The Cabinet of Dr Shhh! (silent movies thread)

[niminy-piminy]

THE RACER (Lau Lauritzen Sr., 1920)
→ https://www.stumfilm.dk/en/stumfilm/str ... ddeloberen


THE ROAST HARE (Lau Lauritzen Sr., 1921)
→ https://www.stumfilm.dk/en/stumfilm/str ... harestegen

[sally]

ha!

[sally]

tyrol in arms - carl froelich (1914)

streaming here: https://www.filmportal.de/video/tirol-in-waffen

today learning that there's gonna be a ridley scott version, i was inspired to watch this early napoleon-adjacent film from froelich (tho obvs considering the time it was made it was merely using the old history as a crutch for current affairs) and it's really good (although i suspect any snowy mountain thing will appeal, and the white crosses of the military uniforms look amazing in black and white)







torrents of emotion again


lines of wellington vibe




yay, here he is!


and great cut directly to next scene, contrasting napoleon's opulence with the sparse cell, and the halo/doorway of light around the martyr


and i just looooooooove tolling bells in silent movies

[sally]

in addition, was strongly reminded whilst watching the above film, of one i watched for the 83 poll - francis lee's ch'an
streaming: https://lightcone.org/en/film-10343-ch-an

[rischka]

that's gorgeous, i'll watch it next

i watched last of the mohicans - tourneur version. this was quite good and i had to look up the story since it was very different than the mann version



the tentative romance of these two seemed pretty bold for 1920 (it's not in the book afaik) and the siege was downright scary

according to wikipedia the actors later married. gotta wonder if she made him wear the native costume at home ...

[sally]

oh i wanna see that...

but inspired by the greenaway sea short of 1983, i watched

O NAUFRÁGIO DO 'VERONESE' - 1913
http://www.cinemateca.pt/Cinemateca-Dig ... type=Video

rescue of a shipwreck 1913-style - the men keep their bowler hats on, intrusive paparazzi, one random woman, and some guy on the right there having a crisis

[greennui]

2nd part is neat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4VJsPszw94

[greennui]

https://vimeo.com/88637052

[sally]

thanks greennui ♥

[sally]

live your life smiling - pauline brunius (1921)

https://www.filmarkivet.se/movies/lev-livet-leende/

this is one of the greatest silent comedies directed by a woman that i've seen....♥♥♥....full of subtle, sophisticated details...

(as per rappaport, inversion of the vanity table)












then as already alluded to by jiri, there is this, which is inexplicable




it's such a shame that she didn't direct more films (husband john w did of course, and they're nice too)....only fragments survive of the series of winner family films she did, as per below, in tribute to time team, with pops rocking a danny-from-withnail & i look...a stone-age hallucination:

herr vinners stenåldersdröm (1924)

[sally]

my 8000th film on letterboxd is something i've been saving....

casanova - alexandre volkoff (1927)

ivan, ivan, ivan.....

[niminy-piminy]

[sally]

IT'S HIM, HE'S COMING!! (i'm excited too, clara!)


i looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove* danish silents!!!!!!

*if they star valdemar psilander & clara pontoppidan


the man without a future - holger-madsen (1916)
streaming: https://www.stumfilm.dk/en/stumfilm/str ... en-fremtid

such energy, love seeing them in films together....and whilst psilander is a sex god, this particular film is clara's....i love her...

even got some 60's new wave kitten thing going:


those two can even make holger-madsen enjoyable...and maybe i am beginning to see beyond his penchant for masochistic purity (happily none of that here, even if no actual filth) into something of his style, recognised this:


that popped up into his trip to mars a couple of years later:



but this one is MUCH livelier












think way of a (danish) gaucho...the barn dance with horses was insane




i've suspected this before, but i swear the entire film crew keep on trying to make each other laugh...


and valdemar clearly enjoying playing the rough guy...here is some eternal statement of something


her expression is priceless, are you really gonna eat like a pig?


oh i see yes, yes you are



so the women retreat to their cute dogs in the vain hope of repressing their undying lust



but ultimately, what makes this and all their other films so hot, are the locked gazes. i've never seen any other on-screen couple look so long, often and lustily into each others eyes. SWOON


drowning in 'pearls'

[sally]

great expectations - a w sandberg (1922)

streaming: https://www.stumfilm.dk/en/stumfilm/str ... ventninger

i see that the bbc just remade this again so took the opportunity to watch a proper version - this is gorgeously made (i'm guessing much prettier than contemporary tv cinematography) and very respectfully dickensy, which is largely the problem. it's episodic, so i've no idea if this adaptation makes sense without knowing the story since there were large chunks of plot necessarily missing. but the main problem is that dickens is utterly sexless (however much the bbc might try and convince otherwise) and pip is an unbearable, pathetic, egotistical, thoughtless idiot who spends the entire movie vacillating between gormless, sad, scared or anguished. i absolutely did not give a shit about a happy ending when i read the book and i didn't here. miss havisham's death was pretty cool tho.























and there was a very danish *waves at dreyer* touch.....

[rischka]

aww that looks gorgeous i might have to watch bbc is trying to make dickens sexy???

i thought jane austen had that covered. and forster and hardy and d.h. lawrence lol

[nrh]

it is the peaky blinders guy, and as unbearable as you would expect. what kind of idiot casts matt berry in a great expectations adaptation and doesn't cast him as magwich?

there are very few great dickens adaptations. i do really like the 1987 christine edzard little dorrit, should watch her other movies some day...

[rischka]

Pip is a miserable character

[sally]

dickens was huge in 20's denmark - sandberg also did little dorrit, and his david copperfield even stars the same child actor that plays pip above...

not sure i have the stomach for those yet, but am now daydreaming how nice a sandberg jane eyre or something would be...


and i'm not sure matt berry should be anywhere near any dickens at the minute...he's turned into something of a 'national treasure' which is a problem for him and a shame for us...

[sally]

not sure if this should go here or in pure filth, but nice that someone took the trouble to colour the background of the flying cocks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXWRod_ ... u&index=83

[sally]

i think this is the most gorgeous, romantic vitagraph short i've seen, everything i want in a movie in 10 mins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbD9gS_gYuI

[sally]

this is also fairly captivating - 1905 is starting to see little glimmers of social-realist dramas amongst the comedies, trick films, moralising and actualités, and despite some sneering letterboxd reviews, i love this...the sets are elaborate, the camera is doing a 360 pseudo-pan, the many actors are fantastically choreographed, the real inserted footage makes this more complex to me, and french mining films just get better and better from here...perret, jasset, capellani....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W2heVxbgso

[sally]

rosen - viggo larsen (1907)
streaming: https://www.stumfilm.dk/en/stumfilm/str ... film/rosen

ok, so the distinctive danish sophistication was already apparent in 1907, plus this is pretty


the way the lover is enmeshed in the murky desires of nature whilst she's trapped in the prison bars of civil obligations


hemmed in by idiots




rescuing the rose of love! ♥

[greennui]

The Railway Owner (Eugenio Perego, 1919) - Typical Italian diva film viewing really, no idea what's going on just admiring the star.

[sally]

oh greennui ♥♥♥ that looks gorgeous

[greennui]

The Ingmar Heritance (Gustaf Molander, 1925) - Soft 1925 poll start. Don't have much to say about it except that I was surprised to see Conrad Veidt pop up in it.

[sally]

i would watch some silents but the play button on stumfilm seems to have disappeared

can anyone else watch any film or is it just me? https://www.stumfilm.dk/en/stumfilm

[greennui]

Doesn't work for me either

[sally]

it's working again thank god!

anyway whilst i was waiting i discovered this ASTONISHING 3 hour georgian epic (HD quality with english intertitles) just sat around quietly on youtube, amazing. am only half an hour in so far and will make a proper post later (LOVE the scene where a girl sees her beloved get knocked off his horse by a creep in some manly games, so she grabs a horse, dashes after the creep and proceeds to thrash him repeatedly with a small stick) but i just need to make a testament to the handsomeness of georgian men....this guy is insanely hot

[sally]

additional meat post







that's a might fine 'rifle' you have there

[sally]

ok, the proper post

uprising in guria - aleqsandre tsutsunava (1928)

soviet propaganda and antisemitic stereotypes aside, this is as gorgeous as you'd expect for georgian silent cinema....despite the 3 hour run-length the mass onscreen movements of peasants uprising all about the place didn't get too tedious, and by the end i was even so involved i was genuinely manipulated by the propaganda and truly enraged



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzodJYNOafA