1) The Passion of Joan of Arc
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
The Circus
The Dock’s of New York
The Wedding March
1. The Cameraman (Edward Sedgwick, USA)
L’argent / Money (Marcel L’Herbier, France)
Un Chien Andalou (Luis Bunuel / Salvador Dali)
The Crowd (King Vidor, USA)
The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg, USA)
Queen Kelly (Erich von Stroheim, USA)
Spione / Spies (Fritz Lang, Germany)
The Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra (Robert Florey & Slavko Vorkapich, USA)
The Patsy (King Vidor, USA)
The Wind (Victor Sjöström, USA)
Potomok Chingis Khana / Storms Over Asia (Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet Union)
The Show People (King Vidor, USA)
The Circus (Charlie Chaplin, USA)
Vormittagsspuk (Hans Richter, Germany)
Uberfall (Erno Metzner, Germany)
Lonesome (Pál Fejös, USA)
the passion of joan of arc d. carl dreyer
un chien andalou d. luis bunuel
the crowd d. king vidor
the docks of new york d. josef von sternberg
steamboat bill jr d. buster keaton
the circus d. charlie chaplin
1. The Crowd (Vidor)
Sadie Thompson (Raoul Walsh)
La passion de Jeanne d’Arc (Dreyer)
L’argent (L’Herbier)
Steamboat Bill Jr. (Keaton)
The Cameraman (Keaton/Sedgwick)
Spione (Lang)
Un chien andalou (Luis Buñuel / Salvador Dali)
The Docks of New York (Sternberg)
La petite marchande d’allumettes (Renoir) s
Queen Kelly (Stroheim)
The Fall of the House of Usher (Epstein)
The Wedding March (Stroheim)
Four Sons (John Ford)
1. The Cameraman
The Crowd
Un Chien Andalou
The Wind
L’Argent
The Man Who Laughs
I need to see more of the silents by Browning, Stroheim, and Sternberg. My list would most likely be different if I had.
1. Zvenigora (Dovzhenko)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)
Spies (Lang)
Street Angel (Borzage)
The Cameraman (Sedgwick)
The Bridge (Ivens)
The Fall of the House of Usher (Watson, Webber)
The Wind (Sjostrom)
Steamboat Bill Jnr (Keaton)
The Little Match Girl (Renoir)
1. Steamboat Willie
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
Tillie’s Punctured Romance
The Circus
A Girl in Every Port
1. The Man Who Laughs
2. The Passion of Joan of Arc
3. The Crowd
4. The Docks of New York
5. The Last Command
6. The Circus
7. The Wind
8. The Wedding March
9. The Fall of the House of Usher
whoops please add Passion of Joan of Arc into my list too. I thought it was a 1927 film, sorry
1. The Wind
Zvenigora
The Bridge
The Cameraman
The Circus
Steamboat Bill Jr.
Un Chien Andalou
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
+
The Wind (Victor Sjöström)
The Crowd (King Vidor)
An Andalusian Dog (Luis Buñuel & Savador Dalí)
The Man Who Laughs (Paul Leni)
The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg)
The Cameraman (Buster Keaton & Edward Sedgwick)
Steamboat Bill Jr. (Charles Reisner)
The Circus (Charles Chaplin)
1. The Passion of Joan of Arc
L’Argent
The Fall of the House of Usher (Epstein)
Arsenal
The Cameraman
Steamboat Willie
Steamboat Bill Jr.
Street Angel
The Circus
October: Ten Days That Shook the World
Storm Over Asia
The Wedding March
Spione
The Man Who Laughs
The Last Command
The Docks of New York
Two Tars
The Garden of Eden
Ghosts Before Breakfast
4 Devils
4 devils?
^ I mean to see it one of these days. I hear it’s terrific.
1. La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc
Un Chien Andalou
The Man Who Laughs
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
The Circus
Movieguide, please note when counting: The Fall of the House of Usher version i voted for is not the same as the Epstein one, which i was tempted to pick but has votes already. The Watson-Webber version is well worth seeing
1. The Crowd
2. The Patsy
3. The Passion of Joan of Arc
4. The Circus
5. The Wind
6. The Viking
The Cameraman
Storm Over Asia
Beggars of Life
Zvenigora
Speedy
The Man Who Laughs
Plane Crazy
Spies
The Crowd
The Passion of Joan of Arc
The Wind
The Circus
Steamboat Bill Jr.
1. Street Angel
Lonesome
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Patsy
La Petite marchande d’allumettes
Queen Kelly
Show People
1. Queen Kelly (Erich von Stroheim)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
There It Is (Charley Bowers and H. L. Muller)
L’argent (Marcel L’Herbier)
L’Etoile de mer (Man Ray)
The Mysterious Lady (Fred Niblo)
Steamboat Bill Jr. (Charles Reisner)
The Wind (Victor Sjostrom)
Moulin Rouge (E. A. Dupont)
Ko-Ko’s Earth Control (Dave Fleischer)
The Circus (Charlie Chaplin)
The Cameraman (Edward Sedgwick)
The Little Match Girl (Jean Renoir)
Beggars of Life (William Wellman)
Ghosts before Breakfast (Hans Richter)
Greeting by George Bernard Shaw (Jack Connolly and George Bernard Shaw)
The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (Slavko Vorkapich and Robert Florey)
The Man Who Laughs (Paul Leni)
Pass the Gravy (Fred L. Guiol)
Speedy (Ted Wilde)
The Cameraman (Edward Sedgwick)
The Wind (Victor Sjostrom)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Steamboat Bill Jr. (Charles Reisner)
What an incredible year!
It’s as if they had finally figured out what they could do with film, and at the same time knew that it was all too soon about to change!
1-The Docks of New York
Any of this next batch could easily be at the top of the list.
Street Angel
The Wedding March
The Crowd
The Wind
Steamboat Bill Jr.
Beggars of Life
The Cameraman
The Last Command
Show People
The Patsy
Spione
The Italian Straw Hat
Drums of Love
The Farmer’s Wife
The Racket
Hangman’s House
A Girl in Every Port
Queen Kelly
Sadie Thompson
Let’s hear no more about how great 1939 was!
The Passion of Joan of Arc
October
The Fall of the House of Usher (Epstein)
The Fall of the House of Usher (Watson, Webber)
The Seashell and the Clergyman
Street Angel
The Wedding March
Steamboat Bill Jr.
The Cameraman
Spione
The Docks of New York
Speedy
The Man Who Laughs
West of Zanzibar
White Shadows in the South Seas
Storm Over Asia
Zvenigora
01 Lonesome (Fejös)
and
The Wind (Sjöström)
The Garden of Eden (Milestone)
Show People (Vidor)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)
The Docks of New York (von Sternberg)
The Crowd (Vidor)
The Patsy (Vidor)
A Woman of Affairs (Brown)
Abwege (Pabst)
Four Sons (Ford)
Spies (Lang)
The Last Command (von Sternberg)
The Mysterious Lady (Niblo)
The Wedding March (von Stroheim)
Thanks to Movieguide1, I found out that Queen Kelly is actually 1932. That makes my new #1. The Passion of Joan of Arc (which will probably win this poll, but this is a very strong year).
1. The Crowd
Storm over Asia
The Passion of Joan of Arc
The Circus
The Wind
I second Robert Regan’s enthusiasm! A year with Hawks, Ford, Dreyer, Renoir, Walsh, Lang, Borzage, Keaton, Chaplin, Vidor, Von Sternberg, Hitchcock, Von Stroheim, Sjöström… Man, this is the pantheon. You can find something better only in the 50’s, when most of these filmmakers signed his mature works.
Top 20
Lonesome
A Girl in Every Port
Beggars of Life
Four Sons
L’argent
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Storm Over Asia
Street Angel
The Cameraman
The Circus
The Crowd
The Farmer’s Wife
The Italian Straw Hat
The Last Command
The Little Match Girl
The Wedding March
The Wind
Two Tars
West of Zanzibar
White Shadows in the South Seas
Special mention: The Docks of New York (out only because I prefer The Last Command)
Wanted:
Thérèse Raquin
Heimkehr
Jûjiro
I’m not a big fan ‘The Passion of Joan of Arc’. I think it’s the least Dreyerian film possible, as alien in his filmography as ‘They Caught the Ferry’. Nothing to do with the musicality, breath, discretion and brightness of ‘The Parson’s Widow’, ‘Michael’, ‘Master of the House’ and ‘The Bride of Glomdal’ (to name only his silent masterpieces).
La passion de Jeanne d’Arc
The Crowd
The Wind
Vormittagsspuk
La chute de la maison Usher
The Man Who Laughs
October
The Docks of New York
L’argent
The Cameraman
Spione
Storm Over Asia
1. Steamboat Bill Jr.
The Passion of Joan of Arc
The Circus
The Wedding March
Zvenigora
Un Chien Andalou
Show People
Fall of the House of Usher (US)
plenty of “good” films this year but these are the ones that meet my arbitrary and personal standards as “excellent”
MovieGuide1
What I’m asking you to do is to fill a ballot with some titles of your own choice. 1928 must be the year of first release (according to IMDb).
- Each person votes for up to 20 movies. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number, only true favorites.
– There is no need to rank the films except the number 1, it gets two points.
– You may change your ballot as many times as you’d like.
A certain standardization of the outcome is predictable, but it is not our goal to establish a Canon. It’s just a game and individual votes are the true centers of attraction.
Results will be presented in a specially created Movie List.
Thank you in advance for joining us in this game.