Subgenre Sampler
Blood of a Poet (1930)- Dir. Jean Cocteau
Feat. Lee Miller, Pauline Carton - Cocteau's first film is a surrealist gem that sewed the seeds of his style. The Dali/Bunuel influence is clear, but this goes one step further with…
Blue Angel, The (1930)
- Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings - A masterwork of the twenties German grotesquerie, this enjoyed great success and gave an early career boost to Marlene Dietrich.
Earth (Zemlya) (1930)
- Dir. Alexander Dovzhenko
- One of the poetic highpoints of Soviet cinema, this sets its simple tale amid the life of a Ukrainian peasant village undergoing modernization after…
Films of Jean Vigo, The (À propos de Nice; Taris, roi de l'eau; Zero De Conduite, L' Atlante) (1930-1933)- Dir. Jean Vigo
Feat. Jean Daste - Three early, formative short works from seminal French filmmaker Jean Vigo. A PROPOS DE NICE (1930, 21 min): Vigo juxtaposes the affluence and…
Prix de Beaute (1930)- Dir. Augusto Genina
Feat. Louise Brooks, Georges Charlia, Augusto Bandini - Louise Brooks is vivacious beyond compare in her first sound film, a jazz–age classic about a young office worker who enters a beauty…
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…
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)…
L'Argent (Money) (1928)- Dir. Marcel L'Herbier
Feat. Pierre Alcover, Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel… - Classic of the late silent era from French filmmaker, writer and film theorist Marcel L'Herbier, based on the book of the same name by Émile…
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