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Top 5 Early Greats
« on: July 16, 2016, 03:07:32 PM »
Take a look at your Top 100 or 500 or 2000. What are the 5 earliest titles chronologically? What are the first 5 Great pieces of celluloid ever made?

1. Intolerance (1961)
2. The Last Laugh (1924)
3. The General (1926)
4. Metropolis (1927)
5. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

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Re: Top 5 Early Greats
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2016, 03:22:41 PM »
1. Intolerance (1916)
2. One Week (1920)
3. Go West (1925)
4. 1927 Extravaganza-Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Metropolis, 7th Heaven, & Napoleon
5. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

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Re: Top 5 Early Greats
« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2016, 03:32:30 PM »
1. Lonesome (1928)
2. The General (1926)
3. M (1931)
4. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
5. Un Chien Andalou (1929)

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Re: Top 5 Early Greats
« Reply #3 on: July 16, 2016, 04:58:13 PM »
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Safety Last!  (1923)
Our Hospitality (1923)
Greed (1925)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
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Re: Top 5 Early Greats
« Reply #4 on: July 16, 2016, 06:12:08 PM »
I only have City Lights in my top 100 from anything older than the 1940's, but my favorite early films are:

1. City Lights (1931)
2. Lucky Star (1929)
3. The General (1926)
4. Sherlock Jr. (1924)
5. The Phantom Carriage (1921)

I'm not sure if they're the greatest, but they're ones that resonate with me... Timeless.

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Re: Top 5 Early Greats
« Reply #5 on: July 16, 2016, 08:22:41 PM »
I only have City Lights in my top 100 from anything older than the 1940's,

So where does your list put #5? I'm interested to see lists from people who more heavily favor new movies. (smirnoff?) Looking to see how recent they go if they're 5 films deep.

I have over 500 titles, but 100 films in puts me in 1954 and by the next 100 I'm at 1972. Yet if I go backwards from the most recent, 100 films ago is only 2003.

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Re: Top 5 Early Greats
« Reply #6 on: July 16, 2016, 10:32:51 PM »
I only have a top 100 list, so, except for City Lights, I don't have any other of those movies listed.

I forgot my other 1930's movies! It Happened One Night (1934) and Only Angels Have Wings (1939).
Since they're talkies, I didn't think of them.

My placement:
#24 City Lights
#50 It Happened One Night
#67 Only Angels Have Wings

This is how my top 100 list is broken down:

1930's: 3
1940's: 11
1950's: 11
1960's: 10
1970's: 6
1980's: 8
1990's: 23
2000's; 22
2010's: 6


Would you consider my list, heavily favoring new ones, or about average in comparison to other filmspotters?

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Re: Top 5 Early Greats
« Reply #7 on: July 16, 2016, 10:38:21 PM »
Average. I think we all favor films we grew up with. According to my list the 1990s was the greatest decade of cinema ever.

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Re: Top 5 Early Greats
« Reply #8 on: July 17, 2016, 12:18:13 AM »
The first earliest films in my top 250:

1. A Page of Madness (1926)
2. Metropolis (1927)
3. Napoleon (1927)
4. The Man With a Movie Camera (1929)
5. Limite (1931)

Only the first one is in my top 100.

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Re: Top 5 Early Greats
« Reply #9 on: July 17, 2016, 01:07:18 AM »
The ten oldest movie in my Top 100 pool look like this

Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922)
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
The General (1926)
7th Heaven (1927)
Metropolis (1927)
Lucky Star (1929)
City Lights (1931)
Little Man, What Now? (1934)
The Scarlet Empress (1934)
Modern Times (1936)

That's ten spots and six directors, which says to me I should see some more older movies.
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