Aug 11, 2007, 03:06 PM
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Many possibilities here. Buster Keaton and Potempkin mentioned are very well worth multiple viewings. My personal favorite silents are the following:
Pandora's Box
Man with a Movie Camera
Sunrise
All 3 should be very accessible, Pandora's probably being the easiest to find. Man with a Movie Camera, unlike the other too, is an experimental documentary pioneering editing techniques Vertov began with Kino-Eye. Extremely fascinating. I don't know the context in which you are seeking out these films; you may want to start w/ Pandora's or Sunrise just to play it safe.
Faust, Nosferatu, and Les Vampires are ubiquitous titles we've heard of but few (in my generation, anyway) have seen. Other than Sunrise and Les Vampires, the others I've mentioned are Russian or German.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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