friends of mine did an excellent live score for metropolis at the last adelaide film festival

http://2005.adelaidefilmfestival.org...etropolis.html

Battleship Potemkin.

and

Der Golem.

I hereby nominate Chaplin's City Lights, the one with the blind girl. Made me a little bit weepy. Maybe the most romantic movie ever. Perfect.

chaplin's the kid made me weepy. all of his films have odd endings. they aren't happy but they aren't sad. his movies always just all of a sudden end without warning. i usually find myself confused at the end of his movies. chaplin said he perfered his movies to all end with sad endings, but the studio made him stick somekind of happiness in the end because the audience always want's a happy ending. that explains why his endings are akward.

the only other chaplin movie I've seen is Great Dictator, but that's for another thread (not silent!). So I can't comment on The Kid.

I use to watch those on TCM. I think it would be really cool to go to an actual theatre and see one though.

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau unfortunately died too young.
Apart from Nosferatu, he also directed Sunrise, which was acted beautifully, where image was composed with taste, a truly admirable film, with some special effects that amazed the friend I brought to the movie to see that gem.
More special effects (and some setting) in Faust. The film ain't a good one though in my opinion, he was too focused being smart with the possibilities of the camera. Which he would have exhausted if exhaustion could apply to a camera.

Georg Wilhelm Pabst's Lulu with Louise Brooks is really really fine too. For a young man, it's more than charming.