1925 Poll 2.0

[sally]

les misérables - henri fescourt

this was gorgeous but it's 6 hours of misery, no idea why middle-class people keep remaking this

[Lencho of the Apes]

I'm disappointed that I didn't get any Jaque Catelain performances this year, I was looking forward to that...

Smouldering Fires - Clarence Brown

I can't think of any other movies in the "lady executive but ohmygodsdhedonothaveaMAN" as early as this one. It goes to unexpected places, and that's good. (Not sure about that final twist...) And its Clarence Brown, so everybody forgets halfway through about any professional responsibilities they might have, and it turns into, um, Flesh And The Country Club.

[Zynab]

I'm disappointed that I didn't get any Jaque Catelain performances this year, I was looking forward to that...

Smouldering Fires - Clarence Brown

I can't think of any other movies in the "lady executive but ohmygodsdhedonothaveaMAN" as early as this one. It goes to unexpected places, and that's good. (Not sure about that final twist...) And its Clarence Brown, so everybody forgets halfway through about any professional responsibilities they might have, and it turns into, um, Flesh And The Country Club.

Omg I LOVE Smouldering Fires. I saw it at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival a few years back. Such a good experience. Very true re: Clarence Brown but I love a good melodramatic dinner party so was more than satisfied with the film's ending. Thanks for reminding me to vote for this one.

[Lencho of the Apes]

LOVE

Not surprised; there's an Italianate fervor to Laura LaPlante's performance that's pretty grabby. And her eyebrows...

[ofrene]

Lady Windermere’s Fan
Master of the House
Strike
The Big Parade

Battleship Potemkin
Faces of Children
Seven Chances
Tartuffe

Paris qui dort
The Gold Rush
The Marry Widow
The Salvation Hunters

[niminy-piminy]

Felix All Puzzled (Otto Messmer) imdb 1925

1925 crossword...

FOUND CHIEFLY IN RUSSIA ???
(a seven-letter word ???)
↓↓↓

Spoiler!

TROUBLE !!!

https://youtu.be/gDFdBs1LMag

[wba]

Seen a measly 20 films from this year.

Anyways, I loved these 6:


two tiers

The Phantom of the Opera (Rupert Julian, USA)
The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin, USA)
The Lost World (Harry O. Hoyt, USA)

La fille de l'eau "Whirlpool of Fate" (Jean Renoir, France)
Cobra (Joseph Henabery, USA)
The Pleasure Garden (Alfred Hitchcock, UK/Germany)

[wba]

pohjalaisia - jalmari lahdensuo

one of those scandi-rural silents, and it almost works... the scenery is gorgeous and is filmed to comment on the action (best use of swinging well-bucket), the plot hints at an interesting examination of even good-hearted conflicting inflexible attitudes, and best of all the hero dies at the end...but the examination doesn't really go that far, the interior scenes you can almost see the bit where the audience sat before the stage, and the hero is the worst actor ever, i think it's the finnish response to maciste-frenzy, too much a broad-shouldered carrot-man who favours his chest over his face for acting...

anyway streaming here with eng subs: https://elonet.finna.fi/Record/kavi.elo ... uva_117362

I enjoyed it, but I thought this was one of the weakest Finnish silents I watched last year.

[niminy-piminy]

https://kinometer.com/?list=502

The Bear's Wedding (Konstantin Eggert, Vladimir Gardin, 1925, 68m)
The Cocaine Rush (Carl Alstrup, 1925, 18m)
Chess Fever (Vsevolod Pudovkin, Nikolai Shpikovsky, 1925, 28m)
Sunshine Valley (Emanuel Gregers, 1925, 54m)
Mists of the Past (A.W. Sandberg, 1925, 107m)
Sing and Don't Cry, Heart (Juan Pérez Berrocal, 1925, 50m)
The Case of the Murder of Tariel Mklavadze (Ivane Perestiani, 1925, 70m)

The Mystic (Tod Browning, 1925, 70m)
Lantern (Karel Lamač, 1925, 55m)
Games of Reflections and Speed (Henri Chomette, 1925, 8m)
Iceland in Moving Pictures (Loftur Guðmundsson, 1925, 84m)
The University (Leeds) (Unknown, 1925, 23m)
Tale of Crab Temple (Tomu Uchida, Hakusan Kimura, Hidehiko Okuda, 1925, 11m)
Opus IV (Walter Ruttmann, 1925, 4m)

[Zynab]

Battleship Potemkin
The Bear’s Wedding
Feu Mathias Pascal
Stella Dallas
Varieté

Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Herr Tartüff
Les visages des enfants
The Merry Widow
The Road to Yesterday

Cobra
Le double amour
The Red Kimona
Smouldering Fires
Zur Chronik von Grieshuus

A Woman of the World
Kokain-rusen (would rank higher because I truly loved it, but it’s a fragment)
The Lost World
The Plastic Age
The Unholy Three

I wasn’t able to cram in as many watches as I wanted so this list mostly relies on what I’ve seen and liked in the past Still had a lot of fun and glad I logged back in in time to see the poll and vote.

[sally]

pohjalaisia - jalmari lahdensuo

one of those scandi-rural silents, and it almost works... the scenery is gorgeous and is filmed to comment on the action (best use of swinging well-bucket), the plot hints at an interesting examination of even good-hearted conflicting inflexible attitudes, and best of all the hero dies at the end...but the examination doesn't really go that far, the interior scenes you can almost see the bit where the audience sat before the stage, and the hero is the worst actor ever, i think it's the finnish response to maciste-frenzy, too much a broad-shouldered carrot-man who favours his chest over his face for acting...

anyway streaming here with eng subs: https://elonet.finna.fi/Record/kavi.elo ... uva_117362

I enjoyed it, but I thought this was one of the weakest Finnish silents I watched last year.

yep, the finns had much stronger films around but at least you can see stuff when you stream it (compared to some of the other non-finnish pixellated horrors i tried and stopped watching for this poll)

[sally]

final ballot:

the bear's wedding - konstantin eggert, vladimir gardin
the stationmaster - yuri zhelyabuzhsky, ivan moskvin
namus - amo bek-nazaryan
the case of the murder of tariel mklavadze - ivane perestiani
lady windermere's fan - ernst lubitsch
sunshine valley - emanuel gregers
the adventures of robert macaire - jean epstein
le double amour - jean epstein
the vocation of andré carel - jean choux
the salvation hunters - josef von sternberg
the pleasure garden - alfred hitchcock
her sister from paris - sidney franklin
the tower of silence - johannes guter
faces of children - jacques feyder
dick turpin - john g. blystone
tartuffe - f w murnau
chess fever - vsevolod pudovkin, mykola shpykovskyi
the chronicles of the gray house - arthur von gerlach
feu mathias pascal - marcel l’herbier
seven chances - buster keaton

[sally]

I wasn’t able to cram in as many watches as I wanted so this list mostly relies on what I’ve seen and liked in the past Still had a lot of fun and glad I logged back in in time to see the poll and vote.

next poll is 1947! i'm sure you can dig up some wonders for that!

[Lencho of the Apes]

OK, I'm done. I regret sleeping on Paris Qui Dort, but it can't be helped.

The Big Parade
The Merry Widow
The Salvation Hunters
Strike!
Variety

Battleship Potemkin
Orochi
The Freshman
Seven Chances
Visages D'Enfants - Feyder

Le Diable Dans Le Ville - Dulac
Go West
The Gold Rush
Maciste In Hell
The Red Kimona

Dream Picture
Goose Woman - Clarence Brown
The Joyless Street
The Lost World
The Mystic

Since it never came up in the normal course of things, I'm going to post this little item of obvious SCFZ-appeal. '24 on youtube, '25 on imdb.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3E0INvKAwQ&t=41s