I don't agree that "Nosferatu" is unusually dated but "Caligari" is really creepy

Is that the one that got padded out with stills to make up for the excised footage?

I know you're joking, but he did do some talking films—look for clips from "Queen Christina" or a really good little film called "Downstairs" in which he plays the villain.

Sadly, the Silent Movie Theater got taken over by some people who hardly ever show silent films there anymore.

I love Bernadette Peters' breasts in that movie. And how Marcel Marceau the mime has the only word of spoken dialogue.

I think it is a genre. It certainly is a unique art form. Break it up into Part I: Silent Comedy and Part II: Silent Drama, if you like.

The Big Parade is one of the best goddamn movies ever made. Holy cow do I love that movie. And it was huge—I think I remember reading once that it was the highest grossing film of the 1920s. Huge, huge hit. Also stars John Gilbert, whose career completely tanked after the transition to talkies, although the…

He does not mention that "The Unknown" has as its female lead a young and gorgeous Joan Crawford, several years before she started aging really badly and slathering on makeup by the pound.

The only thing I don't like about "The General" is that it is a movie which poses the Confederacy as the good guys. Get past that, and it is fantastic. "Seven Chances" is probably my favorite Keaton.

Christ, I have to watch this. Someone downthread posted a YouTube link.

So I sorted the IMDb listings for films released between 1-1-1914 and 12-31-1928, filtered for feature film and short film, and filtered for user ratings between 8.0 and 10. That came up with 125 films. Sorting those by rating came up with some weird stuff that I was not familiar with, so I sorted by number of…

If you go to IMDb and sort the top 250 by release date, you get six silent films:

I would recommend anyone who wants to get more familiar with silent films to first find Turner Classic Movies on their TV dial and check the schedule. TCM airs a silent film most every Sunday night, as already noted. They also occasionally show them at other times; just a few days ago there was a Lillian Gish…

Rob Zombie needs to put his money where his mouth is and make a silent movie. A good one could make money; "The Artist" made $40 million on US box office alone on a $15M budget.

Yep, that's the spot—the museum is conveniently placed right off the interstate. It's interesting, when you think about it, how geography is a constant. The most popular route the pioneers took over the Sierras (where the Donner Party got stuck) is the same place they built the Transcontinental Railroad 20 years…

If this is a real movie idea and not a gag, someone might want to tell Alec Baldwin that he missed the boat on making this movie by about 20 years.

"Mr. Death" is a pretty great film. That creepy little guy. I remember I watched it with my mom, and she said "I don't like that guy" and I said "You're not supposed to." Apparently Morris had to re-edit his film because test audiences were taking Leuchter's analysis seriously. That's the reason for the segments…

I remember reading somewhere once that the webbing of your thumb is the human filet mignon.

I've seen two different people in this thread mention the whaler "Essex"—there's an excellent book by Nathaniel Philbrick. The most fascinating part to me was the whaler's general ignorance of the ocean. If they had taken their boats west they could have gotten to Tahiti and probably been fine, but they had no idea…

There's a difference between scary and unbearably depressing. I don't know why anyone would watch "Grave of the Fireflies". Reading the TV Tropes page on "Grave of the Fireflies" was depressing enough.