Tag: film

• Seven Chances

  

  Buster Keaton, 1925. Keaton is inherent comedy.

  October 18, 2016

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• The Last Laugh

  

  F.W. Murnau, 1924. No intertitles needed! The camera seems to be doing all the work, along with Emil Jannings.

  October 18, 2016

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• Greed

  Erich von Stroheim, 1924. A dark American epic. Not as sophisticated as Foolish Wives, but much grander in scale. Zasu Pitts is effectively grotesque while Gibson Gowland exerts a gravitational force on screen.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  August 21, 2015

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• Sherlock, Jr.

  

  

  

  Buster Keaton, 1924. Film becomes aware of itself. Such a spectacular moment.

  August 16, 2015

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• Strike

  

  

  

  Sergei M. Eisenstein, 1925. This was hard to follow, but the mood – the wild rage of a revolution – is effectively captured. The first Soviet film on my list is not a horror, fantasy, or comedy, but instead a visceral anecdote firmly grounded in reality.

  August 16, 2015

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