with final twist.
I might get one of those Cesare figures from Mezco a saw
The Wind
Cesare is so cool looking, what a great and timeless character design. The grandpa of all goth/emo boys
The whole german expressionism look should be used more actually
Batman returns. No I’m (half) joking it’s Faust.
Aelita (1924)
For me, it was getting the (1916) boys together and going down to the flick palace to see the latest Theda kino (And a show)
There's a movie called Within our Gates, and it's from 1920 or something. Has anyone else seen this? It was on Netflix or Tubi a few years ago. The story behind the movie is interesting. It was the first American movie directed by a Black and the film reels were assumed lost forever after decades of searching. Eventually, a copy turned up in Spain, of all places, and the footage was restored with newly-written music added over, and the new music does a great job of accenting the footage while not overstepping its boundaries by being too modern and whatnot. It's very interesting and everyone should check it out. There's a scene that takes place in a church and a guy sitting in the pews has some of the most impressive eyebrows ever crafted.
I have only seen Metropolis and birth of a nation.
I'd go with birth of a nation
All is lost
The General (1927)
Faust, Siegfried, Metropolis
Intolerance for the superb sets and costumes, otherwise the movie is bad.