SInce I watched Fritz Lang’s Die Nibelungen films this week, I thought it’d be appropriate to ask what’s your favorite silent film?
There are plenty of great silent films from The Passion of Joan of Arc (pictured above) to countless Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton movies. Which one is your favorite?
The Lodger- Hitchcock
By: cartoonjelly on July 14, 2013
at 7:41 am
Nice pick. I haven’t seen that myself, but I heard that a lot of Hitchcock’s silents are being released on DVD.
By: ckckred on July 14, 2013
at 2:40 pm
I haven’t seen a lot of silent films. I really need to fix that. I have only liked three out of the ones I’ve seen: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Crowd, and The Artist. I would have to say that Caligari is my favorite out of all of those. Great to get some more suggestions though!
By: Hunter on July 14, 2013
at 10:41 am
Nice picks. I have only seen The Artist of the three you mentioned, but I’m planning to watch Dr. Caligari soon.
By: ckckred on July 14, 2013
at 2:41 pm
I’m glad you’ve seen Die Nibelungen. I remember seeing the whole thing in a cinema with live accompaniment quite a few years back, and it was wonderful, stirring stuff. I think The Passion of Joan of Arc is definitely up there, but for me my favourite silent film (one of my favourite films full stop) is Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans by F.W. Murnau. His Faust is also brilliant, so if you liked Die Nibelungen, I definitely think you’d dig Faust (if you haven’t seen it already!). As for comedies, I like most of Buster Keaton’s work (especially Sherlock, Jr.), though personally I find Chaplin a little trying, as I have a low tolerance for mawkishness.
By: Ewan M on July 14, 2013
at 3:48 pm
Nice picks! I haven’t seen Sunrise but I have watched Faust, which I really liked.
By: ckckred on July 15, 2013
at 7:22 am
I’m going to go with City Lights, incredibly charming.
By: ianthecool on July 14, 2013
at 3:49 pm
Nice pick, it’s a great film.
By: ckckred on July 15, 2013
at 7:22 am
I haven’t seen many silent films, but one I recently researched and enjoyed was Le Jetee by Chris Marker. I also watched ‘Cook Papa Cook’ (1928) which I discovered was a lost film and transferred from a surviving print! That was a really interesting watch. Safety Last’ (1923) staring Harold Lloyd is brilliant. And of course how can I forget the classic ‘A Trip to the Moon’ and like you said; the countless Charlie Chaplin sequences 🙂
By: meeradarjiyr1 on July 14, 2013
at 4:04 pm
A Trip To The Moon is a classic, I just saw it again the other day.
By: ckckred on July 15, 2013
at 7:21 am
D. W. Griffith’s “Intolerance.”
Josef von Sternberg’s “The Docks of New York.”
Erich von Stroheim’s “Greed.”
Yasujiro Ozu’s “I Was Born But. . .”
There are too many. 🙂
By: Thomas Priday on July 14, 2013
at 10:21 pm
Nice picks!
By: ckckred on July 15, 2013
at 7:21 am
Metropolis by Fritz Lang
By: Mark Hobin on July 15, 2013
at 3:21 am
Nice pick! Love that as well.
By: ckckred on July 15, 2013
at 7:21 am
I really haven’t seen enough silent films. I recently saw Metropolis and that probably jumps to the top, although Caligari is up there too.
By: Terry Malloy's Pigeon Coop on July 15, 2013
at 8:10 am
Nice picks! Metropolis is a stunning film. Also, for some reason wordpress put a lot of your comments as well as a few other bloggers’ in my spam filter. I’m not sure what’s going on, but I’m trying to retrieve all the comments.
By: ckckred on July 17, 2013
at 7:59 am
Haven’t seen too many of them though I grew up watching Laurel & Hardy movies. I’d say my fave so far is The Artist!
By: ruth on July 15, 2013
at 12:45 pm
Nice pick! The Artist is a superb film.
By: ckckred on July 15, 2013
at 5:55 pm
Nosferatu!
By: cindybruchman on July 15, 2013
at 4:19 pm
Nice pick! I’m a huge fan of the film as well. I always try to see it in October.
By: ckckred on July 15, 2013
at 5:55 pm
Probably City Lights, though I have quite enjoyed pretty much everything I have seen from Chaplin and Keaton.
By: Eric @ The Warning Sign on July 15, 2013
at 10:37 pm
Nice pick! Chaplin and Keaton were certainly masters of the genre.
By: ckckred on July 16, 2013
at 11:15 pm
“Battleship Potemkin”. It truly is an epic film, and holds-up well.
By: VictorsMovieReviews on July 16, 2013
at 6:39 pm
Nice pick! I’m not a huge fan of the film but it is quite epic.
By: ckckred on July 16, 2013
at 11:15 pm