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Subgenre Sampler
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…
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…
Sunrise (1927)
- Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Bodil Rosing - The first American outing from the master of German Expressionism turned out to be perhaps his best film of all. He instils an electric charge on a…
Garbo Silents Collection, The (Flesh and the Devil, The Temptress, The Mysterious Lady) (1926-1928)- Dir. Clarence Brown, Fred Niblo
Feat. Greta Garbo, John Gilbert - Three MGM classics that well represent the great Greta Garbo as the ultimate silent movie icon: Flesh and the Devil (1927, 112m.) A gorgeous high…
Gribiche (Mother of Mine) (1926)- Dir. Jacques Feyder
- A silent French film by Jacques Feyder. A 13–year–old working–class boy lives alone with his mother. While shopping in a Paris…
La Boheme (1926)- Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Lillian Gish, John Gilbert, Renee Adoree… - Silent film adaptation of the 1896 opera by Giacomo Puccini, with Lillian Gish starring alongside John Gilbert as doomed lovers Mimi and Rodolphe, a…
Mother (1926)- Dir. Vsevolod Pudovkin
Feat. Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolai Batalov - In one of the masterpieces of early Russian cinema, a fable of pre–revolutionary worker–resistance and Tsarist oppression is heightened…
Battleship Potemkin (1925)- Dir. Sergei Eisenstein
Feat. Alexander Antonov, Vladimir Blasky, Grigori Alexandrov - This landmark Soviet propaganda film about the 1905 revolution is one of the greatest classics of all time. The smart use of visual metaphor and that…
Last Laugh, The (Letzte Mann, Der) (1925)- Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Emil Jannings - One of the classics of silent German cinema, this puts visual expressionism to use for a penetrating psychological study of a man's systematic…
Late Mathias Pascal, The (Feu Mathias Pascal) (1925)- Dir. Marcel L'Herbier
Feat. Ivan Mosjoukine, Michel Simon - A French silent film, based on the novel by Luigi Pirandello. Russian actor Ivan Mosjoukine stars as Mathias, an assistant librarian from a…
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