1924 Poll 2.0

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Choose your favourite films from 1924 (according to IMDB).

Each person can vote for up to 20 films. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number.

Twenty-film ballots can be formatted as follows:
- Five tiers of four films each, 4/4/4/4/4; scored 5-4-3-2-1 pts/film/tier
- Four tiers of five films each, 5/5/5/5; scored 4.5-3.5-2.5-1.5 pts/film/tier
- Two tiers of ten films each, 10/10; scored 4-2 pts/film/tier
- No tiers, unranked; scored 3 pts/film
- A 20-film three-tier ballot is not possible

A tiered ballot can include less than 20 films, but in that case the total number of films must still be able to be factored by the number of tiers, so:
- A five tier ballot can include only 20, 15, 10, or 5 films
- A four tier ballot can include only 20, 16, 12, 8, or 4 films
- A three tier ballot (scored 5-3-1) can include only 18, 15, 12, 9, 6, or 3 films
- A two tier ballot can include only 20, 18, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, or 2 films
- Ballots that are 19, 17, 13, 11, 7 or 1 films must be no tiers

Users are urged to post their provisional lists as soon as possible, so that others can use them for recommendations. You may revise your lists at any point prior to the deadline.

Deadline for 1924 ballots will be Thursday, February 29th (happy leap year!) at roughly midnight EST.

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Happy 100th anniversary viewing!!

[sally]

Happy 100th anniversary viewing!!

♥♥♥♥♥♥

i will actually be watching some but it's such a great year (as were all the 20s, and earlier)


the lion of the moguls - jean epstein
kean - alexandre volkoff
the marriage circle - ernst lubitsch
he who gets slapped - victor sjöström
the flood - louis delluc
miracle of the wolves - raymond bernard
the gallery of monsters - jaque catelain
the swallow and the titmouse - andré antoine
la belle nivernaise - jean epstein
sylvester - lupu pick
the hands of orlac - robert wiene
greed - erich von stroheim
her night of romance - sidney franklin
the passionate adventure - graham cutts
the cigarette girl of mosselprom - yuri zhelyabuzhsky
white paradise - karel lamač
the signal tower - clarence brown
the saga of gosta berling - mauritz stiller
wild oranges - king vidor
the iron horse - john ford

[greennui]

The Swallow and the Titmouse 1924 ‘L'Hirondelle et la Mésange’ Directed by André Antoine
New Year’s Eve 1924 ‘Sylvester’ Directed by Lupu Pick
The Saga of Gosta Berling 1924 ‘Gösta Berlings saga’ Directed by Mauritz Stiller
Il passato che torna 1924
The Iron Horse 1924 Directed by John Ford
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried 1924 Directed by Fritz Lang
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild’s Revenge 1924 ‘Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache’ Directed by Fritz Lang
Arboga-bilder 1924 Directed by Sven Hult
Opus III 1924 Directed by Walter Ruttmann
Diagonal Symphony 1924 ‘Symphonie diagonale’ Directed by Viking Eggeling
Entr’acte 1924 Directed by René Clair
Cloud Phenomena of Maloja
The Olympic Games as They Were Practiced in Ancient Greece 1924 Directed by Jean de Rovera
L’Inhumaine 1924 Directed by Marcel L’Herbier
Michael 1924 Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
The Flood 1924 ‘L'inondation’ Directed by Louis Delluc
Heart of an Actress 1924 ‘Âme d'artiste’ Directed by Germaine Dulac
La Belle Nivernaise 1924 Directed by Jean Epstein
Ballet Mécanique 1924 Directed by Dudley Murphy, Fernand Léger

[greennui]

The 20's year with the least amount of watches for me

[cinesmith]

Letterboxd notes that there were 1,181 released that year. I've seen 4 that I'm aware of. I don't have ANY year that hits double digits until 28'

[flip]

one of the least-viewed years for me, but a lot of what i've seen is amazing, so i'm sure i'll think 1924 a very strong year once i've seen more:

Sherlock Jr (Buster Keaton)
Entr'acte (Rene Clair)
Au Secours! (Abel Gance)

The Last Laugh (FW Murnau)
The Fugitive Futurist (Gaston Quiribet)
Ballet Mecanique (Fernand Leger)

The Navigator (Buster Keaton/Donald Crisp)
The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (Lev Kuleshov)
The First 100 Years (F Richard Jones/Harry Sweet)

Greed (Erich von Stroheim)
The Hands of Orlac (Robert Wiene)
Opus III (Walter Ruttmann)

[wba]

Seen almost nothing!

These were pretty great:

The Thief of Bagdad (Walsh)
The Iron Horse (Ford)
The Hands of Orlac (Wiene)
The Family Secret (Seiter)
Gefahren der Großstadt-Straße (Attenberger)
Kino-Pravda No. 18 (Vertov)
Greed (Stroheim)

[karl]

Here's what I've got for now:

He Who Gets Slapped
Greed
The Marriage Circle
Gosta Berling's Saga
Sherlock, Jr.
The Last Man/Laugh
Gallery of Monsters
Iceland Fishermen (de Baroncelli)
The Navigator
Au Secours!
Don Quixote (Lauritzen)
Isn't Life Wonderful?

[Lencho of the Apes]

Something like this, for now:

Entr'acte
Greed
The Last Laugh
Sherlock Jr

La Galerie Des Monstres
L'Inhumaine
Nibelungen 1
Nibelungen 2

Helen Of Troy - Noa
The Iron Horse
The Swallow and The Titmouse
The Thief Of Bagdad

Conductor 1492 - Frank Griffin
He Who Gets Slapped
A Trip To Mars - Dave Fleischer

[sally]

Don Quixote (Lauritzen)

is 26 on imdb

but omg when did that baroncelli become available? yes yes yes yes exciting

[rischka]

the last laugh
lion of the mogols
entr'acte
he who gets slapped
the navigator
hands of orlac
aelita queen of mars
gallery of monsters
the iron horse
the swallow and the tit mouse
the sea hawk
die nibelungen
sherlock jr
thief of baghdad
the marriage circle

to watch: gosta berling, miracle of the wolves, la belle nivernaise, three women, the iceland fishermen ...

[ofrene]

is there any english subtitle of this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=257FGV6uD8A

[rischka]

i've put them in the share folder

[rischka]

[ofrene]

Thanks!!

[sally]

pierrot, pierrette - louis feuillade

effectively feuillade's last film this is a bittersweet, explicit handover to the next more corporate, more bourgeois, filmmaking generation....it's gentle but there are barbs, humour and poetry in some of the framing, and it's the self-referential turning into a crime movie at the end that redeems the characters from poverty and allows them a future...goodbye to a master! (sob)

[Lencho of the Apes]

pierrot, pierrette - louis feuillade

Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy! So glad you found that!

[sally]

pierrot, pierrette - louis feuillade

Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy! So glad you found that!

do you need it lencho? it's been here forever:
https://archive.org/details/silent-pierrot-pierrette

there are subs as well: https://we.tl/t-PseHqp8xSC

[Lencho of the Apes]

Found it already, thanks. The subs'll be helpful, though.

[greennui]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9_UBGfs7tg

Il passato che torna fragment at 12:15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4FiTEFltJc&t

Cat at 1:07
https://www.filmarkivet.se/movies/arboga-bilder/

[rischka]

cigarette girl of mosselprom is delightful and stars future director yuliya solntseva. she is adorable and also appears in aelita queen of mars this year.

both are on youtube in decent quality w/nice piano scores. if i had to choose one it's cigarette girl even if aelita's outfits are better

[cinesmith]

WOW. This was spectacular.

[sally]

WOW. This was spectacular.

yes. yes it is!

[Curtis, baby]

seen 13

He Who Gets Slapped
Sherlock Jr

The Hands of Orlac
The Last Laugh

Epic of Everest
The Navigator

Dangerous Paths
Changing Husbands

Three Women
Aelita: Queen of Mars

[sally]

watched a couple of films, both pretty bad

vedi napoli e poi muori - eugenio perego

this is sugary emigration trauma wish fulfilment, and leda gys is too pickford (US colonialism of film industry, ironically) when she should be magnani....but the neo-realist shots of naples were nice. and it was very cool that the only film decay occurred when the lovers united, they set the screen (even if it was only the screen and not the bored viewer) alight!

watched here: https://www.cinetecamilano.it/film/3160













suursalon häät - konrad tallroth

this was mildly better, only the main actor was all very tom of finland poses and the constant masculine chest-puffing was too ridiculous, i think the only time he wasn't rigidly straight was during the 'knife' fight...

also i feel like i've seen this story in about 10 other finnish movies...

watched here with subs: https://elonet.finna.fi/Record/kavi.elo ... uva_117314

[greennui]

La Voyeuse - No russian porn so I had to settle for French. Feels weird seeing a good print of early porn. There's a rumour on kg that Jean Renoir was the uncredited director of this, which I chose to believe, some artsy lighting...



Seems like letterboxd won't accept my submission of this.

[St. Gloede]

Only seen a bit over 50 films from 1924, one of my weaker years overall, but with a strong top 4-5:

Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924, Fritz Lang)
The Thief of Bagdad (1924, Raoul Walsh)
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924, Fritz Lang)
L'hirondelle et la mésange / The Swallow and the Titmouse (1920, André Antoine)

Der Letzte Mann / The Last Laugh (1924, F.W. Murnau)
Gösta Berlings saga (1924, Mauritz Stiller)
Kinoglaz / Kino-Eye (1924, Dziga Vertov)
Helena (1924, Manfred Noa)

The Iron Horse (1924, John Ford)
Kean (1924, Alexandre Volkoff)
The Great White Silence (1924, Herbert G. Ponting)
Le miracle des loups / The Miracle of Wolves (1924, Raymond Bernard)

La Galerie des Monstres / Gallery of Monsters (1924, Jaque Catelain)
Sherlock jr. (1924, Buster Keaton)
The Enchanted Cottage (1924, John S. Robertson)
La belle Nivernaise (1924, Jean Epstein)

[wba]

The Great White Silence (1924, Herbert G. Ponting)

THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE is a total masterpiece and would have made my list as well, but it's listed as 1922 on Imdb.

[rischka]

saga of gosta berling was more exciting than i imagined. still took two days to watch