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What are your top five?

Man with a Movie Camera
10 (21.3%)
The Trespasser
0 (0%)
Desert Nights
0 (0%)
Big Business
0 (0%)
Queen Kelly
1 (2.1%)
Un chien andalou
8 (17%)
Lucky Star
6 (12.8%)
Marianne
0 (0%)
Diary of a Lost Girl
4 (8.5%)
Speedway
0 (0%)
Liberty
0 (0%)
Pandora's Box
3 (6.4%)
Applause
1 (2.1%)
Rio Rita
0 (0%)
The Trial of Mary Dugan
0 (0%)
The New Babylon
0 (0%)
Escape from Dartmoor
1 (2.1%)
The Iron Mask
0 (0%)
The Letter
0 (0%)
The Dance of Life
0 (0%)
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
0 (0%)
Asphalt
0 (0%)
Navy Blues
0 (0%)
The Love Parade
0 (0%)
Movie Night
0 (0%)
Dans la Nuit
0 (0%)
Woman in the Moon
0 (0%)
Regen
1 (2.1%)
Arsenal
0 (0%)
Happy Days
0 (0%)
The River
4 (8.5%)
Redskin
0 (0%)
Seduction
0 (0%)
Men O'War
0 (0%)
The Last Warning
0 (0%)
Coquette
0 (0%)
Evangeline
0 (0%)
The General Line [Old and New]
1 (2.1%)
Spite Marriage
0 (0%)
The Show of Shows
0 (0%)
H2O
1 (2.1%)
Broadway
0 (0%)
The White Hell of Pitz Palu
0 (0%)
The Four Feathers
0 (0%)
The Cocoanuts
4 (8.5%)
Finis terrae
0 (0%)
Hallelujah!
0 (0%)
The Godless Girl
0 (0%)
Blackmail
1 (2.1%)
The Virginian
0 (0%)
Eternal Love
0 (0%)
Drifters
0 (0%)
Bulldog Drummond
0 (0%)
Disraeli
1 (2.1%)

Total Members Voted: 17

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Re: Best Films of 1929
« Reply #10 on: August 03, 2010, 02:04:23 PM »
I've kinda seen The Man With A Movie Camera but not really, so I'm dropping a goose egg on this poll.
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Re: Best Films of 1929
« Reply #11 on: August 03, 2010, 02:10:47 PM »
This is crazy that I've seen films from this early. #1 and #5 I saw on TCM, the others at school.

1. Applause
2. The River
3. Man with a Movie Camera
4. Un Chien Andalou
5. Disraeli
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Re: Best Films of 1929
« Reply #12 on: August 03, 2010, 03:28:00 PM »
Un Chien Andalou

I may have seen Cocoanuts, but can not remember.
I had thought Queen Kelly was an unfinished film, not released, but on looking it up it seems it is available. It is good to have such knowledge corrected, thank you.

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Re: Best Films of 1929
« Reply #13 on: August 03, 2010, 03:50:38 PM »
Voted for:

3. Diary of a Lost Girl
2. Un chien andalou
1. Man with a Movie Camera

Also seen:

- Lucky Star
- Hallelujah!
- Bulldog Drummond

I'd really like to catch up with Applause soon.

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Re: Best Films of 1929
« Reply #14 on: August 03, 2010, 03:52:36 PM »
I have only seen The Cocoanuts, which is fantastic.

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Re: Best Films of 1929
« Reply #15 on: August 03, 2010, 03:56:21 PM »
Haven't seen anything. :(
Oh, wait, yes! I have seen The Cocoanuts.

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Re: Best Films of 1929
« Reply #16 on: August 03, 2010, 05:18:21 PM »
I had thought Queen Kelly was an unfinished film, not released, but on looking it up it seems it is available. It is good to have such knowledge corrected, thank you.

It is both unfinished and available.

IIRC, Gloria Swanson, who was the producer as well as star, fired the director, Erich von Stroheim, and got someone to reedit what he had shot into a releasable film.  The available DVD has a lot of history on it.
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Re: Best Films of 1929
« Reply #17 on: December 18, 2010, 03:52:46 AM »
1. The Man With a Movie Camera
2. Un Chien Andalou
3. Regen
4. H2O
5. Diary of a Lost Girl

Honorable: The Love Parade
Good: Pandora's Box, Brumes d'automne, Hallelujah!
Meh: The Cocoanuts, Queen Kelly, Les Mysteres du chateau de Dé

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Re: Best Films of 1929
« Reply #18 on: October 11, 2016, 05:40:22 PM »
1. Lucky Star
2. The Skeleton Dance (Not on the list! For shame!)
3. The Man with The Movie Camera
4. Diary of a Lost Girl
5. Un chien andalou
6. Woman in the Moon
7. Blackmail
8. The White Hell of Pitz Palu
9. The River
10. Queen Kelly
11. Pandora's Box
12. The Iron Mask
13. Juno and the Paycock
14. The Manxman
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Re: Best Films of 1929
« Reply #19 on: October 12, 2016, 04:06:10 AM »
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