It’s a bit late but let’s get going on the annual Reader Requests Month! Every year, I ask my readers to recommend silent films for me to review. I choose four or five titles and spend and entire month watching and reviewing your picks.
I first did this when my website was fairly new and ended up having a lot of fun with titles that weren’t necessarily on my radar. In a way, I am borrowing someone else’s taste for a month and I think it’s a great way to expand my horizons.
You can request any silent film (silent era or modern), any talkie that involves silent films or a documentary about the silent era. I read each and every title my readers ask for and consider the films carefully. If someone else has already requested a movie that you want, please feel free to second the request. And if you have multiple requests, that’s great! One or ten, list movies you want me to cover.
I do have several elaborate, research-heavy reviews in the works (I have been in the weeds of The Last of the Mohicans since before the pandemic) and may pass on certain titles because they are already part of my review schedule or I am missing some research.
I think that covers everything, please ask away and I will do my very best!
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Movies Silently 
A Page of Madness!
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cobra (1925)
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How many Maciste films have you done? I love Maciste in Hell.
None yet, thank you!
Nell Gwyn (1926)N
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The Extra Girl eith Mabel Normand
Whoohoo! I reviewed that one already so your request is fulfilled. Love Mabel too!
Here is a link:
https://moviessilently.com/2018/05/20/the-extra-girl-1923-a-silent-film-review/
For Better, For Worse
The Man Without Desire
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Thought of another one that’d be interesting to see your opinion on. Nurse Marjorie starring Mary Miles Minter (1920)
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Unknown Soldier!
Emily Laurance Executive Director Cleveland Silent Film Festival and Colloquium Editor,* American Harp Journal* http://www.clevelandsilentfilmfestival.org Guidestar Profile https://www.guidestar.org/profile/shared/ef75001d-778a-4231-a326-1a6ef2f8567a
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Maybe a Billy Belcher short.
one of the Kinex Stop motion shorts.
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It might be interesting to “review” some of the major lost films, (for example: The Patriot, London After Midnight, and Four Devils) based on any history or fragments that remain.
Thank you! I did a little piece on London After Midnight based on its talkie remake Mark of the Vampire, if you’re interested:
https://moviessilently.com/2015/02/20/missing-silents-london-midnight-mark-vampire/
The Orach Gurl, or Haxan
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Sorry Fritzi, my phone is doing very odd things. I’m trying to send you a comment
No worries, I deleted the ones that were unfinished and just kept your complete one. Thanks!
Sorry AGA
No problem at all!
The Peach Girl. Or Haxan.
Pavement Butterfly
Forgotten Faces
Man, Woman and Sin
Alraune
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Anything with Conrad Veidt (the Student of Prague would be a wonderful choice I think) plus some early Ivan Mosjoukine films. I definitely want to read your take on those.!
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For Mosjoukine, I have covered The Peasants’ Lot, one of his earliest, if you are interested:
https://moviessilently.com/2014/06/09/the-peasants-lot-1912-a-silent-film-review/
Oh of course I’ve read that (plus the one on The House in Kolomna which is such an adorable little film)! But to tell you the truth I had Protazanov and Volkov in mind.
Thanks Fritzi!
Ah ha! Thank you!
I’ve been wondering why you haven’t reviewed Casanova
Leonie
I don’t have many Mosjoukines, so I want to make the reviews special 😉
A few suggestions:
L’Inferno (1911), based on Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy
The Twilight Zone episode Once Upon a Time featuring a time-travelling Buster Keaton!
The Student of Prague (1913)
The Doctor Who episode The Feast of Steven, which partly takes place on the set of a silent film in the 1920s, complete with intertitles and a piano score! The episode is lost, but there are reconstructions, both photo and animation, available online
Cheers!
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I second The Student of Prague (1926)
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A Woman Of Paris 1923
Lucky Star 1929
He Who Gets Slapped 1924
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The Sentimental Bloke (1919) – a film based on a bestselling poem (!) read by soldiers during WWI to remind them of home.
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I know it’s kind of kind of a big, obvious one, but Buster Keaton’s The General fascinates me because it comes with a big, thick slab of “Did I just see what I saw? Did they just do what I thought they did? How did they DO that?”
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It might be interesting to dip your toes into Chinese silent film if you haven’t already. For a variety of reasons, silents held on longer in China than most other places– they lasted into the 30s! There’s a whole host of famous melodramas- The Peach Girl, The Goddess, Wild Rose, The Great Road. (Long Live the Missus and Spring in a Small Town are also excellent, but they’re talkies)
For some more lighthearted fare as an introduction, you might enjoy Sports Queen or Volcanic Passions.
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Many thanks for great blog! Would be interested to learn what documentary or non-fiction films were made pre 1927; also films with English subtitles: those from the excellent Danish film collection (eg) often have Danish subtitles! Richard Beaton
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These may be hard to see but I recommend the Polish classic Janko Muzykant (1930) and the recently restored Estonian Robin Hood like story Juri Rumm (1929), which is based on a real person.
Janko is the better film of these two, but the other one is interesting and enjoyable, too.
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How about The Stain,Theda Bara’s earliest surviving effort?
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Sorry I keep thinking of more! I really enjoy Janet Gaynor’s silent work. Maybe Sunrise, Street Angel, or 7th Heaven would make for a good review.
No problem, send as many as you like 😀
Filibus (1915)
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