Top Ten List (January 2023)
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1. |
Zvenigora Dir. Aleksandr Dovzhenko. Nikolai Nademsky, Aleksandr Podorozhnyy A+ |
2. |
The Passion of Joan of Arc Dir. Carl-Theodor Dreyer. Renée Maria Falconetti A+ |
3. |
The Fall of the House of Usher Dir. Jean Epstein. Jean Debucourt, Charles Lamy A+ |
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The Crowd Dir. King Vidor. James Murray, Eleanor Boardman, Bert Roach A |
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The Docks of New York Dir. Josef von Sternberg. George Bancroft, Betty Compson A |
6. |
The Fall of the House of Usher Dirs. James Sibley Watson & Melville Webber A |
7. |
The Circus Dir. Charlie Chaplin. Charlie Chaplin, Merna Kennedy, Allan Garcia A |
8. |
Steamboat Bill, Jr. Dir. Charles Reisner. Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence A |
9. | The Wind Dir. Victor Sjöström. Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love A |
10. | The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra Dirs. R. Florey & S. Vorkapich A |
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Ranked Tiers of Films Screened
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| The Fall of the House of Usher Dir. Jean Epstein. Jean Debucourt, Charles Lamy A+ |
★ |
The Passion of Joan of Arc Dir. Carl-Theodor Dreyer. Renée Maria Falconetti A+ |
★ |
Zvenigora Dir. Aleksandr Dovzhenko. Nikolai Nademsky, Aleksandr Podorozhnyy A+ |
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| The Circus Dir. Charlie Chaplin. Charlie Chaplin, Merna Kennedy, Allan Garcia A |
| The Crowd Dir. King Vidor. James Murray, Eleanor Boardman, Bert Roach A |
| The Docks of New York Dir. Josef von Sternberg. George Bancroft, Betty Compson A |
★ |
The Fall of the House of Usher Dirs. James Sibley Watson & Melville Webber A |
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| Un Chien andalou Dir. Luis Buñuel. Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil A |
| The Last Command Dir. Josef von Sternberg. Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent A |
| The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra Dirs. R. Florey & S. Vorkapich A |
| Sadie Thompson Dir. Raoul Walsh. Gloria Swanson, Lionel Barrymore A |
★ |
Sex in Chains Dir. William Dieterle. William Dieterle, Mary Johnson A |
★ |
Steamboat Bill, Jr. Dir. Charles Reisner. Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence A |
★ |
The Wind Dir. Victor Sjöström. Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love A |
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★ |
A Girl in Every Port Dir. Howard Hawks. Victor McLaglen, Robert Armstrong B+ |
| West of Zanzibar Dir. Tod Browning. Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore, Mary Nolan B+ |
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| The Barker Dir. George Fitzmaurice. Milton Sills, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. B |
★ |
The Cameraman Dir. Edward Sedgwick. Buster Keaton, Marceline Day B |
| Speedy Dir. Ted Wilde. Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff, Babe Ruth B |
★ |
Street Angel Dir. Frank Borzage. Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Natalie Kingston B |
★ |
The Telltale Heart Dir. Charles Klein. Otto Matieson, William Herford B |
★ |
White Shadows in the South Seas Dir. W.S. Van Dyke. Monte Blue B |
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| The Racket Dir. Lewis Milestone. Thomas Meighan, Louis Wolheim, Marie Prevost C |
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| In Old Arizona Dirs. Raoul Walsh & Irving Cummings. Warner Baxter C |
| A Ship Comes In Dir. William K. Howard. Rudolph Schildkraut, Louise Dresser C |
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