Silent movies

List

I have to start writing them down before i forget

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Lilian Harvey in "Her dark spot"

• Menschen untereinander (1926) von Gerhard Lamprecht wiki
• The end of sank Petersburg -Конец Санкт-Петербурга (1927) Vsevolod Pudovkin
• cyankali -cyanide (1930) Hans Tintner
• In spring - Весной (1929) Mijail Kaufmann
• Du sollst deine Frau ehren (1925)Carl Theodor Dreyer
• Aelita, the queen of mars (1924) Yakov Protazanov
• Metropolis (1927) Fritz Lang
• Unter der Laterne (1928) Gerhard Lamprecht
• Berlin, die Sinfonie der Grosstadt (1927) Walther Ruttmann
• October, Ten Days That Shook the World (1928)Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
• Ihr Dunkler Punkt (1928) Johannes Guter link
• Cosmic Journey [Kosmicheskij Rejs](1936) Vasili Zhuravlev.very abstract series of images movie.
• The New Babylon/ Новый Вавилон (1929) Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg.
• Prästänkan (The Parson’s Widow) (1920) Carl Theodor Dreyer
• The Lodger: A Story of London Fog (1927)Alfred Hitchcock
• Downhill (1927) Alfred Hitchcock
• Ich möchte kein Mann sein (1918) Ernst Lubitsch.
• Variete (1925) not sure about this one.
• Lost of sensation - гибель сенсации (1935) Alexander Andriyesvski does not pass the Brechdel test-
• Der Schneider von Torshok (1925) Jakov Protasanov - a lotery ticket plays a central role in this movie as well as in the girl with the hatbox. no wonder this movies finds itself in the NEP-era that happened from 1921 till 1928. The movie also has a sort of anti-nep critique in which Katia the saleswoman has to deal with her NEp explotative boss.
• The girl with the hatbox - Девушка с коробкой-(1927) Boris Barnet -
• Zvenigora (1928) Alexander Dvozenko
• Arsenal (1929) Alexander Dvozenko
• Earth -Земля (1930) Alexander Dvozenko
• The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks -Необычайные приключения мистера Веста в стране Большевиков (1924) Lev Kuleshow
• Menschen am Sonntag (1929) Robert Siodmak.
• Safety Last (1923) with Harold Lloyd wiki
• Man with a Movie Camera -кино глаз(1929) Dziga Vertov
• the Kid (1921) Chaplin and the new masculinity of raising a baby alone.
• Gold Rush (1925) Chaplin
• Stride, Soviet! (1926) Dziga Vertov. "What began as a commission by the sitting Moscow Soviet for a promotional movie," says the Harvard Film Archive, "was transformed by Vertov into something else entirely: a film experiment, an emotional film – anything but a picture that would help the Mossovet be reelected. El film sigue la estetica de "Kino Glas" mucha imagen, poco hilo conductor. es imposible darse cuenta que es un film de propaganda politico, de hecho algunas ideas son repetidas tantas veces que ya te hace desear que termine, si lo siento este film se me hizo largo, igual lo disfrute.
• Bed and Sofa (1927) Третья Мещанская. Abraham Room. Its a film i wanted to watch since a long time! this film is supposed to portray a threesome, well i dont think is enough to just live in the same house to have a threesome, so to my and everybodys disappointment, there is no threesome, the 2 male characters are friendly and civilized about the fact that they end up dating the same lady (the wife of one of them) this is cool but thats it. The shores at home are pretty much understood to be taken by the female character, which interestingly enough and contrary to the NEP times, does not work outside the house. Nevertheless she does dress like the NEP,... mmm i have to research into this, also on the late night bread-buzing going, also on the person that turns on the street lights, also on the abortion clinic, "announced in the english subtitles as privat clinc". finally, this films has awesome footage of Moscow. link1 link 2 link 3
• Häxan (1922) written and directed by Benjamin Christensen. Based partly on Christensen's study of the Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th-century German guide for inquisitors, Häxan is a study of how superstition and the misunderstanding of diseases and mental illness could lead to the hysteria of the witch-hunts.[3] The film was made as a documentary but contains dramatised sequences that are comparable to horror films.
• Modern Times Chaplin (1936) i can not believe it took my sooo long to finally watch this movie, simply awesome! so political, and soo atemporal, i will be delighted to read some analysis on the mentioning of a work related "breakdown" (i seriosly thought this is a "modern" say neinties concept) and the nose-powder-cocaine reference. awesome!
• City lights (1931) also a chaplin one, also very worth seeing, i was mislead to think that this one was "candilejas" en español, pero no, esa es limelight, and the confusion lies on the light part. what do they mean?

  El limelight, también conocido como luz de calcio o luz de Drummond, es un tipo de luz de escenario, que se utilizó en teatros y music halls en el siglo XIX. Funciona cuando una llama de oxihidrógeno se proyecta sobre una malla cilíndrica de cal viva (óxido de calcio),1​ que puede llegar a 2.572 Cº antes de fundirse, genera una iluminación de alta intensidad. La luz se produce por una combinación de incandescencia y candoluminiscencia. Aunque ya hace mucho tiempo que se sustituyó por el arco eléctrico, el término ha sobrevivido en Inglaterra: cuando alguien es un personaje público famoso, se dice que está in the limelight (cuyo equivalente en el lenguaje español es en el «candelero», es decir en el foco de atención).

  which makes me think that "candileja" is some other spanish version, that am not familiar with, cause for me it makes no sense, no relation, not like "candela" o candil o candelabro, en fin.
• Fraulein Else (1929) this title basically doesnt say much but this movie is amazing! first the original german version is lost so they remade it out of an italian plus a danish version, in short, the subtitles had to be re-subtitled into german. I would call the whole plot a meta reference (of course i mean this one is first) to "propuesta indecente" con demi moore aja ahora me acorde del nombre de ella pero ni idea como se llama esta peli en English, en fin. at the cinema they said the movie got ban and bla bla i couldnt find references of that, there is though a krakauer (!!) critic on wikipedia, it seems he found it plain, whatever. i like it, it has a lot of tension and this tension is very well develop )))).
• Jujiro (1928) Teinosuke Kinugasa. I guess the interesting thing of this film is to pick on all the cultural references that one as "western" doesn't understand at first. the story in itself is not so awesome and also not so clear, but there are some siblings and the guy is "in love" with a geisha and he goes into fights and the sister has to cure him and take care of him, so much so that she thinks of going into sex work to get money for him, which brings us to one scene where 2 woman talk about money and not men! (Brechdel test) but still the pimp is not a character. the other interesting thing is the police stick that someone "found in the street" and at least from the movie it sounds that u just need that to become a police. then the other thing is the crocked teeth, which i have read is a thing in japan (yaeba). and finally the white powder... is this a fashion thing? or a geisha only thing? i guess it also depend on the epoch. finally the director had a soviet cooperation for a movie in 1966 which should be interesting Маленький беглец
• La Boheme (1926) King Vidor