Your top 5 silent films

Battleship Potemkin (1925)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
City Lights (1931)
The General (1926)

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why is your taste so boring

Metropolis
Nosferatu
L'Inferno
Battleship Potemkin
The Passion of Joan of Arc

I'm well aware it's not an exciting list.

3/60 trees in autumn (kren, 1960)
aleph (berman, 1966)
at land (Derek, 1944)
mothlight (brakhage, 1963)
at sea (Hutton, 2007)

Name me a more action packed silent film than Battleship Potemkin.

*deren

Star Wars on mute.

the movies aren't boring; your taste is
and, menilmontant

>L'Inferno
What is this?

Tabu
Greed
The Parson's Widow
Intolerance
The Last Command

Metropolis
Nosferatu
Phantom of the Opera
The Golem
Cabinet of Dr.Caligari

Yeah, I pretty much just stick to sci-fi and horror.

This was great for a modern silent film, imho.

sunrise
7th heaven
street angel
lucky star

Has everyone forgot about this film?
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Not silent

I liked this one, Les Vampires

Also
Sunrise, The Cameraman, Safety Last, Lucky Star

>lucky star
Fuckin A

Is this movie good or is it a meme. Or is it both?

Greed
Nosferatu
Call of Cthulhu
Metropolis
He Who Gets Slapped

my nigga
Janet Gaynor is so fucking cute holy shit

The middle segment in Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Three Times is silent.

Yep

I also just realized all your picks are her films. Only seen Sunrise and Lucky Star. I'll add those two to my list.

Retarded aren't we?
>Language: Silent (English intertitles)

It is a good movie, I recommend. 74% chance you will cry.

>no mention of Napoleon

m.youtube.com/watch?v=_58I2YrkKdk

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'Inferno

The first feature length film made in Italy.

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Truly retarded.
>A silent film is a film with no spoken dialogue.
One line just before the credits doesn't fucking count. You know the flag in Battleship Potemking (1925) is colored in red, that doesn't make a film not black-and-white.

A silent movie is a movie without sound

the artist (2011) was kino

It's one of the only recent AA winners to actually deserve that honor.

>want to bump thread
>have pleb taste in silent films
>most the ones i like have been posted

Shit thread but I will contribute

Anybody came across a film with sound that also works as a silent? (no subtitles allowed)

The test of a great film is if it can be enjoyed with the sound off.

Any modern flick like Star Wars or Ghostbusters. You might as well turn off the monitor, it will only get better.

>no Fairbanks
>no Chaplin
>no Keaton
do you people just hate fun?

The Artist was pretty good

La vie nouvelle / Un lac

That's nonsense

>no Keaton

I posted The Cameraman right here

The Cameraman is Keaton isn't it?

>That's nonsense
How so?

It can still have live music and title cards or no? Something like Under the Skin would probably work.

Film is primarily a visual medium and if it can't be entertaining on that level alone it has failed.

The Anvil Hoarder (1930)

Die Nibelungen
My Best Girl
Earth
Der heilige Berg
Tabu

film is primarily a visual medium but that doesn't mean every film needs to be primarily visual, which is why a movie like Blue is great

If it isn't primarily visual then why is it a film at all?

Because it uses visuals

But using them in a cinematic way is the question that decides greatness. Few films do this.

Yes it is, friend. Watch it if you haven't already.

Siegfried nigga gots good imagery

Thanks. Watched a bit of Keaton when I was a kid along with Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy and Three Stooges stuff. More than long enough ago for a rewatch.

No, do you also say silent films are not great because they don't make use of sound? Don't be silly. Film is a combination of sound and image in varying configurations. Don't try to pigeonhole art into your ideal.

Also watch The General, and Sherlock Jr for Keaton.

and Safety Last! with Harold Lloyd. It's intense.

1. Man with a Movie Camera (1929) by Dziga Vertov
2. New York Subway (1905) by Billy Bitzer
3. The Docks of New York (1928) by Josef von Sternberg
4. Japanese Girls at the Harbor (1933) by Hiroshi Shimizu
5. Sunrise (1927) by F. W. Murnau

That's kind of a strange logic. A film written by someone like Woody Allen or Billy Wilder would become extremely dull to watch as most of their appeal comes from characterization through dialogue.
Even visual masterpieces such as Lawrence of Arabia would then be 90% staring at peoples' faces moving.

Added to the list.

Five films, that aren't necessarily my five absolute favourite, but which I very much like nevertheless.

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Faust
Broken Blossoms
The Phantom Carriage
Intolerance

This one was kinda cool.

this is literally the top 5 silent movies in the TSPDT top 1000

No, I just checked. In TSPDT it's as follows:
Sunrise
Battleship Potemkin
The Passion of Joan of Arc
The Man with a Movie Camera
City Lights

Why would you post something like this without checking?

whatever, close enough. The General comes right after

3 iron and spring, summer... ?

Metropolis
The Docks of New York
Faust
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Way Down East

Those are arguably the best most influental masterpieces of silent era, what surprises you to see them in different lists?

>Anybody came across a film with sound that also works as a silent? (no subtitles allowed)

Soderbergh said that Raiders of the Lost Ark can perfectly work as a silent film

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being the cinema autist he is, I trust him

The fact that it's almost the exact same list. 'your taste is boring' is an understatement. Having a few critically acclaimed masterpieces in your all time favourites is one thing, but your top 5 out of dozens and dozens of great films just so happening to match the top 6 of the TSPDT list leads me to believe OP made these picks up on the fly to start a thread.

>all these entry-level films

1. Orphans of the Storm
2. The Wind
3. The Gold Rush
4. Broken Blossoms
5. Red Lily

If you have seen them you know how great they are. Lists like TSPDT are not opinion of single person, they are like votes of many people, having approximately the same favorite films is absolutely normal.

Yes, I'm that Gishfag.

>Orphans of the Storm

Based Incestuous Gishes

The Mark of Zorro (1920)
Last of the Mohicans (1920)
Metropolis (1927)

I will eat anything with women with that look, that pale make up, that short hair cut etc

It's a plus that it's silent so I don't have to listen to German. But mainly it's the color.
This kind of women and their makeup only work in black and white

I am going to see this Chinese silent movie by Ruan Lingyu

idk anything about silent film but i thought menilmontant was pretty amazing.

also, 23rd psalm branch.

...

1- Coeur Fidèle
2- City Girl
3- Ménilmontant
4- Der Letzte Mann
5- Entr'acte

(not my top5, just underseen classics)

>The Mark of Zorro (1920)
nice

fugue?

City Lights
Broken Blossoms
Yukoku
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Metropolis

I don't watch enough silent films.

meme

>Marguerite De La Motte

prettypretty

No. I'm that OTHER Gishfag.

why only old ones?

What about Baraka and Holy Mountain

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This

Sunrise - A Song of Two Humans
Sherlock Jr.
Haxan
The Big Parade
Broken Blossoms

Lol no
Having the same taste as an AGGREGATE is unusual (unless you're someone who's seen an extremely low number of films).

Here are my all-time favorite films, does this looks like aggregate too?

2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)
Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)
The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)