Really interesting concept for a video John. I used to love watching Harold Lloyd. That bit with the clock always made my feet twitchy. Ahhh Metropolis. I only know about it being a massive Queen fan. They bought the rights to it. I haven’t seen many silent movies. I really should correct that. I’ve always wanted to see Der Golum. I was fascinated with it when I went to Prague. Nosferatu is the best vampire movie out there… still… even today. Great video John. Really enjoyed it.
Cheers Lisa, I've been meaning to do this list for a bit now and I can imagine I could do another 10 great silent movies video sometime 🤔🤩 the Clock scene is nuts Lisa 🤯🤯 climbing up the side of a whole building 😳😳👍👍 Metropolis as a movie is incredible 👌 yeah Der Golem is such a great looking movie!! The look of it is so watchable 👌👌👌 yeah I don't think they could ever top Nosferatu for look and feel Lisa 👌👌 thanks for watching Lisa 🤩🤩👍👍
This was such a good video John and you do know your stuff. I’m a Queen fan and know what your taking about. I don’t actually own any silent movies but I do remember watching a few back in the day but I can’t remember what they were called. Excellent video. Also the art work is Fab on these too. Speak soon.😀👍
Cheers Carl 🤩🤩👍👍 I love silent movies, they can be so entertaining and enthralling!! Even without any words!! They do have great artwork Carl you're right mate 👌 cheers for watching mate, take care buddy 🤩🤩👍👍
Hey John, what a great video and I applaud you for speaking so passionately about those films, that so many dismiss! You gave a great overview of the genre, checking most significant filmmaker from back then. I think three more big ones that are worth mentioning & recommending, and I can imagine you would approve, are: Sunrise, Phantom Of The Opera (1929) and Häxan. The first two Silent Movies I had seen were Nosferatu and Chaplin's The Kid. I cant imagine a better introduction, since those are so unique and different from todays filmmaking and are just a ton of fun, even for the inexperienced viewer.
Cheers Scmkar 🤩🤩 appreciate that mate 👍👍 I've liked Silent Movies for quite a while now and have really got into them in say the last 8 or so years ago, some utterly amazing Movies that need to be given a watch as people could be missing out on some gems!! 🤔👌👌 I have Phantom (which is brilliant) a lot of people talk about Sunrise and Haxan they are on my list to pick up for sure 😁😁 The Kid is one of my favourites too!! So emotional at times!! 😔 I fully agree that they offer such amazing things that everyone should at least try a couple before dismissing them! 😁 cheers again Scmkar for this great comment mate 🤩🤩👍👍
Hi John, that's a really interesting topic and one I was particularly interested in considering I've recently ventured into the world of silence (something rare for us married men) and you've given me some good suggestions and quite a few of those I've recently picked up. So far I've seen The Cabinet of Dr Caligari and I can only echo your thoughts on this one. Wings, which was spectacular with some incredible world war 1 airborne dogfights. My favourite one so far though has been Sunrise which would be now right up on my all-time list of greats. Cheers John and thanks for the entertainment.
Got to love a bit of silence Roy!! 😉🤩 I know you've been posting them on Instagram and I've had this idea for a while but your posts have spurned me on to record it 👍👍👍👍 I definitely have Wings and Sunrise on my wants list!! I've heard great things about them 🤔😁😁 yeah I could easily put Silent movies in my favourite movies list as I feel I get a whole different experience from them than talking pictures 🤔🤔 cheers again Roy 🤩🤩👍👍
@@MondoChelloveckMovies ah thanks John to know my little corner on Instagram has influenced at least one person actually means the world to me. 🌍👍😊 I put a bit of thought into my ramblings and I often wonder if anyone actually reads it or just press the like button and move onto the next picture. I acquired the Eureka Nosferatu the other day and it's one that's going in the player very soon. 😁👍
Yeah, I really do look at your posts and think hmmm I like that, or I'm going to put it on the list!! I hope you do make a channel one day as I think your tastes would make some great watching!! Yeah your silent movies definitely influenced me to get on this video for sure!! Nosferatu is a great release and for me the film is just perfect!! 🤩🤩🤩👍👍👍
Excellent video; really enjoyed that. I was a bit surprised you didn't include either of Lang's Dr Mabuse films, but it must be hard to pick a ten. Must give a nod also to Buster Keaton's brilliant and poignant short 'Cops', and to an early Lon Chaney vehicle 'The Penalty' from 1920, which was put out by Kino Lorber a few years ago. The ending is a bit disappointing due to Hollywood conventions, but worth seeing just to witness what the star put himself through to bring these characters to life.
Funnily enough I had a Dr Mabuse movie in there bit I put Hands of Orlac in and in knocked it out of the top ten, I've got the two movies and watched der spieler and really enjoyed it 👍👍 thanks very much for the heads up on the other movies, I'm always on the look out for new recommendations for Silent Movies 🤩🤩👍👍 cheers Shanghai 😁
Yes John! Nosterafu (1922) with Max Schreck in title role was the most scary version of "DRACULA" . The make-upwas outstanding! I like Bela Lugosi in the talking role but this one was the best one! Love "Metropolis" from director Fritz Lang. Tge BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS MOVIE OF ALL TIME. KING KONG(1933) was Second! I loved the Joan of Arc(1928) film. Closest to the novel!!! I would put earlier films of DW Griffith "Birth of a Nation"(1915)Intolerance (1916). John Barrymore Dr. Jeykyll and Mr. Hide(1920). Wonderful performance. Started as an actor on the stage. 1890's when films were just getting started. Yes Conrad Veight a very good silent film star who transferred to talkies. He gave Norma Scherer her academy award for "The Divorcee". He transitioned into dramas in the early '30's.
Cheers for watching 😁😁👍👍 yeah these Silent films have so much to offer it's amazing!! I find I get so much out of them..... possibly MORE as you are really taken on a storytelling masterclass by some of the people involved 🤔😁👍 I need to get to Birth of a Nation, Intolerance &the 1920 Dr Jekyll 👍👍 I could literally try any Silent movie out and find myself really invested in it 🤩🤩👌👌 thanks again for watching and commenting 😊😊👍👍
Great video John. I'm definitely going to give a few of these a watch bud, I noticed a few of them are on youtube like you mentioned. The Man Who Laughs is a movie that really interests me, with it inspiring the joker. An I'm looking forward to watching the chaplin movie modern times. Its unreal to think how old some of these movies are and how much cinema has changed over 100 years.
Cheers AP 🤩🤩 yeah I'm sure you could check some out on here I've checked out a few myself on here mate 👍👍 The Man Who Laughs is so good!!! You can see the Joker inspiration but the character himself is nothing like The Joker 😁 but still very memorable 👍👍some of the things in Modern Times is so funny, the device he uses to feed him food especially corn 🤣🤣🤣 so funny!! Yeah its literally like having a glimpse into the past 👌 cheers for checking the video out mate 🤩🤩👍👍
@@MondoChelloveckMovies The Man Who Laughs is a wonderful film, I agree. Strictly speaking it's not a silent film, but a half-way between silents and talkies. Completed in 1927 the studio delayed release for a year following the success of The Jazz Singer in order to create a movietone score for the film (which is included on the MoC disc). In a reversal of that, I would also like to recommend Vampyr, a 1932 film by the great Carl Th. Dreyer (Passion of Joan of Arc) which was supposed to be a talkie, in three separate versions; German, French and English. Due to the difficulties of doing this the dialogue is minimised, and intertitles are used. The film is shot in a very similar way to a silent film, and although a flop at the time it's one of my favourite 'silent' movies. Over here there's only a DVD from MoC (assuming it's still available), but Criterion have it on blu-ray for the region-free-ophiles!
Yeah I know what you mean about Man who Laughs and the time it came out, there is a sort of talkie of Phantom of the Opera as well.. I think they tweaked the movies to hopefully bring them into the new age 🤔 but wow!! Vampyr!!!! What a movie!!!! 👏👏👏 8 have the Eureka dvd and it's kind of the closest silent movie in talkie times 😉😁 yeah it's wonderful it should have got a memorable mention!! I think I might have to do another 10 silent movies video someday 🤩🤩 cheers mate 👍👍
Cracking video, John, and some really interesting choices. I've got a handful of the Eureka MoC silent films but not watched them all yet. Faust and Nosferatu are my favourites so far, and still got Wings and the John Ford double pack to go. I've just ordered Joan of Arc and Frau Im Mond based on your recommendations here. The Man Who Laughs will be next on my list. Clearly so much more to explore, though! All the best. Will
Cheers Will 🤩🤩👍👍I think MoC offer the most amazing selection of Silent Movies 👌👌 Faust is such a sinister movie 👹 I need to get Wings 👍the John Ford set looks interesting as well 🥴👌 Joan of Arc is such an amazing study of this woman and done so well, Grim at times 😲 Frau im Mond has such a great finale on the Moon!! 😁😁 but The man who Laughs wow!!!! Honestly Conrad Veight's performance is unreal 👌👌👌 I'm still delving into them myself, have a really great time with them 😁😁😁👍👍👍
@@MondoChelloveckMovies Just a quick one to say thanks so much for the Joan of Arc recommendation. I was blown away! I got the Eureka release and watched with the abstract guitar drone accompaniment, really heavy atmosphere to it but what a central performance. Unbelievable. I'm going to check it out again with the piano track next time. Thanks again, that was amazing! 👍
Great Will, yeah its such a powerful movie with an amazing performance 😲😲😊😊 ive watched the piano track myself so ill try the drone next time, most silent movies have an alternative audio, which is great !! Im really glad you liked it and im definitely doing a part 2 to this video 🤩🤩🤩👍👍👍
Before viewing, if _The Cabinet of Dr. Kaligari_ and _Nosferatu_ aren't on here, I'll be upset. Bonus points for _The Man Who Laughs_ (1928). Edit: OMG, you have it! 19:56 Edit: 2 out of 3 so far! 24:11 Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding! The scene where Nosferatu lifts, stiff as a board, out of his coffin is FANTASTIC!
Thanks Joseph 🤩🤩👍👍 there was no way that Caligari or Nosferatu should be left off anyone's list of top Slient films, they might be the most iconic of the lot 😁😁👌👌 the man who laughs was such a revelation!!! Couldn't believe how invested I was in this film Joseph 😁😁👌👌 that coffin lifting scene is one of the greatest effects of all time! I showed it to my Nephew recently, he was asking what can you possibly get from these films! I showed him the trailer for Nosferatu and he gasped when he "arose" 😱😱 that's why I said 😁😁😁👍👍👍
Great video, John. I first got into Eureka because they were the only one seemingly doing Silent movies on DVD, and I wanted decent copies of Nosferatu and Metropolis (I had them on VHS, but they were from public domain 8mm prints, so pretty bad). Great Top 10, there’s a few there I would like, but I’m going to recommend Fritz Lang’s epic Die Nibelungen, if you have seen it. Granddaddy of all fantasy filums!
Cheers Mark 🤩🤩👍👍 yeah Eureka seems to be the ones championing Silent Movies!! 👍👍 your right the early VHS copies of silent movies were absolutely terrible!!! I just thought that's how they looked and that was that, but when you see what a solid restoration does to them!! Uts literally mind blowing!!😲😲🤯🤯😁 I've looked at that one before, it's got a HUGE run time if I'm right? Yeah I would try any Silent Filum that gets released Mark 😊😊😊👍👍👍
@@MondoChelloveckMovies, yeah, basically it’s two movies. Took me two goes to get into it, but was well worth it. Spectacular! Also recommend Spione (Spies), amazing opening montage.
Ahh I see, yeah I'll definitely go for it and I've heard good things about it 🤔🤩 I've got Spies and agree with you there and it has the actress from Frau Im Mond in as well, which is great 🤩🤩👍👍
Hi John, thoroughly enjoyed this video, I have a fair few of these, I actually ordered The Hands Of Orlac yesterday, your right Buster did injure himself in The General he actually broke his neck under the water tower Wien the torrent of water was released, (he didn’t realise for some time after though) a few recommendations in here, I need Victor Hugo’s The Man Who Laughs. The Cabinet Of DR Caligary was a film I had to study in film school, along with a lot of early German cinema. Metropolis is a stunning movie and an essential addition in any collection. Nosferatu was another I studied. Well I can’t fault any of your choices there mate and yes I feel exactly the same watching these films in awe that everyone has since passed on but their legacy will live on in these beautiful pieces of art. 👍😀👍
Hi Alan, Hands of Orlac is such a great movie, made even better by another great performance from Conrad Veight 👌 yeah I thought he did something, broken neck 😳🥴 I don't know how he didn't die in some of his movies!! 😲😲 Man who Laughs is an incredible movie!!! So many great things in it!! Its a real thrill ride in the last 3rd of the movie!! 👍 German silent movies are in a class of their own!! Just so fascinating to me 😊😊 I would to have studied movies at school, sadly there was nothing like it in my Borstal.... sorry school 🤣🤩🤩 yeah we have talked about the fact that these people are long gone but still have a huge presence in todays movie world which is great!! Sadly I don't know if any of them knew that 😔 cheers for watching Alan, I'm sure there will be more Silent movie videos on the channel in the future 🤩🤩🤩🤞🤞🤞
@@MondoChelloveckMovies sound like we went to a similar mixed comprehensive school John, I went to night school and also went to college to learn film and a foundation course in cinematography, loved every minute of it.
🤩 I went to 6th form and left halfway through the year to spin cars on the Waltzer 😳 saying that if I could do it again I would have liked to do something like you did Alan 😊😊👍👍
Hunchback of Notre Dame, Lon Chaney Sr. is coming out any day, from Kino Lorber in the US. I gotta pick that up. That is a must have. As well as Phantom of the Opera with Chaney as well.
Cool. I see that's a 4K restoration by Universal, so fingers crossed it might get an MoC release here. Eureka have put out several Universal restorations recently.
That would be great to see..... back in the day I never looked at which companies released what, but these days it can give you a good heads up on who might release what! 🤔🤔🤩🤩👍👍
That's a great movie poster!! Really simplistic and stunning!! Would love to have something like that on the wall 🤩🤩👍👍 you've got to see this movie mate!! 😊😊😊👌👌👌
I think that might be it mate, I know it doesn't allow links on live streams 🤔 RU-vid can be a bit "nanny" at times 🤯🤩 thanks mate appreciate that 😁😁👍👍
You know John I might be wrong about Conrad Veight. I think it was Conrad Nagel that gave the award to Norma Shearer(1925-1942) who was a great silent actress who went into talkies. I forgot about Charlie Chaplin loved him from 1912- 1931. Then The Great Dictator character in Modern Times? Yes The Barrymore family Lionel, Ethel, big Edwardian Era stage actress. and John who was a stage actor like Ethel and Lionel. Everyone says that he was best actor of late 19th and twentieth century.
Great info here 🤔🤩🤩👏👏 not sure about that myself, but it's great to talk about these people long after they have gone, it's good to know they aren't forgotten 😊😊👌👌 Charlie Chaplin was such a clever film maker!!! 👌👌 to think that some of these people were the first to do these type of things 👍👍 the Barrymore family were the cream of Hollywood weren't they Missybaker 🤩🤩👍👍
Should have done the video with just title cards and no talking! ha ha. I still watch Caligari and Nosferatu about once a year. Also love one called The Man Who Laughs. Take care
Haha yeah and sped up the video a touch 🤣 I give them a watch quite regularly as well, I seem to have a "season" of them and watch a stack in one go 🤔 cheers for watching 🤩🤩👍👍
It's a shame more silent movies are not given the love they should. Of the Buster Keaton movies I'd also recommend Our Hospitality, Sherlock Jr, The Cameraman and Spite Marriage. Another Chaplain movie I'd recommend is The Kid. Some great dramas I'd love to see on bluray are The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Greed, and The Crowd. Some already on bluray Wings, The Big Parade, and The Black Pirate (a rare color silent).
Thanks for watching Andy and your recommendations mare 😁😁👍👍 since this video I have got more Silent Films and those Keaton movies are amazing 😁👏 The Kid is an amazing one as well, true classic 😁 those other films you have recommended I haven't seen, might have seen The Wind a long time ago, gotta say Wings is just a FANTASTIC film!! It completely blew me away!!!!!! 😱😱😱🤩🤩🤩👌👌👌 thanks again Andy 😁😁👍👍
@@MondoChelloveckMovies Finally somebody else mentions For Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the movie that made Rudolph Valentino famous. Unfortunately, I don't know of any good restored print of it. Maybe that's why it seems to get so little respect these days.
It's not mentioned enough unfortunately 🤯 maybe it is one that's either awaiting a remaster or the elements aren't available...... hope its not "lost" or incomplete 🤞🤞😊😊👍👍
Hey John. Interesting video :). I must admit, i haven't seen a lot of silent films myself. So it's pretty cool you choose this topic ;). Cheers mate !. P.S: I was thinking of sending you a gift from Holland. Would you like that ??. If yes, where should i ship it to ??. Let me know ;).
I've had this topic in mind for a while now, really happy to do it, had a lot of fun with this one 🤩🤩👍👍 that's very generous of you mate 😊😊😊 only if you're sure bud 👍👍👍 I can email you my details, many thanks again 🤩🤩🤩👍👍👍
@@MondoChelloveckMovies Ofcourse i'm sure mate !. Otherwise i wouldn't suggest it ;). I'll already send you an e-mail in which i have gives my mail adress once again.
That's a great laurel and Hardy silent film Jon 🤩🤩👌👌 I think their silent films get overlooked because they are so good at dialogue and I lot of people miss that (including me) but if you sit down and watch them for what they are they are really entertaining and another favourite of mine is Habbeus Corpus 😁😁 thanks for watching Jon, sorry about the late reply but this comment has just surfaced now!! RU-vid huh!! 🙄🙄🤩🤩👍👍
Speaking of Fritz Lang, have you ever found a rendition of _M_ with any kind of restored or decent sound quality? I have a copy of _M_ where the sound quality is so bad that it may as well be a silent movie.
🤔🤔 the only version I'm familiar with is the Eureka one I have, not sure I remember how the soundtrack is, haven't watched it for a bit, does it have that old sound a bit like Laurel and Hardy where it almost sounds like a record playing (surface noise) thanks for watching Joseph 🤩🤩👍👍
@@MondoChelloveckMovies Thanks for the reply. My major problem was with the sound almost "dropping out," requiring numerous adjustments of volume, and sometimes even at MAX, you could hardly hear the audio.
I'll have to check my copy Joseph, I can't remember having any problems with it but I'll take a look, that would be a hard thing to watch and listen to 😱😱 what release were you watching Joseph? 👍👍
@@MondoChelloveckMovies I'm freaking out. I just looked for it on the shelf, where it should be, and I can't find it. More later, if I have more information. >:(
There are many more Silent Films I need to see Dav, so in the future this list could change, but I'll try any Silent film, they always entertain me Dav 😊😊👌👌
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Although it is a racist story and hard to watch, you really have to include Birth of A Nation. It was the culmination of the art of cinema at that time, and its historical significance should not be altered by omission.
This is quite spooky mate..... I've just bought that today from CEX 🤯🤯 I'm aware of all the problems around this film, but I'm going in level headed and I consider it a time capsule of the time it was made 🤔 how strange is that mate 😱👍👍
@@MondoChelloveckMovies It's sort of like a master class in cinematic storytelling. If you have the chance, watch both Birth of A Nation and Cabiria in any order, and you will see what I would say are the starting blocks of feature cinema.
@unclerat2131 it's a very interesting time in Cinema and I'm interested to see how the structure of it plays out 🤔🤔 yeah I'll take a look at any Silent Cinema, they are like moving history books 🤔🤩👍
