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 Posted:   Feb 3, 2014 - 6:28 PM   
 By:   Viscount Bark   (Member)

1. Love Me Tonight (1932) (Mamoulian)

2. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) {Dreyer)

3. City Lights (1931) (Chaplin)

4. Sons of the Desert (1933) (Seiter)

5. Duck Soup (1933) (McCarey)

5. Horse Feathers (1932) (McLeod)

7. Le Million (1932) (Clair)

8. Flying Down to Rio (1933) (Freeland)

9. The Last Command (1928) (Sternberg)

10. The Broadway Melody (1929) (Beaumont)

11. The Blood of a Poet (1930) (Cocteau)

12. Steamboat Bill, jr. (1928) (Keaton/Reisner)

13. Lonesome (1928) (Fejos)

14. Morocco (1930) (Sternberg)

15. Pandora's Box (1929) (Pabst)

also good: The Bat Whispers, The Man Who Laughs, People on Sunday, Animal Crackers, The Cocoanuts, Dracula, The Docks of New York, 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933, Grand Hotel, The Italian Straw Hat, King Kong, Monkey Business, The Most Dangerous Game, Mystery of the Wax Museum, Tabu.

still need to see: All Quiet on the Western Front, Applause, The Big Trail, The Bitter Tea of General Yen, Blackmail, Boudu Saved from Drowning, La Chienne, The Circus, The Crowd, Design for Living, Earth, Good News, M, Queen Kelly, Shanghai Express, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, Under the Roofs of Paris, Vampyr....and many, many more.

Anyone here have favorites from this late silent/early talkie period?

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 3, 2014 - 6:49 PM   
 By:   jenkwombat   (Member)

City Lights
King Kong
Duck Soup
The Most Dangerous Game

 
 Posted:   Feb 3, 2014 - 7:22 PM   
 By:   Adam.   (Member)

Frankenstein (1931)

King Kong (1933)

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 3, 2014 - 7:35 PM   
 By:   Michael24   (Member)

Not a period of film I'm very familiar with. However, I love The Most Dangerous Game. I also like King Kong, although I haven't seen it much.

Would like to see The Bat Whispers and The Man Who Laughs.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 4, 2014 - 4:01 AM   
 By:   jenkwombat   (Member)

Wow... I can't believe I forgot "Frankenstein" and "Dracula" (English & Spanish versions). Add them to my list.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 4, 2014 - 4:05 AM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

Great list, Mark, that includes both American and "non-American" films. I feel that the reliance on Hollywood is too big here sometimes.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 4, 2014 - 4:59 AM   
 By:   Angelillo   (Member)

I feel that the reliance on Hollywood is too big here sometimes.

And you'll be very welcome to take part in these threads and put a light on some unknown scandinavian gems !

 
 Posted:   Feb 4, 2014 - 12:12 PM   
 By:   Viscount Bark   (Member)

Definitely! It's easy for me to remain "English-language-centric" when it comes to films, so the more good movies I know about from other lands, the better!

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 5, 2014 - 1:19 AM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

I feel that the reliance on Hollywood is too big here sometimes.

And you'll be very welcome to take part in these threads and put a light on some unknown scandinavian gems !


I try to do so once in a while (see my "Cinema Club" thread series, for example).

In this case, Mark covered quite a few of my own picks too.

Incidentally, I'm even more interested in the silent era prior to 1928.

 
 Posted:   Feb 6, 2014 - 8:56 PM   
 By:   Essankay   (Member)

What an odd stretch of film history you've chosen to lump together, Mark, encompassing the final, great flowering of the silent era and the first tentative years of the sound era. I've winnowed down my single-year lists and come up with this:

  • 42nd STREET
  • L'AGE D'OR
  • BEGGARS OF LIFE
  • BLACKMAIL
  • BLONDE VENUS
  • BOUDU SAUVE DES EAUX
  • THE CAMERAMAN
  • THE CIRCUS
  • CITY LIGHTS
  • THE DOCKS OF NEW YORK
  • FRANKENSTEIN
  • KING KONG
  • LOVE ME TONIGHT
  • M
  • LE MILLION
  • PANDORA'S BOX
  • THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC
  • SCARFACE
  • SHE DONE HIM WRONG
  • SPIES
  • STEAMBOAT BILL, JR.
  • THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE
  • TROUBLE IN PARADISE
  • VAMPYR

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     Posted:   Feb 12, 2014 - 4:15 PM   
     By:   Angelillo   (Member)

    My 5 favourite films of 1928, not including the obvious out-of-competition status for
    Chaplin's THE CIRCUS, are :

    L'ARGENT
    BEGGARS OF LIFE
    UN CHAPEAU DE PAILLE D'ITALIE
    LONESOME
    THE WIND




    My 5 favourite films of 1929 are :

    ASPHALT
    BLACKMAIL
    DIE BÜCHSE DER PANDORA
    FINIS TERRAE
    TAGEBUCH EINER VERLORENEN



    My favourite films of 1930 are :

    THE BIG TRAIL - The 70mm Print
    DER BLAUE ENGEL
    HELL'S ANGELS
    LILIOM
    PRIX DE BEAUTE




    My 5 favourite films of 1931, not including the obvious out-of-competition status for
    Chaplin's CITY LIGHTS and Lang's M, are :

    DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
    LA FIN DU MONDE
    THE LAST FLIGHT
    POSSESSED
    SAFE IN HELL




    My 5 favourite films of 1932, not including the obvious out-of-competition status for
    Leroy's I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG, are :

    AMERICAN MADNESS
    BROKEN LULLABY
    ONE WAY PASSAGE
    SCARFACE
    TROUBLE IN PARADISE



    My 5 favourite films of 1933, not including the obvious out-of-competition status for
    Borzage's MAN'S CASTLE and Cooper/Schoedsack's KING KONG are :

    42ND STREET
    DESIGN FOR LIVING
    GABRIEL OVER THE WHITE HOUSE
    DAS TESTAMENT DES DR. MABUSE
    WILD BOYS OF THE ROAD




    And so, my 5 favourite films of 1928-1933 are :

    THE CIRCUS
    CITY LIGHTS
    LONESOME
    MAN'S CASTLE
    UN CHAPEAU DE PAILLE D'ITALIE

     
     Posted:   Feb 12, 2014 - 11:43 PM   
     By:   Essankay   (Member)

    I've already posted my consolidated list, but here are the year-by-year lists (thanks for the inspiration, Angelillo!)


    1928

  • L'ARGENT
  • BEGGARS OF LIFE
  • THE CAMERAMAN
  • UN CHAPEAU DE PAILLE D'ITALIE
  • THE CIRCUS
  • THE CROWD
  • THE DOCKS OF NEW YORK
  • THE LAST COMMAND
  • THE MAN WHO LAUGHS
  • OCTOBER (TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD)
  • THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC
  • SHOW PEOPLE
  • SPEEDY
  • SPIES
  • STEAMBOAT BILL, JR.
  • STORM OVER ASIA
  • STREET ANGEL
  • THE WEDDING MARCH
  • THE WIND


    Need to see:

    4 Devils (!)
    Les deux timides
    The Dragnet (!)
    Ladies of the Mob
    Lonesome
    The Racket
    Street of Sin
    Zvenigora




    1929

  • APPLAUSE
  • ARSENAL
  • ASPHALT
  • BLACKMAIL
  • A COTTAGE ON DARTMOOR
  • DIARY OF A LOST GIRL
  • THE NEW BABYLON
  • OLD AND NEW
  • PANDORA'S BOX
  • PICCADILLY
  • SPITE MARRIAGE


    Need to see:

    Finis terrae
    Hallelujah
    Lucky Star
    Manolescu - Der König der Hochstapler
    White Hell of Pitz Palu
    The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna




    1930

  • L'AGE D'OR
  • ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
  • CITY GIRL
  • THE BLUE ANGEL
  • THE DAWN PATROL
  • EARTH
  • HELL'S ANGELS
  • MENSCHEN AM SONTAG
  • MOROCCO
  • PRIX DE BEAUTE
  • SOUS LES TOITS DE PARIS
  • WESTFRONT 1918


    Need to see:

    Au bonheur des dames
    Journey's End
    Liliom (Borzage)
    La petite Lise




    1931

  • DIE 3 GROSCHEN-OPER
  • LA CHIENNE
  • CITY LIGHTS
  • DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE
  • FRANKENSTEIN
  • M
  • LE MILLION
  • MONKEY BUSINESS
  • A NOUS LA LIBERTE
  • PARDON US
  • THE PUBLIC ENEMY
  • TABU


    Need to see:

    An American Tragedy
    Berlin-Alexanderplatz (Jutzi)
    City Streets
    The Criminal Code
    Dishonored
    Emil und die Detektive
    Five Star Final
    The Front Page (Milestone)
    Homicide Squad
    Der Kongress tanzt
    The Last Flight
    Der Mörder Dimitri Karamasoff
    Night Nurse
    Safe in Hell
    Street Scene
    Waterloo Bridge




    1932

  • BLONDE VENUS
  • BOUDU SAUVE DES EAUX
  • LES CROIX DE BOIS
  • HORSE FEATHERS
  • I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG
  • ISLAND OF LOST SOULS
  • IF I HAD A MILLION
  • LOVE ME TONIGHT
  • RED DUST
  • SCARFACE
  • SHANGHAI EXPRESS
  • TROUBLE IN PARADISE
  • VAMPYR


    Need to see:

    The Beast of the City
    Fanny
    Merry-Go-Round
    Radio Patrol
    Three on a Match
    What Price Hollywood?



    1933

  • 42nd STREET
  • BABY FACE
  • DESIGN FOR LIVING
  • DUCK SOUP
  • FOOTLIGHT PARADE
  • GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933
  • I'M NO ANGEL
  • THE INVISIBLE MAN
  • KING KONG
  • SHE DONE HIM WRONG
  • SONS OF THE DESERT
  • THE STORY OF TEMPLE DRAKE
  • THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE


    Need to see:

    Convention City (!)
    Counsellor at Law
    Employees' Entrance
    Du haut en bas
    The Kiss Before the Mirror
    Laughter in Hell
    Man's Castle
    Midnight Mary
    Okraina
    La tête d'un homme

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     Posted:   Feb 13, 2014 - 4:46 AM   
     By:   Angelillo   (Member)

    Need to see:
    White Hell of Pitz Palu


    Along with DAS BLAUE LICHT it's the best "german mountain movie" I've seen !





    And I also strongly recommend S.O.S. EISBERG





     
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