1927 poll

[oscarwerner]

Not many, but really legendary movies.
My final list:
1.Metropolis (Fritz Lang)  -My top hit
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Other films:
2.Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau)
3.The Unknown (Tod Browning)
4.October (S. M. Eisenstein)
5.The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland)
6.The Kid Brother (Ted Wilde)
7.The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (Alfred Hitchcock)
8.Wings (William A. Wellman)
9.Charleston Parade (Jean Renoir)
10.Napoleon (Abel Gance)

[pabs]

1. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Murnau)

The Love of Jeanne Ney (Pabst)

[rischka]

i placed jeanne ney in the place. it was a blast!

[MrCarmady]

What's the password to the Resources?

[rischka]

TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD - gotta agree w Lencho - its not the best Eisenstein I've seen. All those monumental statues just made me think of the scarlet empress

[Roscoe]

has anyone seen the l'herbier from this year? melodrama in french fishing village sounds great...

Is that L'HOMME DU LARGE? They ran it in San Francisco last year. Thanks for the reminder. It was really something. The most inventive use of intertitles I've ever seen, which might account for why it isn't better known in English-speaking countries, it would be difficult to rejigger all of them for different languages.

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TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD - gotta agree w Lencho - its not the best Eisenstein I've seen.

More like Ten Days That Gently Nudged the World So It'd Roll Over and Stop Snoring amirite?

[greennui]

has anyone seen the l'herbier from this year? melodrama in french fishing village sounds great...

Is that L'HOMME DU LARGE? They ran it in San Francisco last year. Thanks for the reminder. It was really something. The most inventive use of intertitles I've ever seen, which might account for why it isn't better known in English-speaking countries, it would be difficult to rejigger all of them for different languages.

That one's from 1920. The 1927 one is Little Devil May Care, which used to be 1928 on imdb but has been changed to 1927 now. I just updated the letterboxd page so it says 1927 as well.

I thought I had run out of avant garde films to watch for this year so I'm glad this one popped up.

[Roscoe]

DOH! I thought i saw 1927 next to the title -- c'est la vie.

[rischka]

dwan's east side, west side -- kinda cliched storyline but loads of fun in 20s nyc

https://twitter.com/rbgscfz/status/1258 ... 55585?s=20

enjoyed this travelling shot among other things

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Sailors, Beware! (Laurel & Hardy) --- Features both a maybe reference to the Odessa Steps sequence and a man with dwarfism who wears baby clothes to help his wife's career as an international crook whose specialty is robbing steamship passengers. Recommended.

[Holymanm]

The movie is recommended, or doing that is recommended...?

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

The movie is recommended, or doing that is recommended...?

Both.

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Hula (Victor Fleming, Paramount) - A Clara Bow vehicle that's basically the Jean Harlow vehicle Red Dust, only as a jaunty hour-long silent. I enjoyed this more than I expected. Recommended for those looking for something that feels pre-Code.

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

A Kiss from Mary Pickford (Sergei Komarov, Mezhrabpom-Rus) - Satire of Soviet moviegoers crushing on Hollywood stars, especially Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. Frothy fun at the intersection of Soviet cinema and Hollywood cinema. Recommended for folks doing '27 viewing.

[MrCarmady]

Some worth-seeing recommendations for now, for those making watchlists:

- The Girl with the Hat Box (Boris Barnet)

Possible Watchlist:
The Girl with the Hat Box (Barnet)

If anyone else wants to see this one, my local cinema in London is live-streaming it on Tuesday:
https://www.sandsfilms.co.uk/cinema-clu ... 8015fcd722

[Lencho of the Apes]

Cafe Elektrik {/b} - Gustav Ucicky, Austria

I'm surprised not to see more SCFZ love for Miss Dietrich.

[Lencho of the Apes]

"Hey, EV-e-lyn!"

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With Sitting Bull At The Spirit Lake Massacre - Robert N Bradbury, USA is a big heap of grossness and wrongity... to the point where its wrongness might be instructive.

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

"Hey, EV-e-lyn!"
Robert N Bradbury, USA is a big heap of grossness and wrongity... to the point where its wrongness might be instructive.

Lol - okay, I got to see this. For my sins, I can't say No to watching an instructively icky western.

[Angel]

Running Wild

7th Heaven
Baby ryazanskie (Women of Ryazan)
Barbed Wire
Captain Salvation
Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness
Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney (The Love of Jeanne Ney)
Dirnentragödie (Tragedy of the Street)
El negro que tenía el alma blanca (The Black Man with a White Soul)
Hindle Wakes
It
Man, Woman and Sin
My Best Girl
Napoléon
Paid to Love
Stark Love
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
The Unknown
Tretya meshchanskaya (Bed and Sofa)

Deliberately excluded (IMDb/TSPDT/S&S top 100)
Metropolis
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

To see before the deadline
After Midnight
Am Rande der Welt
Chicago
El conde de Maravillas

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Orchids and Ermine - A charming Colleen Moore vehicle that I owe to arkheia's recommendation and review. (Incidentally, I hope arkheia's doing well - they haven't been active here or on Letterboxd in a couple months and I always appreciate their recommendations)

[Lencho of the Apes]

Two Arabian Knights -- Most laddish thing I've seen for the year -- Milestone does Hawks-buddy-comedy as well as Hawks did at this point. Names in the credits include Howard Hughes and W Cameron Menzies. lus it lays like the veriest prototype for the Hoe/Crosby Road movies. I'll finish watching it tomorrow, hopefully doesn't go overboard with the orientalisms in the back half.

Uncle Tom's Cabin "Yikes" is too weak and "fuck me" is too strong, but this is going to be a hard one to get through; they rewrote the material to correspond to the Daughters OT Confederacy whitewashed historical revision, the "about states rights, not slavery" canard. Production values are top tier, and thankfully there's no blackface, but still...

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[ofrene]

can't choose #1 so gonna less voted till now

Women of Ryasan

7th Heaven
Metropolis
Napoleon
October
Sunrise
The Girl with the Hat Box
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
Underworld

[rischka]

i'll choose

TWO DAYS

the unknown
chicago
the lodger
the love of jeanne ney
underworld
l'invitation au voyage
la glace a trois faces
the cat and the canary
bed & sofa
the girl w/the hat box
hindle wakes
munchen-berlin wanderung
en rade
berlin symphony of a great city
six et demi onze
the student prince in old heidelberg
seventh heaven
chang: a drama of the wilderness
napoleon

two days was my biggest surprise. i'd never heard of it or it's director. ripped my heart out.


a puppy gets killed in one of the first scenes, a kid gets killed in one of the last -- fair warning i think

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Hindle Wakes
The Unknown
Bed and Sofa
The Girl with the Hat Box
Seventh Heaven
L'invitation au voyage
Romeeow
Long Pants
The Love of Jeanne Ney
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
The Beloved Rogue
The Kid Brother
Sunrise
Chicago
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
It
Koko Back Tracks
The Gaucho
The King of Kings
How to Use the Telephone


I guess this will be my final list since I've already got a couple other movies queued up to watch that aren't from the year.

a puppy gets killed in one of the first scenes, a kid gets killed in one of the last -- fair warning i think

Too bad I won't get a chance to watch that one since it sounds like a real knee slapper. I could use a good cheer-me-up right now.

[rischka]

it's also quite funny and even topical!!

the elderly caretaker of an estate left behind during the russian revolution tries to defend his master's property against a band of bolsheviks, including his own son!!

i watched with modern score and liked it so much i'll watch it again today with trad score i know there's only one day left but i could upload it. karl would've informed us much earlier

[rischka]

ok srsly people if you wanna see it i've placed it in the place! interchangeable music scores and it's only one hour long but a lot can happen in two days!! you'll be amazed!!!

Two Days 1927 ‘Два дня’ Directed by Grigori Stobovoi. coincidentally i believe you have TWO DAYS til this poll ends

[greennui]

Not gonna watch the Dulac, Madame Beudet?

[rischka]

yes i will it's on youtube -- forgot, thx

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FWIW, L'invitation au voyage is the Dulac from '27, not Madame Beudet.