1. City Lights 2. Sunrise 3. The General 4. The Passion of Joan of Arc 5. Intolerance 6. Metropolis 7. The Gold Rush 8. Battleship Potemkin 9. The Last Laugh 10. Napoleon
...Modern Times..along with City Lights..are amongst my favorites..some others are The Unknown..Cabinet of Dr. Caligari..Our Dancing Daughters..Napolean..Seven Chances..Ben Hur..
"...Modern Times..along with City Lights..are amongst my favorites..some others are The Unknown..Cabinet of Dr. Caligari..Our Dancing Daughters..Napolean..Seven Chances..Ben Hur.. "
1. The Last Laugh 2. The Thief of Baghdad 3. Way Down East 4. Wings 5. The Unknown 6. Faust 7. Man With a Movie Camera 8. Metropolis 9. Sherlock, Jr. 10. The Circus
1.Greed 2.Metropolis 3.City Lights 4.Napoleon 5.Passion of Joan of Arc 6.Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 7.Battleship Potemkin 8.Die Nibelungen 9.Nosferatu 10.The General
Sorry but I have to do five more
11.The Freshman 12.Intolerance 13.Safety Last 14.The Gold Rush 15.Phantom of the Opera
1. Sunrise 2. Modern Times 3. City Lights 4. The Crowd 5. Sherlock Jr. 6. Our Hospitality 7. Passion of Joan of Arc 8. Strike! 9. Un Chien Andalou 10. Nanook of the North
Sadly I haven't watched must silents who can recommend me silents? I'm not much a know-how in silents except for Murnau.
MOST OVERRATED SILENT PIC: PANDORA'S BOX!!!!! AGGHHHHH
Of those not mentioned above, I would recommend the following:
Intolerance D.W. Griffith 1916 Broken Blossoms D.W. Griffith 1919 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Robert Wiene 1919 The Kid Charles Chaplin 1921 Nosferatu, a Symphony of Terror F.W. Murnau 1922 Safety Last Fred Newmeyer & Sam Taylor 1923 Greed Erich Von Stroheim 1924 The Last Laugh F.W. Murnau 1924 Battleship Potemkin Sergei Eisenstein 1925 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Fred Niblo 1925 The Big Parade King Vidor 1925 The Gold Rush Charles Chaplin 1925 Faust F.W. Murnau 1926 Metropolis Fritz Lang 1926 The General Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton 1926 Napoléon Abel Gance 1927 A Cottage on Dartmoor Anthony Asquith 1929 Man with a Movie Camera Dziga Vertov 1929 Tabu: A Story of the South Seas F.W. Murnau 1931
1. The Crowd (King Vidor 1928) I have yet to see The Big Parade. 2. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Valentino 1921) 3. For Heaven's Sake (Harold Lloyd 1926) 4. The Unholy Three (Lon Chaney 1925) 5. Tell It to the Marines (Lon Chaney 1926) 6. Safety Last (Harold Lloyd 1923) 7. Napoleon (Abel Gance 1927) 8. Intollerance (Griffith 1916) 9. The Eagle (Valentino 1925) 10 Greed (Von Stroheim 1924)
I just saw Sunrise, and it does not qualify for my list.
I'm curious to know why you think G.W. Pabst's Pandora's Box is overrated? I've always felt that the film was simply a tour de force of cinematic eroticism and one of the great films about the mysterious allure of the female form and the destructive power of the male gaze that's inflicted upon it. Pabst was most certainly a psychologically astute filmmaker and Louise Brooks is undeniably shockingly sensual and charismatic, truly offering a brilliantly guileless performance. Therefore, I'd still give films like leading German filmmaker Joe May's Asphalt, which was filmed by cinematographer Günther Rittau (Die Nibelungen, Metropolis, Der blaue Engel) and Ewald Andre Dupont's Variété a look even though both films focus on similar themes, men seduced and humiliated by femme fatale, yet startling achievements.
In my opinion, Pandora's Box is just not at all cinematic. It is a very theatrical movie. I agree that Louise Brooks is phenomenal in that role and its view on sexuality is very modern but in its cinematic terms it is lacking. I mean I felt, my opinion, the movie was very flat, it was a so-so film there wasn't particularly interesting about how Pabst style was infused to the erotic charged story and I am sorry to say it felt a very bit boring because Pandora's was very conventional in its period (the silent age where you got Soviet Montage, Expressionism, Surrealsim and Vidor's The Crowd) and Pandora's Box falls into the ordinary.
...I'm a bit the same as odessydave..I taped Pandora's Box off of the BRAVO station back in the 80s..and while I like it....I just don't see what all the hoopla is about!!??!THe thing what I liked most..and what is a deteriming factor in why I'd get the Criterion version..is ..if it had the wonderful brooding piano score that the old Janus films version had..It keeps repeating the same theme over and over again in a most mesmerizing way!
Don't let the fact that the piano score from Janus FIlms isn't included. There are FOUR different scores to choose from and one in particular that is fantastic. The print looks considerably better and has more footage (and runs closest to the correct fps) than anything shown on television or old VHS releases. Don't hesitate to buy the Criterion of PANDORA'S BOX, as it is a must have!
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1.The kid 2.Sunrise 3.City Lights 4.The Gold Rush 5.Metropolis 6.Phantom of the Opera 7.Hunchback of Notre Dame 8.The Freshman 9.Nosferatu 10.Birth of a Nation
1. Battleship Potemkin 2. Un chien andalou 3. Nosferatu 4. Metropolis 5. October 6. Furcht (Fear) 7. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 8. City Lights 9. The Passion of Joan of Arc 10. The Phantom of the Opera 11. The Golem 12. The Kid 13. The Gold Rush 14. Sunrise 15. The General 16. Spione 17. Dr. Mabuse 18. The Lodger 19. The Circus 20. Sherlock Jr. 21. Intolerance 22. Woman in the Moon 23. The Last Laugh 24. El automóvil gris 25. Wings
Bonus Not entirely silent films that IMO deserves to be named: "Modern Times" by Chaplin and "L'âge d'or" by Luis Buñuel
1. The Last Laugh 2. Sunrise 3. Dr. Mabuse the gambler 4. Die Nibelungen 5. Pandora's Box 6. Man with the movie camera 7. Faust 8. Haxan 9. The Cabinett of Dr. Caligari 10. Passion of Joan of Arc