100 Silent Films

Dixon, BryonyBryony Dixon is Curator at the BFI National Archive where she is responsible for the collections of silent film.

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.

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.Draft list of 100+ films to form the basis of 100 Silent Films book [please note this is not a finalised selection]

A dedicated introduction to Silent Films featuring a range of classic titles, in addition to some more unexpected choices, that reveals the characteristics and development of the silent film

From the contents:Aelita (1924)Airship Destroyer (1909)Arsenal (1929)Ballet Mecanique (1924)Battles of the Coronel and Falkland Islands (1928)Battleship Potemkin (1925)Berlin Symphony of a City (1927)Big Parade (1925)Big Swallow (1901)Birth of a Nation (1916)Black Pirate (1926)Blackmail (1929)Brasier Ardent (1923)Broken Blossoms (1919)By the law (1926)Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1919)Cabiria (1914)Cameraman (1928)Cameraman's Revenge (Starevitch)Casanova (1928)Circus (1928)Coeur Fidele (1923)Cottage on Dartmoor (1929)CrosswaysCursed be War (1913)Deux Timides (1928)Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)Docks of New York (1928)Douro, Faine Fluvial (1931) late silentEarthEn RadeErotikon (1929)Fall of the House of Usher (1928)Fantomas seriesFaust (1926)Finis Terrae (1928)Fire! (1901)Four Devils (1911)Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)Fugitive, The (1915)Girl in Every Port, a (1928)Golem, DerGosta Berlings SagaGreat Train Robbery (1903)GreedHaxanHirondelle et la Mésange (1920)Hotes de L'Air (1910) aka Glimpses of Bird LifeInferno (1911)Informer (1929)Ingeborg Holm (1913) SjöströmIntoleranceItalian Straw Hat (1927)Japonaiserie (1904)Joyless StreetKeanKid, TheLa Belle Nivernais (1923) Epstein again!Last Laugh, TheLes Miserables (1925)Lodger, The (1926)Lure of Crooning Water, The (1920)MaldoneMan with a Movie cameraManhatta (1921)MantrapMarie du Chateau Maudit (1910)Marriage CircleMax ToreadorMenilmontant (1926)MetropolisNanook of the NorthNapoleonNibelungen Saga 1923-4NosferatuPage of MadnessPandora's BoxParis Qui Dort (1923)Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928)Patsy, ThePeople on SundayPerils of PaulinePhantom Carriage (1921) KorkalenPolicemanPoor Little Rich GirlQueen of Spades BauerRegenRevolutionshochzeit (1928) SandbergRescued by Rover (1905)Rien Que les HeuresRing, The (1927)Romeo and Juliet in the Snow (1920)Safety Last (1923)Scarecrow, The (1920)Sex in Chains (1928)Shakedown, The (1928)Sheik, TheSmiling Madame Beudet, TheStella MarisStrikeStudent of Prague (1913) Stellen RyeSunrise (1929)Testimony (1920)Tol'able David (1921)Traffic in Souls (1913)True Heart Susie (1919)Umarete wa Mita Keredo (1932) aka I Was Born, ButUnderworld (1928)Unknown (1927)Vampyr - (1932)Variete (1928)Vie et Passion de Notre Seigneur Jesus ChristVisages d'Enfants (1925)Voyage a Travers L'Impossible (1904)Warning Shadows (1923)Waxworks(1924)Wind, The (1928)Woman of Paris, a (1923)