Comments on: Top 15 Greatest Silent Films

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:22:35 +0000

Awesome list!, it’s fantastic to see all these great films in here. I took up a course in Early Film History and got to see most of these. Guangzhou Travel Guide

By: peter8172

peter8172 — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 07:01:19 +0000

No.5, “The Battleship Potemkin” is a must all for those who are movie fans. Its powerful, riveting, engrossing and at times shocking to watch. We all know about the “baby carriage” scene as it has been parodied in other movies. But the movie is relatively short (75-80 minutes) and sends a bleak image of the Bolshevik Revolution. Watch out for the “maggot” scene when the sailors aboard are being fed with tainted food and covered with the vile little creatures crawling on their food. There are two versions of this movie. One of course is the original, and then in the forties, the Russian government commission the great 20th century composer Dmitri Shostakovich to provide and compose the background score for the movie. The latter one is the one that I suggest watching.

By: A

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:21:43 +0000

Now there’s a nice list!
Buster Keaton made it twice here!
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari had a very nice plot and Conrad was brilliant in it but to be honest I got bored watching some of the very verylong scenes that could’ve been much shorter.

By: Chas Hutchinson

Chas Hutchinson — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 06:25:21 +0000

Can’t argue with the list ,just about perfect ihave all these great films,only beef Ozu’s” I Was Born But “&D.W. Griffith’s” Broken Blossoms”,should have gone close but what too take out?—– Aussie film Buff.

By: Koudelka

Koudelka — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:09:17 +0000

I miss here the film Extasy (1933) from Gustav Machaty.

By: JWW

JWW — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:49:21 +0000

Great survey of the best silent films, although "Battleship Potemkin" probably really does deserve to be #1. It's one of the four or five most important films of all time.

By: blaaaah

blaaaah — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 18:38:55 +0000

This is about the most boring conventional list I've ever seen. Griffiths is an awful film-maker and his films on here should be replaced by the genuinely revolutionary films of Abel Gance, who is woefully under-appreciated as it is. Gance's Napoleon should definitely take the top spot of any list like this.

By: itsallabout

itsallabout — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:06:24 +0000

Nosferatu is one of the best horror movies ever. The fact that it was made during the silent era just adds to it's creepiness. Just like you said, the shadows and Max Schreck are fantastically terrifying. Seriously, anyone who loves movies (especially scary ones!) should watch it.

By: CharlieMaryDoug

CharlieMaryDoug — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 04:18:31 +0000

A silent movie list without Pandora's Box? Stella Maris? Greed?

Pandora's Box is, quite simply, amazing. Louise Brooks was vibrant, beautiful, and a darned good actress. What happened to her career is a travesty. But this movie is her masterpiece, the film that showed why she was so popular. She continues to delight, even more then half a century later.

Stella Maris is, in my opinion, Mary Pickford's best movie. And that's saying something. Mary made hundreds of films, many considered "classics". Stella Maris, however, should be required viewing for those who think Pickford was only able to play "spunky little girl" parts. In this movie, she plays beautiful, and tragically crippled Stella. It would be a typical Pickford film, except that she also plays the ugly, deformed, and abused servant girl Unity Blake. The ending is all melodrama, but the amazing range of the traditionally "limited" Pickford makes Stella Maris a must on my list of silents.

As for Greed….I believe that has been explained by another poster earlier, so I won't type a whole pargraph repeating them.

Thanks!

By: Art History DVD

Art History DVD — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:21:06 +0000

Charlie Chaplin is the best and tops the list for me