What is your favourite film from the silent era and why? I'll start: Die Nibelungen (1924), I've always liked epic films, and I think this is the most honest attempt to bring mythology to the big screen, great visuals, although still part of that tradition of 20's declamatory acting, in this context, it lends quite a Kubuki-esque quality to it. Utterly charming and enthralling, one of the few films that can actually claim to do justice to the material from which it is based.
Favourite Silent Film
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Ethan Davis
battleship potemkin is the best silent movie and I say it as an anti-communist
Julian Price
Cleopatra because Theda Bara is fucking hot. Someone needs to find her lost films pronto.
Adrian Anderson
David Flores
This and Intolerance.
Nicholas Rivera
Beat me to it.
It's the obvious pick, but it's obvious because it really is the goat of goats. And not one of you faggots better post intolerance or I will go upside your head
Luis Foster
only one ive seen is Napoleon
Leo Carter
Also
>Buster Keaton's filmography
>Nanook of the North
Noah Rogers
Son of a bitch
Joseph Brooks
film is gay, you are gay fags.
Carson Ramirez
Greed
Logan Ortiz
Die Nibelungen and Faust are the only good films ever made, everything else is pozzed
Gabriel Powell
What's your opinion of the Phantom Carriage?
Isaac James
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Jace Long
DN is pretty good. It's so fantastical. I have yet to watch the sequel. My favorite silent film is Murnau's Faust.
Honestly I didn't like this movie as much as I thought I would have considering the hype
I heard this is arguably one of the best movies ever. Have you seen it or are you memeing?
Jose Ortiz
it is one of the best movies ever along with Intolerance.
Lucas Torres
Faust probably. Still haven’t seen Die Nibelungen but love the story.
Blake Ross
Decent. Interesting to watch Sjostrom appear in his own picture. Need to watch again to take full stock of its mystical elements.
Jace Parker
This is also my favorite. The Last Command with Emil Jennings is #2 though
Cameron Adams
i kinda want to watch birth of a nation, but i'm afraid 3h silent movie may be too much for my rotten zoomer mind
Jack Perez
hey, a cool thread. thanks for the recs here. reckon ill start with Die Nibelungen (1924)
Carter Diaz
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this.
Brody Ramirez
>Faust
what year?
Bentley Roberts
Intolerance (1916)? I'll have to give it a watch.
Cooper Bennett
Girl Saying I Love You is my favorite silent film.
John Gomez
1926
David Robinson
thanks
Grayson Hill
German expressionism cinema is amazing.
Christopher Ramirez
Are you supposed to watch these movies in black and white or with those filters that make it different solid colors?
Jackson Reyes
>I heard this is arguably one of the best movies ever. Have you seen it or are you memeing?
Yes I have seen it. I don’t know if it’s my favorite movie ever but it’s up there and definitely my favorite silent movie.
Oliver Phillips
definitely Intolerance. Intolerance is it's own world, so full of characters and visuals it feels like a real place. I get lost in it, hang around in corners and back alleys of the movie, or just listen to the music for an hour or so.
Isaiah Bennett
oh shit bros, looks like faust might be in trouble
Nathan Jones
it has to be a Keaton but i cant pick one
Gavin Morgan
what makes it so compelling?
Sebastian Collins
Based thread have a bump. Never watched Die Nibelungen. Is this what you guys are talking about? Looks like 2 movies in a row.
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I have a hard time following silent movies because the shitty piano music makes me fall asleep. Up til now my favorite has probably been The General by Buster Keaton. I watched Intolerance and Greed and thought both of them were definitely interesting visually.
Parker King
why?
Liam Robinson
saw Greed last night, pretty good
Jack Sullivan
god gave the devil permission to corrupt his soul. not looking good so far. real talk though: is faust based of the book of job?
Ryder Collins
yeah it's two movies. Siegfried is the first one and Kriemhild's Revenge is the second one
Nathan Cooper
I don't know if I'd say 'favorite' but Beggars of Life is an underrated Lulukino.
I read her essay collection Lulu in Hollywood recently and it was fascinating, I highly recommend it to anyone interested in an insider view of Hollywood in the silent era
Levi Lopez
watch The Great White Silence, somebody added a zoomer doomer ambient soundtrack just for your kind. The original music was probably too triumphant and white.
William Gray
I'll check it out. One time I spent a whole weekend watching the New York Met's video of Wagner's ring cycle. It had subtitles and I followed it for the most part but still had a hard time keeping track of what all was going on. Curious to see how Lang's silent film treatment compares.
Michael Cooper
lol look i'm not a zoomer...don't tell me you actually like that old timey janky ass ragtime music.
Jose Lee
Oh I thought you were saying the movie Faust is in trouble because it's getting a lot of mentions in the thread. Faust is based on a German legend from the 16th century called Faust. Goethe made his own version three hundred years later I think. The only similarity it has with the book of Job is Mephisto making the bet with the angel.
Brayden Brooks
One Week (1920)
Caleb Rodriguez
I haven't even seen Kriemhild's Revenge so if you make it through all the way then you got further than me. I loved the first one but I couldn't bring myself to watch the second. My reasons have to do with the plot I won't spoil it.
Anthony Cox
1926. Get yourself the BluRay user
Elijah Lopez
Goethe and his Faust book were endlessly discussed by Nietzsche, Spengler, Schopenhauer, etc. It's a canonical work which makes it worth knowing about. Any idea how close to Goethe's treatment the movie is?
Chase Collins
Phantom of the Opera
This movie still holds up. Great film.
Grayson Martin
Tyler Ross
It has elements of the adaptions by Marlowe and Goethe but is mostly based on the original myth.
Isaiah Lewis
Is that a man?
The bitch from Metropolis also looks like a man.
Blake Richardson
The BFI's soundtrack actually made me cry towards the end. That boy's falsetto voice as the fate of the party is explained damn near killed me.
Oliver Martin
"don't tell me you actually like watching that janky black and white stuff"
Isaac Richardson
It was well done, but the film itself does 90% of the work.
Jason Ortiz
>tfw the wife buys you a nintendo switch
Jason Price
>pan twardowski>faust
Gabriel Hill
Isaiah Jones
absolute kino masterpiece
Asher Price
They're both bitches. The 20's valued androgyny.
Landon Price
I just really like Metropolis everything about the film appeals to me. I think intolerance is probably a better film overall but i don't find it as appealing.
Ayden White
this is so based