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| The Movies Begin vol. 1: The Great Train Robbery & Other Primary Works (2002)
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| Kino's great five-disc collection of early cinematic watersheds |
| Treasures from American Film Archives (Disc 1 of 4) (1893-1968)
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| A great big grab bag of restored films from all eras. features some obscure and nearly lost silents |
| By Brakhage: An Anthology (Criterion Collection) (Disc 1 of 2) (1964)
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| if you're ready to explode your preconceptions about what cinema is, rent this. it'll change the way you see. |
| The Passion of Joan of Arc (Criterion Collection) (1928)
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| one of the most beautifully shot films of the silent (or any other) era |
| Man With a Movie Camera (1929)
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| go back to a time when filmmakers were still trying to decide what movies could (or should) do, before hollywood standardized the form and cemented the narrative formula that gives us the tripe we see today. |
| Battleship Potemkin (1925)
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| montage. political and cinematic revolution. |
| Earth/The End of St. Petersburg/Chess Fever (1930)
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| a what's what of soviet dialectic filmmaking |
| Nanook of the North (Criterion Collection) (1922)
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| loving representation of inuit life |
| Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (Disc 1 of 2) (1924)
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| loving representation of germanic myth |
| The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Restored Authorized Edition) (1919)
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| the origins of noir |
| Intolerance (1916)
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| a lavish visual smorgasbord |
| Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927)
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| very much lifted from MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA, but worth a sustained peek |
| Begotten (1991)
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| modern silent that gets back to film as a visual medium. silent as form rather than historical curio. and it's seriously f'ed up. |
| Nosferatu (1922)
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| murnau the light painter |
| Sunrise (1927)
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| be-YOO-tee-ful. technically not a silent (movietone score and diegetic sound effects added at last minute) |
| Kino-Eye/Three Songs of Lenin (1934)
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| more dialectic social outcry from vertov |
| Mother (1926)
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| more beautiful soviet agitprop |
| Decasia: The State of Decay (2002)
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| sometimes we forget films are physical objects. and that our bodies are, too... |
| Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
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| louise brooks, the silent hottie par excellence |
| Faust (1926)
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| one of murnau's best |
| The Golem (1920)
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| eerily prescient of nazi ideology |
| It (1927)
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| miss clara bow was indeed "it." |
| The Last Laugh (1924)
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| murnau dared to move the camera |
| Modern Times (Criterion) (1936)
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| great movie, and a great example of the weird hybrid part-talkies of the early sound era |
| The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
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| lon chaney was one of the best screen actors ever. |
| Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002)
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| i can't WAIT until this one comes out. maddin's a delirious genius. |
| The Lon Chaney Collection (Disc 1 of 2) (1927)
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| laugh, clown, laugh; cry, viewer, cry |
| The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
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| early bunuel on DVD is a rare thing indeed. |
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