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Your Top ten favorite silent films

posted 17 years ago by SakowskyBrothers
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Starting this post to see what other kind of silent film favorites people have.

Here are mine.
(revised)

1.Citylights (1931)
2.Battleship potemkin (1925)
3.The Passion of Joan of Arc (/w Voices of light st)(1928)
4.The General (1927)
5.Metropolis (1927)
6.Sunrise (1927)
7.Goldrush (1925)
8.Nosferatu (1922)
9.Sherlock Jr.(1924)
10.Greed (1924)

As you can see I mostly like the short but sweet silent films hence I follow the code.

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[–] rojas_tortu 17 years ago

Hey, nice list! My favorites are:
1) City Lights :)
2) Battleship Potemkin
3) Metropolis
4) Sherlock, Jr.
5) Safety Last!
6) Man with a movie camera
7) The Kid
8) Nosferatu
9) La passion de Jeanne d'Arc
10) The Circus

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San José, Costa Rica

[–] Prof_Slats 17 years ago

I'm ashamed to say I haven't seen City Lights. My favorites:

Passion of Joan of Arc
Metropolis
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Heart of the World
Last Laugh
Nosferatu
The General
Fireworks
Sunrise
Begotten

[–] profprimbud 15 years ago

>>>I'm ashamed to say I haven't seen City Lights.

*GASP*!
& here I am thinking it has the greatest ending of any movie ever.

Oh, great, now I've hyped it, sorry.

I never think about the future, it comes soon enough

[–] bstephens21 17 years ago

The Holy Grail:

1) Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927, F.W. Murnau)
2) Ménilmontant (1926, Dimitri Kirsanoff)
3) La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc/The Passion of Joan of Arc (1929, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
4) Zemlya/Earth (1930, Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
5) Limite (1931, Mario Peixoto)
6) The Last Command (1928, Josef von Sternberg)
7) Lonesome (1928, Pál Fejös)
8) La Chute de la maison Usher/The Fall of the House of Usher (1928, Jean Epstein)
9) Körkarlen/The Phantom Carriage (1921, Victor Sjöström)
10) Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler/Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler (1922, Fritz Lang)

[–] amt253 16 years ago

Menilmontant is bold choice, and one I can't really disagree with. A lovely film.

Mine:

1. The Passion of Joan of Arc (w/ Voices of Light or silent)
2. The General
3. Greed (1999 Schmidlin restoration)
4. The Crowd (with the TCM score)
5. Man with a Movie Camera (with the Alloy Orchestra score)
6. Modern Times
7. The Last Laugh (with the 1924 score on the new Kino edition)
8. A Cottage on Dartmoor
9. The Smiling Madame Beudet
10. Safety Last!

Sherlock Jr., Sunrise, Battleship Potemkin (with the Shostakovich score), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Golem, Haxan, City Lights, The Cameraman, The End of St. Petersburg, and The Big Parade are the next ten. And if there were a separate category for shorts, I'd toss in A Corner in Wheat, One Week, Chess Fever, Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend, How It Feels to Be Run Over, and practically anything Melies.

[–] pascarot 16 years ago

1. Earth (1930, Dovzhenko)
2. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, Dreyer)
3. I Was Born, But... (1932, Ozu)
4. Sunrise (1927, Murnau)
5. Metropolis (1927, Lang)
6. The Man with a Movie Camera (1929, Vertov)
7. Sherlock Jr (1924, Keaton)
8. The General (1927, Keaton)
9. The Gold Rush (1925, Chaplin)
10. Battleship Potemkin (1925, Eisenstein)
11. City Lights (1931, Chaplin)
12. Broken Blossoms (1919, Griffith)
13. À Propos de Nice (1930, Vigo)
14. Storm Over Asia (1928, Pudovkin)
15. Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927, Ruttmann)

[–] marcolopolis25 16 years ago

1. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
2. City Lights/Modern Times
3. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
4. The Cameraman/Sherlock Jr.
5. Intolerance (1915)
6. Sunrise (1927)
7. Metropolis (1927)
8. The Gold Rush/The Kid/The Circus
9. Un Chien Andalou (1929)
10. Faust (1926)

I cheated a bit, but oh how I still need to see Napoleon and Greed.

[–] kriege10 16 years ago

The Birth of a Nation
Intolerance
Sherlock Junior
Strike
Battleship Potemkin
October

Runners-up

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Our Hospitality
The Navigator
The Last Laugh
The Gold Rush
The General
Sunrise
The End of St. Petersburg
Steamboat Bill Junior
The Cameraman
The Passion of Joan of Arc
City Lights

[–] Percivalx 16 years ago

1. Safety Last!
2. Metropolis
3. The General
4. The Kid Brother
5. The Gold Rush
6. Sherlock Jr.
7. Our Hospitality
8. City Lights
9. Girl Shy
10. The Freshman

Last Seen:
Sherlock Jr. (1924) - 9/10

[–] HulotderSpeiler 16 years ago

1. City Lights
2. Nosferatu
3. Dr. Mabuse
4. Battleship Potemkin
5. Greed
6. Napoleon
7. Metropolis
8. The Gold Rush
9. The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
10. The Phantom of The Opera

black and white movies were better

[–] Nia_S_S 15 years ago

10. The Wind
9. The Phantom of the Opera
8. Gold Rush
7. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
6. One Week
5. Steamboat Bill Jr.
4. The Rag Man
3. It
2. The Kid
1. Sherlock Jr.

~Nia

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