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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The Wind
1928, in 14 top lists Check -
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Way Down East
1920, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Unknown
1927, in 11 top lists Check -
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Underworld
1927, in 9 top lists Check -
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check -
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Menschen am Sonntag
1930 — a.k.a. People on Sunday, in 12 top lists Check -
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Die Büchse der Pandora
1929 — a.k.a. Pandora's Box, in 18 top lists Check -
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The Lure of Crooning Water
1920, in 0 top lists Check -
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It
1927, in 6 top lists Check -
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Hell's Hinges
1916, in 5 top lists Check -
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Gösta Berlings saga
1924 — a.k.a. The Saga of Gösta Berling, in 4 top lists Check -
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Flesh and the Devil
1926, in 9 top lists Check -
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The Birth of a Nation
1915, in 21 top lists Check
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