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Gangster Films, The: Three Silent Films by Yasujiro Ozu (Walk Cheerfully, That Night's Wife, Dragnet Girl) (1930-1933)- Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
- Criterion collection of three silent crime films made by prolific Japanese director Ozu before his reputation for post–WWII domestic dramas was…
Asphalt (1929)- Dir. Joe May
Feat. Gustav Frohlich, Betty Amann - Bravura melodrama from the German Expressionist era wrangles with the divided loyalites of a love–struck police officer who falls for a sultry…
Blackmail (1929)- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood… - Notable early thriller from Hitch, with Ondra being blackmailed by someone who knows she accidentally killed a rapist. Features good London…
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
- Dir. G.W. Pabst
Feat. Louise Brooks - Exceptional follow–up to the eye–opening PANDORA’S BOX, with Louise Brooks again provoking disorder with her unrestrained vitality and…
Eternal Love (1929)- Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Feat. John Barrymore, Camilla Horn - Made during the last days of the silent era, the legendary Ernst Lubitsch directs John Barrymore and Camilla Horn as two lovers living in the Swiss…
Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
- Dir. Dziga Vertov
- Breath–taking moving snapshot of life in Leninist Moscow uses dissolves, split screen, slo–mo, and freeze frames to dazzlingly illustrate…
New Gentlemen, The (Les Nouveaux Messiers) (1929)- Dir. Jacques Feyder
Feat. Albert Prejean - A satirical French silent film, which uses a number of inventive visual techniques to comic effect. A dancer at the Paris Opera is the mistress of an…
People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag) (1929)- Dir. Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer
- Scripted by a young Billy Wilder, this pivotal silent film harnessed the nascent talents of many other German film–makers that would come to…
Woman in the Moon (Frau im Mond) (1929)- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Willy Fritsch, Fritz Rasp, Gerda Maurus… - Silent–era sci–fi from director Fritz Lang. Based on the 1928 novel "The Rocket to the Moon" by his collaborator (and wife at the time)…
Alfred Hitchcock Silent Double (The Manxman, The Ring) (1928-1929)- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Two silent films from Hitchcock's early career.
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