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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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[–] SakowskyBrothers 17 years ago

No metropolis!! =(

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[–] SakowskyBrothers 17 years ago

Ah come on Sunrise wasn't to bad either. Although I do admit it is fairly over rated I do believe it to be one of the most emotional silent films ever made right under "The Passion of Joan of Arc". But yeah I watch City Lights, The General, Sherlock Jr. and Joan of Arc quite regularly. Not to mention Gold Rush and Modern Times as well. Great picks though =)

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[–] HulotderSpeiler 16 years ago

And Nosferatu?

black and white movies were better

[–] squallpendragon 17 years ago

Chelovek s kino-apparatom (1929)
Voyage dans la lune, Le (1902)
Un chien andalou (1929)
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
Gold Rush, The (1925)
Cabinet des Dr. Caligari., Das (1920)
Ballet mécanique (1924)
City Lights (1931)
some Lumiere films, Koko the Kop

[–] joshua_e_watkins 17 years ago

Metropolis
The General
College
Nosferatu
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
City Lights
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
Safety Last!

(and I still have many more to see that will probably later make this list! :)

[–] SakowskyBrothers 17 years ago

Ah nice another Nosferatu fan! If you liked that I would highly suggest "The Passion of Joan of Arc" with voices of light audio track. The films music to scene is so amazingly composed it's frightening. The film is truly a spectacle! Check it out!!

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[–] Jannies-Got-A-Gun 17 years ago

1. The Kid
2. A Dog's Life
3. Limelight
4. Modern Times
5. Intolerance
6. Gold Rush
7. The Great Dictator
8. The Champion
9. The General
10. Shoulder Arms

[–] Musically_Nostalgic 17 years ago

I actually love all silent films. I watch them frequently. but here are my Top 10.

1. Battleship Potemkin
2. Metropolis
3. The General
4. Greed
5. Birth of a Nation
6. The Iron Horse
7. Sunrise
8. The Gold Rush
9. Intolerance
10. City Lights

Jannies-Got-A-Gun, The Great Dictator was not a silent film.

[–] klasekfilmfan 17 years ago

I also love all silent films. This is my TOP FIVE in ORDER

1.) PANDORA'S BOX (1929) Pabst
2.) THE BIG PARADE (1925) Vidor
3.) DESTINY aka The Weary Death (1921) Lang
4.) SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS (1927) Murnau
5.) METROPOLIS (1927) Lang
6.) THE KID (1921) Chaplin
7.) THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (1928) Dreyer
8.) BROKEN BLOSSOMS or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919) Griffith
9.) NOSERFATU (1921) Murnau
10.) THE MATING CALL (1928) Cruze

This list could be different tomorrow. but the top 5 are fixtures.

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[–] aeioou 17 years ago

Limelight and The Great Dictator definitely aren't silent films, and I could see people arguing against Modern Times as well (though I consider it silent)...

[–] xlilkelx 17 years ago

Not in any order because I love so many...

Garden of Eden
7th Heaven
Hunchback of Notre Dame
Visages D’Enfants
Broken Blossoms
Orphans of the Storm
A Sailor Made Man
Sunrise
The General
Street Angel

[–] davejc1886 17 years ago

Cabiria
Faust
The General
Korkarlen
Der Letzte Mann
Der Mude Tod
Nosferatu
La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc
Prastankan
Die Puppe

[–] yotaxi 17 years ago

I haven't seen a lot of silent films but so far, my favorites are: Metropolis, City Lights, Modern Times, and The General.

[–] eli_berry 17 years ago

Mine aren't much different. I'll post 11-20 tomorrow, because i think ten is too small, considering there are so many wonderful films out there.

1. Greed (1925)
2. Flesh and the Devil (1927)
3. The Man Who Laughs (1927)
4: Sunrise(1927 Killiam print)
5. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (American reissue)
6.Phantom of the Opera (1929 reissue)
7. What Price Glory (1926 Killiam print)
8. He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
9. The General (1927)
10. The Gold Rush (1945-reissue)

I have to give the reissue of Gold Rush credit, because no one really likes it. However, it was the very first Chaplin film I ever saw and I love it dearly. Same goes for The General. My dad introduced me to silents, and he went out to Blockbuster (when they actually carried classics) and rented Phantom of the Opera and The General. He sat through both with me, and then let me loose to start collecting. Last I counted, I had around five hundred movies on DVD. Obsessed or passionate? At any rate, I'm going for my doctrite in film history...as soon as I find a college that'll let me do that.

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[–] vaffelmix 16 years ago

I haven't seen 10 but here are those I've seen:

1. The Kid
2. City Lights
3. Steamboat Bill, Jr.
4. The General
5. Modern Times
6. Metropolis

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[–] HulotderSpeiler 16 years ago

1. City Lights
2. Nosferatu
3. The Battleship Potemkin
4. The Gold Rush
5. Metropolis
6. Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler
7. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
8. The Phantom of the Opera
9. Modern Times
10. The Birth of A Nation

black and white movies were better

[–] tmf_scipio 15 years ago

Not in any particular order except the first one:

The General
Metropolis
Thief of Baghdad
Wings
7 Chances
The Butcher Boy
Steamboat Bill Jr.
Phantom of the Opera
Nosferatu
The Cameraman

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