Silent Films
 

I've had a fascination with silent films for a long time. They used to play 3 or 4 of them at like 1am on TCM every night, and during the summer I'd watch the majority of them. A lost art form, but an important one. Anyone else dig movies from the 1920s?

Favorites:


Josephine Baker

Lon Chaney


Nosferatu (1922)

Metropolis (1921)

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I love old movies, but I'm not familiar with silents. The closest I have is Dracula (1931), which has sound. I have a ton of 40's-50's film noir, though. I should see some silent films; I'd probably like them.

Metropolis and Nosferatu are amazing. I just recently saw the cabinet of dr. caligari and that was really neat. Awesome looking sets.

i think your forgetting the king of silent films...charlie chaplin. The gold rush was him best movie! i love that movie it's so funny!

You are right, credit is deserved.

I'm not highly familiar with silent film, but I did watch Un Chien Andalou because of the Pixies, and I liked that. I also really liked the Kid with Chaplin and the Lon Chaney Phantom of the Opera.

Un Chien is one screwed up movie.

Yeah it is.

Ooh, I forgot, on the Clash DVD, there is a really cool silent film they made.

I love them.
I've gotten to compose and perform live soundtracks to both Nosferatu and The Passion Of Joan Of Arc, which was an honor and a rewarding challenge.
Others I love:

The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari
Wampyr
Nanook of the North
Man With A Movie Camera
The Thief Of Baghdad


A shot of my bandmates Dave and Madeline (amazing talent; she was just 12 when we did this music together):



Madeline silhouette with Joan:

amc played The Circus the other day & i joined in a few minutes late, although i would have loved to have taped it. it's my favorite Charlie Chaplin movie.

The Passion of Joan Arc was featured in a contest of sorts on TCM, if I remember correctly. Were you involved with that? Nice film too.

I wasn't involved with that; we just did 3 performances. Two at the Red Eye theater and one at the College of St. Catherine.

most of stan brakhage

download Un Chien Andalou (1929) & many more
http://www.ubu.com/film/index.html

the banner at the top of the page is of course from that film

oh fuck you guys already mentioned some of my greatest favorites like

-nosferatu
-dr caligari
-metropolis

however, im going to add some masterpieces such as--



battleship potemkin



faust




sherlock, jr.

and (im cheating here)




modern times (not totally silent, but o well...)

Fuck yeah! Silence from the Soviet Union!

Ok good, you listed Nosferatu:D

ooh great link... i realise i have never really explored that ubuweb site, altough i have been aware for some time that it existed...

you must spread some reputation around before giving it to atari 2600 again

I like "Speedy", Lou Chaney classics of course, and others that I don't know the name of...