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The Oyster Princess / I Don't Want to Be a Man

Rated: 0 | 178 Views Released Year: 1919

Genre: Foreign Silent Films
About: When the shoe polish manufacturer's daughter marries a count, the oyster king's daughter -- not to be outdone -- must have a prince in this wicked satire from comic master Ernst Lubitsch. Determined not to let his "princess" down, her mogul father finds a financially hard up royal and throws the couple a lavish ceremony. What follows, however, is not what the bride had in mind. Also included is a comic short about a tomboy masquerading as a man.
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The Chess Player

Rated: 0 | 152 Views Released Year: 1927

Genre: Foreign Silent Films
About: In this silent film set in 1776, an entire country's fate depends on the outcome of a chess game. After being wounded in battle, a nobleman is challenged to a game of chess by an evil baron; the game's winner will decide the fate and, ultimately, the future independence of Poland.
URL: The Chess Player

I Was Born, But...

Rated: 0 | 146 Views Released Year: 1932

Genre: Foreign Silent Films
About: Set in suburban Tokyo, this incisive silent satire follows brothers Keiji (Tomio Aoki) and Chounan (Hideo Sugawara), whose admiration for their father, Yoshi (Tatsuo Saito), takes a nosedive when they witness his fawning behavior in front of his employer. Making matters worse, Yoshi's boss is the father of their classmate. The supporting cast includes Takeshi Sakamoto, Mitsuko Yoshikawa and Seiichi Kato.
URL: I Was Born, But...

Man with the Movie Camera

Rated: 0 | 149 Views Released Year: 1929

Genre: Foreign Silent Films
About: Cinema pioneer Dziga Vertov's controversial 1929 film still pulses with energy, innovation and genius. This landmark silent masterpiece from the Soviet avant-garde director stylishly highlights the buzz of everyday city life (shops, traffic, children, coal miners, nature) as seen through the eyes of a roving cameraman. Many filmic devices are used to comment on vision, life, Marxism and modernity in the Soviet Union.
URL: Man with the Movie Camera

A Man There Was / Ingeborg Holm

Rated: 0 | 136 Views Released Year: 1913

Genre: Foreign Silent Films
About: A pair of powerful silent films showcase the work of director Victor Sjöström, who's credited with ushering in Sweden's first golden age of filmmaking and who later had a successful career in Hollywood. First, Sjöström directs and stars in A Man There Was, the tale of a fisherman who crosses a British blockade to save his family from starvation. Then, in the heartbreaking Ingeborg Holm, a woman loses custody of her children after being widowed.
URL: A Man There Was / Ingeborg Holm

Tangerine Dream: L'Inferno

Rated: 4 | 131 Views Released Year: 2004

Genre: Foreign Silent Films
About: In this unique fusion of vision and music, German electronic group Tangerine Dream performs an original score to the 1911 silent film L'Inferno. The earliest known Italian feature film, L'Inferno follows Dante Alighieri (Salvatore Papa) on a journey through hell. His trip, the basis for his epic Inferno, includes encounters with damned souls, three giants and Lucifer himself (Augusto Millo). The effects and sets are among the best of the period.
URL: Tangerine Dream: L'Inferno

Secrets of a Soul

Rated: 0 | 132 Views Released Year: 1926

Genre: Foreign Silent Films
About: The newborn field of psychoanalysis provides the backdrop for this 1926 German thriller directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst. A tormented scientist (Werner Krauss) suffering from an irrational fear of knives and the irresistible urge to murder his wife seeks help in confronting his demons once and for all. The scientist's fantastic nightmares find brilliant expression in surreal sequences that mark this as a work of true cinematic art.
URL: Secrets of a Soul

The Golem

Rated: 0 | 136 Views Released Year: 2002

Genre: Foreign Silent Films
About: Writer, director and actor Paul Wegener delivers the third and final leg of his Golem trilogy, a story based on a legend in Jewish mysticism about an astrologer (Albert Steinrück) who predicts doom for Jews in 16th-century Prague. The three films make up what is widely credited as the first horror series ever created, with Wegener's original film, The Golem, premiering in 1914 and its sequel, The Golem and the Dancing Girl, released in 1917.
URL: The Golem

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