1. Sunrise (F.W. Murnau)
Love (Edmund Goulding)
The Unknown (Tod Browning)
The Kid Brother (Ted Wilde)
Wings (William Wellman)
Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
The Cat and the Canary (Paul Leni)
The Chess Player (Raymond Bernard)
Chang (Ernest Schoesdack and Merian Cooper)
The End of St. Petersburg (Vsevolod Pudovkin)
A Wild Roomer (Charley Bowers and H. L. Muller)
King of Kings (Cecil B. de Mille)
Many a Slip (Charley Bowers and H. L. Muller)
The Night of Love (George Fitzmaurice)
Don’t Tell Everything (Leo McCarey)
Oops, didn’t notice October was 1928. Here’s my corrected list:
(1) Sunrise
Seventh Heaven
Metropolis
Napoleon
La Glace a trois faces
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
The End of St. Petersburg
The Lodger
College
The Kid Brother
Long Pants
The Unknown
The Show
Zvenigora
Underworld
The Girl with the Hat Box
Le Mystère de la tour Eiffel
Not a big fan of silents, so this list is respectively short:
1. Women of Ryazan
Metropolis
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
Napoléon
Wings
7th Heaven
The Lodger
The Ring
It
My Best Girl
College
The Cat and the Canary
The Beggar From the Dome of Cologne
1. Sunrise (F.W. Murnau)
Bed and Sofa (Abram Room)
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Walter Ruttmann)
The Cat and the Canary (Paul Leni)
The End of St. Petersburg (Vsevolod Pudovkin)
The Girl with the Hat Box (Boris Barnet)
L’invitation au voyage (Germaine Dulac)
The Kid Brother (Ted Wilde)
Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
Napoléon (Abel Gance)
Seventh Heaven (Frank Borzage)
Spiritual Constructions (Oskar Fischinger)
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (Ernst Lubitsch)
Underworld (Josef von Sternberg)
Women of Ryazan (Olga Preobrazhenskaya)
Please add L’invitation au voyage to my list. Forgot about that one.
1.The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
7th Heaven
Bed and Sofa
Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness
Metropolis
Napoleon
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
The Unknown
Also, but a step below:
College
Long Pants
The Battle of the Century
The Cat and the Canary
The Girl with the Hat Box
The Kid Brother
The King of Kings
Underworld
Wings
1. Sunrise
2. The Cat and The Canary
3. The Lodger
4. The Kid Brother
5. Hindle Wakes
6. Seventh Heaven
7. The Beloved Rogue
8. College
9. Sur un Air de Charleston
10. Now You’re Talking
11. The Unknown
12. Napoleon
13. Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness
14. La Glace a Trois Faces
15. Metropolis
16. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
17. The King of Kings
18. It
19. The Jazz Singer
20. The Ring
this is kind of hard cause you didn’t have the chance to see more films from this year.
So far Sunrise is clearly ahead of Metropolis.
Results of the 1927 poll will be posted next Friday, still 5 days to vote.
I have some gaps in the silent era but here goes:
Sunrise
7th Heaven
The Jazz Singer
Man, Woman and Sin
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
Underworld
Wings
Metropolis
Napoleon
Bed and Sofa
The End of St. Petersburg
1. Hindle Wakes
The Unknown
The Kid Brother
Underworld
The Beloved Rogue
L’invitation au voyage
Seventh Heaven
Sunrise
The Lodger
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
Napolean
King of Kings
Metropolis (unrestored version)
Love
Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
The Love of Jeanne Ney
The Cat and the Canary
It
Long Pants
Romeeow
Just missing the list was the dynamic and exciting short How to Use a Dial Telephone, but I had to give Felix the Cat the nod instead…
If it’s not too late, I also want to add on my list a 1927 film I’ve just watched :).
Bed and Sofa (Abram Room)
12/17/2010 Results: http://mubi.com/lists/19304
Thanks to all who contributed!
MovieGuide1
We need a reference and we have adopted the imdb. Don’t worry, The General will be eligible in 1926 and October in 1928.