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Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
None
Description
This haunting silent thriller tells the tale of a mysterious young man who takes up residence at a London boardinghouse, just as a killer who preys on blonde women, known as the Avenger, descends upon the city. The film is animated by the palpable energy of a young stylist at play, decisively establishing the director's formal and thematic obsessions.
4) City lights
Series
Criterion collection volume 680
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2013, 1931.
Language
None
Description
The most cherished film by Charlie Chaplin is also his ultimate Little Tramp chronicle. The writer-director-star achieved new levels of grace, in both physical comedy and dramatic poignancy, with this silent tale of a lovable vagrant falling for a young blind woman who sells flowers on the street and mistakes him for a millionaire. Though this Depression-era smash was made after the advent of sound, Chaplin remained steadfast in his love for the expressive...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
None
Description
Watch the Quidget Family and the Subtractobats perform high-flying feats of mathematics! In this astounding story, Leap, Lily, Tad and the ever wacky Professor Quigley train numbers to count, add, and subtract in a series of amazing circus acts. Numbers and Quidgets fly from trampolines, trapezes and cannons as they teach early mathematical concepts.
6) The kid
Series
Criterion collection volume 799
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
None
Description
The Tramp and his ragamuffin sidekick triumph over life's hard knocks in the landmark film that changed the notion of what a screen comedy could be.
7) Three ages
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
None
Description
A dramatization of one man's quest for love in three parallel settings, a modern city, the stone age, and ancient Rome.
8) Safety last!
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
None
Description
The comic genius of silent star Harold Lloyd is eternal. He plays a small-town bumpkin trying to make it in the big city, who finds employment as a lowly department-store clerk. He comes up with a wild publicity stunt to draw attention to the store, resulting in an incredible feat of derring-do on his part that gets him started on the climb to success.
9) The general
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
None
Description
The restaging of the true story of one man's journey behind enemy lines to reclaim his captured locomotive during the Civil War.
11) The circus
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
None
Description
In the last film he made during the silent era, Charlie Chaplin shines as director, composer, and star. A gag-packed comedy full of audacious set pieces, it showcases silent cinema's most popular entertainer and ranks among Chaplin's finest.
12) Samsara
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
None
Description
"Prepare yourself for an unparalleled sensory experience. Filmed over a period of almost five years and in twenty-five countries, SAMSARA explores the wonders of the world from sacred grounds to industrial sites, looking into the unfathomable reaches of man's spirituality and the human experience. Photographed entirely in 70mm, SAMSARA's mesmerizing images of unprecedented clarity illuminate the links between humanity and the rest of nature, showing...
13) Intolerance
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
None
Description
In this cinematic milestone, director D.W. Griffith utilized enormous sets and thousands of extras in order to stage his cinematic exploration of intolerance and it's terrible effects throughout history from ancient Babylon and biblical Judea to medieval Paris and modern America.
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
None
Description
Triggered by the suicide of a worker unjustly accused of theft, a strike is called by the laborers of a Moscow factory. The managers, owner, and Czarist government dispatch infiltrators in an attempt to break the workers' unity. Unsuccessful, they hire the police and, in the film's most harrowing and powerful sequences, the unarmed strikers are slaughtered in a brutal confrontation.
15) The kid brother
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
None
Description
When a traveling medicine show rolls into town, it brings with it excitement, the possibility of love, and a chance for Harold to prove his mettle. Deftly balancing Lloyd's brilliant sight gags and thrilling set pieces, which include an epic, knock-down, drag-out fight aboard an abandoned ship, the film is a hilarious and heartwarming high-water mark of early screen comedy.
16) Der letzte Mann
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
None
Description
The story of a hotel doorman who is demoted to washroom attendant because of his age. Humiliated, he considers suicide. Then he experiences a strange twist of fate. This silent film is told entirely by camera, without title cards.
17) The big parade
Pub. Date
2013
Language
None
Description
The highest-grossing silent film of all time, as well as the first realistic war drama, tells the harrowing story of a young man's (John Gilbert) front-line experiences in World War I. The film fiercely captures the heroism of the ordinary foot soldier struggling to survive, and how James' determination to return to the village girl he loves faces the ultimate test. This is a restored version with a score composed in 1988.
Series
Criterion collection volume 134
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
None
Description
In a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that witches of the middle ages and turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients suffer from the same type of hysteria. Its a witches brew of the scary, the gross and the darkly humorous.
19) Sunrise
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
None
Description
A simple farmer's loyalty is tested when a woman from the city seduces him and tries to convince him to murder his wife.
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