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Subgenre Sampler
Show People (1928)
- Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Marion Davies, William Haines, Dell Henderson… - A satire of Hollywood life in the last of the silent years, this rom–com from director King Vidor (THE FOUNTAINHEAD) has Marion Davies playing…
Spies (Spione) (1928)- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Willy Fritsch - Post WWI Europe provides a volatile backdrop for this silent spy–saga, whose brilliant visual flourishes and 'house–of–mirrors'…
Steamboat Bill Jr (1928)
- Dir. Charles Riesner
Feat. Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence, Tom McGuire - One of Buster Keaton's best films begins as sly farce, with his wimpish city–slicker meekly tussling with a thuggish steamboat–captain…
Storm Over Asia (Potomok Chingis-Khana) (1928)- Dir. Vsevolod Pudovkin
- An epic of silent Russian cinema to rival Eisenstein, this is set around a young Mongol fur–trapper who is swindled by traders and develops a…
Street Angel (1928)- Dir. Frank Borzage
Feat. Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell - Janet Gaynor radiates as a streetwalker whose love for an Italian painter is jeopardized by her past brushes with the law. As with 7th HEAVEN, dir.…
Un Chien Andalou (1928)- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Salvador Dali - Bunuel and Salvador Dali collaborated for this sensational short film that blew the lid off convention in a way history could never repeat. A…
7th Heaven (Seventh Heaven) (1927)- Dir. Frank Borzage
Feat. Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell - Eternal lovers Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell endure spiritual turmoil and the ravages of war in this beautiful silent era classic, remarkable for…
Cat and the Canary, The (1927)- Dir. Paul Leni
Feat. Laura La Plante, Tully Marshall - Seminal haunted house flick centres around the gathering of greedy contestants to the will of a rich relative. Imaginative thrills are executed with…
College (1927)- Dir. James W. Horne
Feat. Buster Keaton - Buster Keaton goes to college where he tries to win the girl of his dreams by proving himself in the sports arena. An ideal set up for 'Stoneface' to…
End of St. Petersburg, The (1927)- Dir. Vsevolod Pudovkin
Feat. Vera Baranovskaya, Aleksandr Chistyakov - The tensions that exploded with the 'October Revolution' in Russia, 1917 are schematised here using understated characterisations (of workers and…
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