I've seen stuff like Man Boarding a Train but I think the oldest movie I actually like watching just to watch would be The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari from 1920.
I watched this one with my (young) kids a few months ago and we all really couldn't get enough of it.
Definitely some Buster Keaton shit, those stunts were wild, and the comedic timing was so good. Ever seen that scene where he's on the front of a train?
I mean, it's just after the time people sat on flagpoles for fame and eating lunch on unprotected hanging girders. People were just totally okay with dying whenever
Came here to say that. I've seen older movies but Buster Keaton stuff is genially entertaining.
I'm absolutely in love with the insane shit they would do with trains in the silent film era. There were staged train crashes, and one case where they drove a train onto a burning bridge and collapsed it, plus all of Keaton's stunts.
I got drunk and watched charlie chaplin movies, that was a good time.
I really dug Metropolis when I watched it for a film class years ago, though I couldn't recount much about it now.
I randomly saw Buster Keaton's Seven Chances on TV once while channel surfing and it killed me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjFC9sqi35o
Tight. Check out Caligari if you get the chance, it's a similar style
I saw Caligari once in a film class, but I don't think I enjoyed it as much as Nosferatu or Sunrise. Maybe I should revisit it.
It wasn't made by FW. Murneau where the other two are so maybe you're just a fan of his style? His adaptation of Faust is really good
Well, all three of them are either pure examples of German Expressionism or highly influenced by it, so I saw a connection there.
Caligari is definitely more stylized and somewhat stagelike compared to Murneau's work but the set design is the main draw
Never got around to seeing that but I've heard the blackface is done tastefully.
There's actual Arabs in the movie as well as white people in Arabface. I was thinking today of doing some kind of writeup about how Lawrence of Arabia is actually an anti-white savior movie. It's really a "well-intentioned white people make everything worse" movie. Christopher Caudwell's essay about T.E. Lawrence as the last bourgeois hero in history is also pretty essential.
I enjoyed Sergei Eisenstein's Strike from 1925. It has some very advanced cinematography for it's age.
I think it would have to be between the wizard of oz and North by Northwest, but there's not very many of them.
North by Northwest is neat in that it was made as a parody of the James Bond novels before an actual Bond movie was made.
For me Le Coucher de la Mariee changed my conception that old people were all prudes. So I guess those 2 minutes mean there was a patriarchial sexuality in 1896.
Plot:
A newlywed couple in front of their wedding-bed after their wedding. The husband goes into raptures in front of his new wife, who simpers. She asks him to withdraw while she undresses and he puts a folding screen between them. She removes one by one the many layers of clothes she wears — a jacket, a dress, underskirts, sub-underskirts, a blouse. The husband does not stay in place, sometimes mopping his front, sometimes reading a newspaper, sometimes having lecherous looks above the folding screen. The actors send numerous glances towards the camera
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Alexander Nevsky, I swear modern scifi should throw that film in the credits, looking at you Star Wars, the evil emperor is totally the evil bishop. Aside from that lots of Charlie Chaplin.
