Curious, do anons here actually watch older films? I'm talking stuff from the 1900's to the 1940's...

I used to often, but not so much anymore. The 40s were a kino time period for film.

Yeh man theres plenty of great b/w silver screen classics out there. Its just finding them in decent quality which is hard

Yeah, I watched everything from TSPDT up to 1940. It's around 200 films I think.

If it doesn't have sound it's literally unwatchable.

With Criterion, Masters of Cinema, Kino and similar companies it's not that hard anymore. Many of them were released on BluRay.

Get rid of your smartphone. Consciously avoid technology and social media unless necessary. That mental itch you get when you arent distracting yourself with your phone will disappear in a week.

I hardly use it unless Im on the shitter or on my lunch break

maybe its all this time on the computer

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incomplete_or_partially_lost_films
>This is necessarily an incomplete list. Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation claims that "half of all American films made before 1950 and over 90% of films made before 1929 are lost forever."[4] Deutsche Kinemathek estimates that 80–90% of silent films are gone;[5] the film archive's own list contains over 3500 lost films.
>all that kino, lost forever

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35 years before the current year is the oldest I go

Why? What a retarded rule.

Yes I watch older films, but it sort of varies with director.
Dreyer, yes, although I could understand people thinking his films are like watching paint dry.
Fritz Lang, is usually Kino.
After watching ‘Intolerance’ I sort of decided not to watch other Griffith.
Phantom of the Opera was excellent, so I like older “popular” Hollywood films.
Old British Black and White are usually good.

Are these from ‘Haxan...’?
I remember watching it, but being dissapointed. Individual scenes were excellent, but the overall movie didn’t do it for me.

I only have Prime for official streaming.
Prime doesn’t have classic Kino Silents like Fritz Lang.
Nobody uploads the films to the usual alternative streaming sites.
Feelz bad man.

You're correct, mine is but I believe OP's is from L'Inferno

Wish to fuck Theda Bara's Cleopatra had survived.

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the are good silent wwi movies, Hearts of the World, The Big Parade, Wings are great.

OP here, these are from L'Inferno. I may be wrong but I believe Haxxan actually recycled a few scenes from L'Inferno.

gee i wonder

Same, that's why I asked.

have you quit porn yet

Anyone that doesn't needs to get off this board.

>silent stuff
metropolis was the most I could stomach
talkies were invented for a reason. Black and white is cool though, they had to find some unique ways to use light and shadows

It's really a shame, they were either thrown out because they'd overstayed their use in the theater or caught fire in a studio archive because of the nitrate in the film.
Kills me a little inside every time I think about all those cool stills we have but no kino to go with them.

I guarantee most of these were unwatchable trash, most movies without words are dogshit

Most films which are lost were lost on purpose, particularly during the red scare when people were hiding their blatantly red propagandist films, but no one will admit that to the public.

Movies without words rely on actors emoting thru body movements and facial expression.
You can tell how good an actor is when watching silent films, because voice work can distract one from shitty acting.
Watch foreign films with the sound turned down, and you can see when actors are decent or just over hyped.
Once you add sound to films, it adds an extra important layer, but Kino films can be made without.

Sibel Kekilli won two acting awards, one for ‘Head-On/Gegen die Wand’, in Germany, and I tried watching the films with subtitles, and you could tell her acting was complete shit.
Turns out she was a porn star who “somehow” got into regular films.

True of most films, period. Also true of most art in any medium.

Silent film was an entirely different art form from talkies, involving highly developed pantomime.

don't force yourself watching movies you don't want to really.

Oldest movie I saw was a short called "Teddy at the Throttle"

I came out in 1917.

>Watching silent films
>mfw it's so boring I start jabbing my eyes out

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I've watched some, but they are all shit.
I don't watch movies to see over acting, bad sets, and terrible plot. If I want that I'll go to a theater, but I don't so I'll just watch movies.

the most sóylent opinion i've read today

wtf did they rip off fantasia

Yeah these films are difficult to watch now but you have to watch them in context, not like it's just a movie. These movies are interesting only because you can see people from 100 years ago. Although they're acting, it's a strange feeling having a window into that timeline.

seconded

Very rarely. They're often a bit too "abstract" for my taste. Unless you count stuff like cartoons, I watch those far more regularly than live-action films.