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Post by timshelboy on Jun 8, 2018 13:00:12 GMT
Hi all
The ICM movies board - which now hosts the Best of Year polls that migrated from imdb1 - will be polling 1925 soon.
My silent film viewing is more than a little patchy - Can anyone suggest some crowd pleasing recommendations from that year? You need to have at least 5 films in your ballot and at this point I only have POTEMKIN, STRIKE and GOLD RUSH from that year that I'd recommend. So I need to view at least 2 more films from that year I like enough to nominate.
Oh and if anyone wants to participate in the current poll - 1969 - here is linkl1969 poll
Thanks in advance!
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Post by mikef6 on Jun 8, 2018 13:26:35 GMT
Ben-Hur: A Tale Of The Christ / Fred Niblo
Bronenosets Potyomkin (Battleship Potemkin) / Sergei M. Eisenstein
The Big Parade / King Vidor
The Gold Rush / Charles Chaplin
The Lost World / Harry O. Hoyt
The Phantom Of The Opera / Rupert Julian
Riders Of The Purple Sage / Lynn Reynolds
The above is my Best for 1925. Other titles from that year I have seen are:
Die Freudlose Gasse (Joyless Street) / Georg Wilhelm Pabst
The Wizard Of Oz / Larry Semon
Du Skal Aere Din Hustru (Master Of The House) / Carl T. Dreyer
Body And Soul / Oscar Micheaux
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Post by claudius on Jun 8, 2018 19:34:29 GMT
BEN-HUR: A TALE OF THE CHRIST Oh definitely!
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA When I think of 1925, I think of this film.
SEVEN CHANCES My favorite Buster Keaton film.
THE FRESHMAN A lot of people consider this Harold Lloyd's best film.
Other films:
THE BIG PARADE
THE MERRY WIDOW
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 8, 2018 21:36:07 GMT
Along with those wonderful recommendations given already...
I can add from my collection these favourites of the year.
Lady Windermere's Fan , Ernst Lubitsch
A Woman of the World , Malcolm St. Clair, starring Pola Negri
The Unholy Three , Tod Browning
My Lady of Whims , Dallas M. Fitzgerald, starring Clara Bow
Shônen bidan: Kiyoki kokoro , Tomu Uchida 35 min short
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Post by timshelboy on Jun 11, 2018 7:47:24 GMT
Thanks All
I have PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, STELLA DALLAS, LADY WINDERMMERES FAN and THE FRESHMAN lined up - all free from youtube  and SHE bookmarked
and BEN HUR if I can cope with French Subs
Thanks again for recs
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Post by OldAussie on Jun 11, 2018 11:49:34 GMT
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Post by claudius on Jun 11, 2018 19:46:09 GMT
In full? You mean its the actual uncut (as much as can be possible) version that includes Christ's crucified hand & the Psalm 30:5 intertitle?
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Post by OldAussie on Jun 11, 2018 20:57:26 GMT
In full? You mean its the actual uncut (as much as can be possible) version that includes Christ's crucified hand & the Psalm 30:5 intertitle? Sorry, not sure of those scenes, but as I recall it runs 140 minutes (?) and looks great. Edit - that's 143 minutes and those scenes don't seem to be in it. |
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Post by claudius on Jun 12, 2018 10:00:33 GMT
Thought so. I also wish to add that the mid-race exchange between Messala and the Greek charioteer was originally 'subtitle-ish' - an intertitle imposed on an actual moving scene of charging chariots- but the Warner DVD/BluRay make it a simple intertitle. The only version you can see those scenes is the MGM/UA VHS/Laserdisc.
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