100 Silent Films: BFI Screen Guides

100 Silent Films provides an authoritative and accessible history of silent cinema through one hundred of its most interesting and significant films. As Bryony Dixon contends, silent cinema is not a genre; it is the first 35 years of film history, a complex negotiation between art and commerce and a union of creativity and technology. At its most grand – on the big screen with a full orchestral accompaniment – it is magnificent, permitting a depth of emotional engagement rarely found in other fields of cinema. Silent film was hugely popular in its day, and its success enabled the development of large-scale film production in the United States and Europe. It was the start of our fascination with the moving image as a disseminator of information and as mass entertainment with its consequent celebrity culture. The digital revolution in the last few years and the restoration and reissue of archival treasures have contributed to a huge resurgence of interest in silent cinema. Bryony Dixon's illuminating guide introduces a wide range of films of the silent period (1895–1930), including classics such as The Birth of a Nation (1915), The General (1926), Metropolis (1927), Sunrise (1927) and Pandora's Box (1928), alongside more unexpected choices, and represents major genres and directors of the period – Griffith, Keaton, Chaplin, Murnau, Sjöström, Dovzhenko and Eisenstein – together with an introductory overview and useful filmographic and bibliographic information. Tis Illuminating Guide Provides A Selection Of One Hundred Key Films Of The Silent Period (1895-1930), Featuring Films From A Variety Of Countries, Genres And Directors, Together With An Introductory Overview And Usefull Filmographic And Bibliographic Information. The Adventures Of Dollie / D. W. Griffith -- Alfred Butterworth & Sons, Leaving The Works, Glebe Mills, Hollinford / Mitchell & Kenyon -- Alice In Wonderland / Percy Stow -- Ballet Mécanique / Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy -- The Battle Of The Somme / William F. Jury -- The Battles Of Coronel And Falkland Islands / Walter Summers -- The Battleship Potemkin/bronenosets Potyomkin / Sergei M. Eisenstein -- Beggars Of Life / William Wellman -- Berlin, Symphony Of A City/berlin, Die Sinfonie Der Großstadt / Walter Ruttmann -- The Big Swallow / James Williamson -- The Birth Of A Flower / F. Percy Smith -- The Birth Of A Nation / D. W. Griffith -- Blackmail / Alfred Hitchcock -- Body And Soul / Oscar Micheaux -- The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari/das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari / Robert Wiene -- Cabiria / Giovanni Pastrone -- The Cameraman's Revenge/mest' Kinematografičeskogo Operatora / Ladislas Starewicz -- Casanova / Alexandre Volkoff -- The Cheat / Cecil B. Demille -- Un Chien Andalou / Luis Buñuel -- A Cottage On Dartmoor / Anthony Asquith -- Daybreak/tianming / Sun Yu -- Les Deux Timides/two Timid Souls / Réne Clair -- Douro, Faina Fluvial/labour On The Douro River / Manoel De Oliveira -- Drifters / John Grierson -- Earth/zemlya / Aleksandr Dovzhenko -- En Dirigeable Sur Les Champs De Bataille / Lucien Le Sainte -- The Fall Of The House Of Usher/la Chute De La Maison Usher / Jean Epstein -- Finis Terrae / Jean Epstein -- Flesh And The Devil / Clarence Brown -- The General / Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton -- The Gold Rush / Charles Chaplin -- Der Golem, Wie Er In Die Welt Kam/the Golem : How He Came Into The World / Paul Wegener, Carl Boese -- Gösta Berlings Saga / Mauritz Stiller -- The Great Train Robbery / Edwin S. Porter -- The Great White Silence / Herbert Ponting -- Greed / Erich Von Stroheim -- The Heart Of The World / Guy Maddin -- Hell's Hinges / Charles Swickard -- Les Hôtes De I'air/glimpses Of Bird Life / Oliver Pike -- How A Mosquito Operates / Winsor Mccay -- I Was Born, But .../otona No Miru Ehon: Umarete Wa Mita Keredo / Yasujiro Ozu -- L'inferno / Giuseppe Beradi Arturo Busnego -- The Informer / Arthur Robison -- It / Clarence Badger -- Japonaiseries / Gaston Velle -- The Kid / Charles Chaplin -- Lenin Kino-pravda No. 21/leninskaia Kino-pravda / Dziga Vertov -- Liberty / Leo Mccarey -- The Lodger: A Story Of The London Fog / Alfred Hitchcock -- The Lure Of Crooning Water / A. H. Rooke -- Man With A Movie Camera/chelovek S Kinoapparatom / Dziga Vertov -- Manhatta / Charles Sheeler, Paul Strand -- La Mariée Du Château Maudit / Albert Capellani -- The Marriage Circle / Ernst Lubitsch -- Metropolis / Fritz Lang -- Monte Cristo / Henri Fescourt -- Nanook Of The North: A Story Of Life And Love In The Actual Arctic / Robert J. Flaherty -- Napoleon/napoléon Vu Par Abel Gance / Abel Gance -- The Nibelungen Saga/die Nibelungen Saga / Fritz Lang -- Nosferatu : A Symphony Of Horrors/nosferatu : Eine Symphonie Des Grauens / F. W. Murnau -- The Oyster Princess/die Austernprinzessin / Ernst Lubitsch -- Page Of Madness/kurutta Ippeiji / Teinosuke Kinugasa -- Pandora's Box/die Buchse Der Pandora / G. W. Pabst -- Panorama Du Grand Canal Vu D'un Bateau / Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière -- Paris Qui Dort/the Crazy Ray / Rène Clair -- The Passion Of Joan Of Arc/la Passion De Jeanne D'arc / Carl Theodor Dreyer -- People On Sunday/menschen Am Sonntag / Robert Siodmak, Edgar Ulmer, Rochus Gleise -- The Perils Of Pauline / Louis Gasnier, Donald Mackenzie -- The Phantom Carriage/körkarlen / Victor Sjöström -- Policeman/keisatsukan / Tomu Uchida -- Poor Little Rich Girl / Maurice Tourneur -- Premier Prix De Violoncelle / Pathé Frères -- The Queen Of Spades/pikovaya Dama / Yakov Protazanov -- Regen/rain / Joris Ivens, M.h.k. Franken -- Revolutionshochzeit/the Last Night / A. W. Sandberg -- Safety Last! / Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor -- The Scarecrow / Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline -- Sex In Chains/geschlecht In Fesseln / Wilhelm Dieterle -- The Smiling Madame Beudet/la Souriante Madame Beudet / Germaine Dulac -- The Son Of The Sheik / George Fitzmaurice -- The Spirit Of His Forefathers / British Mutoscope And Biograph Company -- Stachka/strike / Sergei M. Eisenstein -- Stage Struck / Allan Dwan -- The Student Of Prague/der Student Von Prag / Stellan Rye -- Sunrise : A Song Of Two Humans / F. W. Murnau -- Suspense / Lois Weber, Phillips Smalley -- The Talisman/pied De Mouton / Albert Capellani -- The Thief Of Bagdad / Raoul Walsh -- Three-must-get-theres / Max Linder -- Tol'able David / Henry King -- Topical Budget 93-1: The Derby 1913 / Topical Film Company -- Underworld / Josef Von Sternberg -- The Unknown / Todd Browning -- Les Vampires / Louis Feuillade -- Voyage à Travers I'impossible/the Impossible Voyage / Georges Méliès -- Way Down East / D. W. Griffith -- The White Slave Trade/den Hvide Slavehandel / August Blom -- The Wind / Victor Sjöström -- Witchcraft Through The Ages/häxan / Benjamin Christensen. Bryony Dixon. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Bryony Dixon's illuminating guide provides a selection of one hundred key films of the silent period (1895-1930), featuring films from a variety of countries, genres and directors, together with an introductory overview and useful filmographic and bibliographic information "This illuminating guide provides a selection of one hundred key films of the silent period (1895-1930), featuring films from a variety of countries, genres and directors, together with an introductory overview and usefull filmographic and bibliographic information"