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What was the last silent movie that you watched?


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Had a spare hour yesterday (something of a miracle in itself!) & therefore settled down to watch the fabulous Asta Nielsen in Afgrunden/The Abyss whereby Ms Nielsen jilts her fiancé & runs off with a hunky circus performer (played by Poul Reumert) but this being highly moralistic 1910 film-making she isn't seen to be enjoying her "sinning ways" for long though!
The print was decent enough quality (purchased from the Danish Film Institute) but at least it was not one of the darker,almost unwatchable prints that I have seen mentioned before on that film's comments page.
Looking forward to seeing the other three Ms Nielsen films featured on the disc too-The Ballet Dancer-The Black Dream & Towards the Light.

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The Kid (1921) 9.6/10
Just watched the film again, and great as always. By my opinion Chaplin's best.

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Don't get me wrong, I really do love the The Kid, but, in my opinion, City Lights is Chaplin's greatest film.

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I don't mind at all that u think that City Lights (great film BTW) as Chaplin's best. Everyone has his own opinion. :)

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F W Murnau's 'Tabu'. It actually has a very similiar story to Nosferatu but a completely different setting. Thought it was a really beautifully made film.

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Probably the last one I watched (off air) was William Haines' THE SMART SET or maybe my video of SEVENTH HEAVEN. I also watched a number of shorts off the Edison DVD set I borrowed from the library.

BTW, CITY LIGHTS is also my favorite Chaplin. I find THE KID a tad overrated although the chemistry between Chaplin and Jackie Coogan is wonderful (and Jackie is one of the best child actors ever). I would rank it in my top five Chaplins but not ahead of THE GOLD RUSH, THE CIRCUS, and MODERN TIMES.

Remembering JANE WYMAN (1917-2007), BETTY HUTTON (1921-2007), YVONNE DE CARLO (1922-2007)

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Been going through the Treasures 2 disc set which I finally broke down and bought. I had put it off because I had recorded a lot of the films that were shown on TCM when that 2nd boxed set came out. But I loved Treasures 3 so much, and I already had the first Treasures set, so I wanted to complete my collection. So the last two evenings I've watched all the silents on discs one and two. Of all of them I like Griffith's Biograph The Country Doctor (1909) the best. A great chance to see Florence Lawrence in a great print too.

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Saw the very rare Mack Sennett 1913 short "The Gusher" yesterday which is included as a bonus feature in the recently released Kino DVD "The Extra Girl" starring Mabel Normand.
In "The Gusher" Ford Sterling plays a good guy (for once!)-He is a country yokel with Mabel Normand as his fiancée who are sold a fake oil field by thieves which then turns out to be a real gusher & so in retaliation the thieves set the damned thing alight..........

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