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Posted by: The Uncreator Dec 23 2007, 04:37 AM

Anyone here into Silent Movies? I Get weird looks when people find out i like quite a bit of Silent Movies, one of my favorites is Nosferatu, from 1921 i believe, also, the first Dracula movies based off of Bram Stokers novel of the same name.

Any fans at all?

Posted by: JVM Dec 23 2007, 04:45 AM

I love Nosferatu One of my favorite movies. Other than that I don't really know many.

Posted by: xucphra Dec 23 2007, 04:46 AM

Oh yes, Nosferatu is a classic. I've seen it many times, and in fact I believe I have it saved on my computer

Posted by: Andrew Cockburn Dec 23 2007, 01:58 PM

Not exact;y Movies, but I used to love Harold Lloyd ..

Posted by: mattacuk Dec 23 2007, 04:58 PM

never seen it but would love too !

Posted by: xucphra Dec 23 2007, 05:06 PM

Another really old movie that is my favorite: Night of the Living Dead ....even though it isn't silent

Posted by: mattacuk Dec 23 2007, 05:26 PM

Would that make it a regular movie ??

Posted by: xucphra Dec 23 2007, 05:27 PM

Yeah, well it's old and black and white...so it's closer to these kinds of movies

Posted by: mattacuk Dec 23 2007, 05:46 PM

Id like to see that one actually, my mate always raves on about it as a classic movie !

Posted by: xucphra Dec 23 2007, 05:54 PM

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8162994492026870322

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6185283610506001721

Enjoy. Most black and white and/or classic movies are on Google Video for free

Posted by: Slammer Dec 23 2007, 05:57 PM

When I was a kid I used to love the old comedy silent movies, like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton's stuff.

Posted by: mattacuk Dec 23 2007, 06:00 PM

Wow thanks! thats very kind of you indeed!

Posted by: xucphra Dec 23 2007, 06:01 PM

I was watching them last night; and I still had them open, so I decided to share

Posted by: JVM Dec 23 2007, 06:02 PM

Both of those are great movies Enjoy.

Posted by: mattacuk Dec 23 2007, 06:09 PM

Nothing like a free movie ! (Unles its a Britney Spears movie in which case im not so interested)

Posted by: xucphra Dec 23 2007, 06:17 PM

Yeah, nobody likes a chubby blond bimbo trying to dance on stage

Posted by: rokchik Dec 24 2007, 02:51 PM

Harold Lloyd was great. I have not seen a lot of his films but Safety Last! would be my favourite of his.

I love silent movies. Actually anything from the golden age of Hollywood ranks high in my books A few of my faves are:

The General - Buster Keaton
City Lights - Charlie Chaplin
Nosferatu - Max Schreck
The Phantom of the Opera - Lon Chaney
The Kid - Charlie Chaplin

Anything by Buster Keaton of Chaplin is worth a look actually. They did a lot of their own directing aswell. A few other good directors to check out would be D.W. Griffith, F.W. Murnau and Fritz Lang. (Murnau directed Nosferatu)

Posted by: The Uncreator Dec 24 2007, 02:52 PM

Im surprised!

I thought i might be the only fan of Nosferatu, seems we have quite a few fans here

Posted by: rokchik Dec 24 2007, 03:09 PM

It's a great movie.

Actually the movie "Shadow of the Vampire" with John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe is a fictional tale of the making of Nosferatu. It's a pretty horrible movie though (I thought anyways) but figured I'd mention it anyways.

Posted by: Kaneda Mar 24 2008, 04:24 AM

Just a recommendation for you, Uncreator -- and others -- since I sat through a lot of silent movies during film and media studies at university... Some more enjoyable than others (Birth of a Nation was not a favorite)

Sunrise

It's by Murnau, so I guess you might have seen it, but that film is one of the few (about 15 out of 400) films that I have given 10 stars on IMDb. From the end of the silent era, and it did have a score recorded (although it works well without one).

And, of course, Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari is a classic too. Probably the most stylized of the expressionist films.

Posted by: Unleash-The-Shred Mar 24 2008, 04:46 AM

Havent really ever watched any. But I will have to check some out.

Posted by: Trond Vold Mar 24 2008, 01:28 PM

Der Golem is one of my favs, along with Nosferatu