Some Of My Favorite Silent Films/30's/40's Movies

The final list. Pick your favorite.

Went with Rope, my favorite Hitchcock film. I could have made a list of 25 for the thirties alone, and ditto for the forties.

A few of my favs:
White Heat
Double Indemnity
Laura
They Drive By Night
The Petrified Forest
Sullivan's Travels
The Roaring Twenties
Angels With Dirty Faces
The Stranger
The Set Up

Voted for Un Chien Andalou. I wouldn't have minded seeing L'Atalante, Sunrire, Vampyr and Körkarlen on the list.

I have seen many of these, some more than 5 times.

Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens, a masterpiece, the best of the list, one of my top movies of all time and probably my favorite Dracula movie ever (with Dracula 1958 and Coppola's one - I've seen them all really).

Battleship Potemkin - quite impressive movie, I saw it only once but since I own it you've made me decide to watch it again. The power of the images conceived by Eisenstein is imposing.

City Lights - another masterpiece. If one doesn't feel something inside with the last scene, one's not human. The best display of the biggest movie genius ever. The best in the list but my love for the Count forced my vote...

Dracula 1931 - important movie, I've seen it million times. Lugosi is really terrible but his weird performance somewhat works. Too theatrical and static, time has not been kind with this legendary overrated portrayal of the Count.

Frankenstein - what a difference a few months and another director make. Not quite as brilliant as 1935's Bride of Frankenstein, but a fantastic movie nevertheless, with one of the most legendary make-ups in movie history and Karloff's literally towering portrayal of the creature.

King Kong - better than all the remakes. Feels newer than all of them. Enough said.

Wizard of Oz - somewhat disappointing for me. It has its magic.

Modern times - not in the league of Gold Rush or City Lights but still way above what anybody else could ever make.

Gone with the Wind - I love this movie. I have sit through its 4 hours more than 4 times, never bored.

Fantasia - classical music and Mickey. Enough said. Magic.

Citizen Kane - first time I saw it I didn't love it. Second time I started to grasp its mastery. Oh Rosebud, next time you'll be mine.

Casablanca - slightly overrated for me but it has Humphrey Bogart. Enough said.



Edited by The T - July 25 2012 at 10:20

thellama73 wrote: The T wrote: Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens, a masterpiece, the best of the list, one of my top movies of all time and probably my favorite Dracula movie ever (with Dracula 1958 and Coppola's one - I've seen them all really). Nosferatu was the first silent film I ever saw and still one of my favorites (although the Thief of Baghdad with Douglas Fairbanks is jaw-droppingly great.) I too am a fan of Coppola's Dracula and am pleased to see that I am not the only one (as it often seems I am.)

I love that movie. Keanu and Winona poor acting nothwithstanding, is fantastic. I forgot to mention Herzog's Nosferatu remake among my top Dracula films. No Count towers over Christopher Lee though.

Having said that, it's not much saying that I like Coppola's Dracula. I even enjoy Al Adamson's Dracula vs Frankenstein so it doesn't take much to make me enjoy a Count movie

The latter one I haven't seen. The former one of course. I also like it even if Branagh's camera is totally schizophrenic in that movie. Also, it has a lot of holes but still, is a good Frankenstein movie, though not above Whale's 31 and 35 ones or Fisher's movies starring Peter Cushing for Hammer.

^Of course I have seen it a couple of times (is in my collection too). Dafoe's acting is superb, and the story is uttey original. I love how it pays homage to Murnau's masterpiece and Murnau himself.

Battleship Potemkin

THE WIZARD OF OZ!!! 

WE NEED AN OZ EMOTICON!!

I voted Un Chien Andalou because I love it, but it's a short, not a feature.