1925 Poll

1. Seven Chances (Buster Keaton, USA)

The Big Parade (King Vidor)
Chess Fever (Vsevolod Pudovkin / Nicolai Shipovsky, Soviet Union)
The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin, USA)
Master of the House (Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark)
Metropolis (Fritz Lang, Germany)
Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet Union)
Die Freudlose Gasse aka THe Joyless Street (G.W. Pabst, Germany)
Tartuffe (Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Germany)
The Freshman (Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor, USA)
Lazybones (Frank Borzage, USA)
The Unholy Three (Tod Browning, USA)

1. Seven Chances (Buster Keaton)

2. The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin)

3. Go West (Buster Keaton)

4. Tartuffe (F.W. Murnau)

5. Bronenosets Potyomkin / Battleship Potemkin (Sergei M. Eisenstein)

That’s it, so far…Bold ones are favorites.

1. Battleship Potemkin
2. The Big Parade
3. The Freshman
4. The Gold Rush
5. Theodore Case Sound Test: Gus Visser and His Singing Duck

Battleship Potemkin

Strike
The Gold Rush
Seven Chances
Go West
Tartüff
Paris qui dort
Chess Fever
Varieté
Rhythm 23

1. the hands of orlac
seven chances
the gold rush

Lots of great movies this year, at least a half dozen that I would not be embarrassed to place in the number one spot. But the one that continues to work on all levels year after year is

1-The Big Parade

Faces of Children
Lady Windermere’s Fan
The Merry Widow
Master of the House
Lazybones
Ben-Hur
Seven Chances
The Salvation Hunters
The Gold Rush
Lady of the Night Time for a Monta Bell revival!
The Circle
The Goose Woman
Cyrano de Bergerac Not really that good, but the color is beautiful!
The Road to Yesterday
Zander the Great
Body and Soul
Sally of the Sawdust
Whirlpool of Fate
Tumbleweeds

1. Wunder der Schöpfung (Hanns Walter Kornblum, Germany)

A Woman of the World (Malcolm St. Clair, USA)

A Woman’s Faith (Edward Laemmle, USA)

Aitaré da Praia (Gentil Roiz, Brazil)

Bajo el cielo antioqueño (Arturo Acevedo Vallarin, Columbia)

The Big Parade (King Vidor, USA)

Chess Fever (Vsevolod Pudovkin / Nikolai Shpikovsky, Soviet Union)

The Circle (Frank Borzage, USA)

Her Sister from Paris (Sidney Franklin, USA)

His Marriage Wow (Harry Edwards, USA)

The Imaginary Voyage (Rene Clair, France)

In Youth, Beside The Lonely Sea (???, USA)

Lazybones (Frank Borzage, USA)

Maciste in Hell (Guido Brignone, Italy)

Poil de carotte (Julien Duvivier, France)

Prem Sanyas (Franz Osten / Himansu Rai, Germany)

Slums of Berlin (Gerhard Lamprecht, Germany)

Variete (E.A. Dupont, Germany)

Visages d’enfants (Jacques Feyder, France)

La voix du rossignol (Wladyslaw Starewicz, France)

1. Our Heavenly Bodies

Faces of Children
Seven Chances
Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life
The Big Parade
Lazybones
Ben-Hur
The Imaginary Voyage
The Crazy Ray
Voice of the Nightingale
Battleship Potemkin
The Gold Rush
Serpent
Variete
The Unholy Three
The Salvation Hunters
Master of the House
Lady Windermere’s Fan
Go West
The Freshman

@ YUKI ADITYA

Metropolis came out in 1927, didn’t it?

GREAT
Seven Chances
Battleship Potemkin
Faces of Children
Master of the House
Lady Windermere’s Fan
Lazybones
The Big Parade
The Gold Rush
The Merry Widow

VERY GOOD
Stella Dallas
The Freshman
The Joyless Street
The Lost World
The Phantom of the Opera
The Road to Yesterday
The Salvation Hunters
The Unholy Three
Variety

BONUS 1 (documentary)
Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life

BONUS 2 (short)
The Crazy Ray

WANTED
Beggar on Horseback
Kentucky Pride
Les misérables
Orochi
Smouldering Fires
The Golden Bed

also hands of orlac is 1924

I’ve had to leave home prematurely meaning I can’t watch stuff on my laptop for the next week so I may as well submit my vote now.. I was hoping to watch more than this, but I will catch up with a few of the ones I missed once I’m home again (there are a few I’m still excited to check out). It’s just SO nice to be watching silent films again.

Stuff I’m voting for:
1. Seven Chances (Buster Keaton) ★★★★✰
Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein) ★★★★✰
The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin) ★★★★✰
Strike (Sergei Eisenstein) ★★★★✰

Stuff I’m NOT voting for:
Go West (Buster Keaton) ★★★✰✰
Voice of the Nightingale (Wladyslaw Starewicz) ★★★✰✰
Variety (Ewald André Dupont) ★★★✰✰
The Unholy Three (Tod Browning) ★★✰✰✰

1. El húsar de la muerte
The Eagle
Maciste in Hell

Battleship Potemkin

The Gold Rush, Seven Chances, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Strike and The Freshman

ok i’m ready

the big parade

faces of children (visage d’enfants)
our heavenly bodies (wunder der schöpfung)
grass: a nation’s battle for life
seven chances
battleship potemkin
the gold rush
the phantom of the opera
the unholy three
serpent (orochi)
the crazy ray (paris qui dort)
go west

i still need to see tartuffe, salvation hunters, lazybones, the lost world and master of the house among others but i’m running out of time. a very good year!!

Lady Windermere’s Fan
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
The Big Parade
The Circle
Go West
The Gold Rush
Kentucky Pride
Lazybones
The Merry Widow
The Road to Yesterday
Sally of the Sawdust
The Salvation Hunters
Seven Chances
Stella Dallas
The Unholy Three
Battleship Potemkin
Tartuffe
Varieté
Faces of Children
Master of the House

Let me just throw in here: WHY THE F*** IS THERE STILL NO REGION 1 DVD OF THE BIG PARADE? It was a huge success back in 1925, breaking the box-office record held by Birth of a Nation.
I remember when VHS editions of The Big Parade and The Crowd were released in the early 1990’s. I saw The Crowd and and was knocked out by it but never got around to seeing The Big Parade. Warner’s, please, PLEASE do the right thing and finally release these two on DVD!

1. The Gold Rush

What year is next?

1. The Unholy Three (Tod Browning)

The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin)
Master of the House (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Phantom of the Opera (Rupert Julian)

Damn really wanted to watch more films before this closed. Oh well baring any 11th hour editions (they’d be one of the two Clara Bow films I got if anything), here’s my small 1925 list.

1. The Gold Rush
2. Battleship Potemkin
3. Variety
4. The Big Parade
5. The Freshman
6. The Phantom of the Opera
+
and in no particular order
Master of the House
Lady Windermere’s Fan
Seven Chances
Whirlpool of Fate
The Iron Mule
The Unholy Three

1. The Gold Rush
2. Battleship Potemkin
3. The Phantom of the Opera
4. Strike
5. Seven Chances
Paris qui dort
Chess Fever
The Freshman

Battleship Potemkin (Sergei M. Eisenstein)

Seven Chances (Buster Keaton)
The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin)
The Freshman (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)
The Phantom of the Opera (Rupert Julien)
Tumbleweeds (King Baggot)
Go West (Buster Keaton)
Charley’s Aunt (Scott Sidney)
The Lost World (Harry O. Hoyt)
Sally of the Sawdust (D.W. Griffith)
Lazybones (Frank Borzage)
Her Sister From Paris (Sidney Franklin)
Lady Windermere’s Fan (Ernst Lubitsch)
Body and Soul (Oscar Micheaux)
The Red Kimona (Walter Lang & Dorothy Davenport Reid)
Grass: A Nation’s Battle For Life (Merian C.Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack)
Clash of the Wolves (Noel M. Smith)
Paris Qui Dort (Rene Clair)
La Fille de l’Eau (Jean Renoir)
The Plastic Age (Wesley Ruggles)

06/30/2012 Results: http://mubi.com/lists/1925-poll

Thanks to all who contributed!