100 Silent Films (BFI Screen Guide)
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"100 Silent Films provides an authoritative and accessible history of silent cinema through one hundred of its most interesting and significant films. As Bryony Dixon contends, silent cinema is not a genre; it is the first 35 years of film history, a complex negotiation between art and commerce and a union of creativity and technology. At its most grand – on the big screen with a full orchestral accompaniment – it is magnificent, permitting a depth of emotional engagement rarely found in other fields of cinema. Silent film was hugely popular in its day, and its success enabled the development of large-scale film production in the United States and Europe. It was the start of our fascination with the moving image as a disseminator of information and as mass entertainment with its consequent celebrity culture."
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Häxan
1922, in 17 top lists Check -
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Regen
1929 — a.k.a. Rain, in 7 top lists Check -
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Panorama du grand Canal pris d'un bateau
1896, in 1 top list Check -
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Nanook of the North
1922, in 17 top lists Check -
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Manhatta
1921, in 5 top lists Check -
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Chelovek s kino-apparatom
1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 top lists Check -
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Kino-pravda no. 21 - Leninskaia Kino-pravda....
1925, in 1 top list Check -
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The Great White Silence
1922, in 3 top lists Check -
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Drifters
1929, in 2 top lists Check -
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Douro, Faina Fluvial
1931 — a.k.a. Labor on the Douro River, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Birth of a Flower
1910, in 1 top list Check -
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Berlin - Die Sinfonie der Großstadt
1927 — a.k.a. Berlin: Symphony of Metropolis, in 12 top lists Check -
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The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands
1927, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Battle of the Somme
1916 — a.k.a. Kitchener's Great Army in the Battle of the Somme, in 4 top lists Check
Last updated on Jan 2, 2012; source