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1925 Lineups Apr 10, 2024 20:17:28 GMT stephen likes this

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Post by Joaquim on Apr 10, 2024 20:17:28 GMT

This has been a long gestating project that I'm hoping to finally get fully back on track. It only took me like 2 years to get through 1925. I had already seen The Phantom of the Opera and Battleship Potemkin before diving in to 1925...and nothing I watched topped those two films but there was still some quality stuff in '25. Onto the lineups...

1. The Phantom of the Opera
2. Battleship Potemkin
3. The Gold Rush
4. The Freshman
5. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

6. Master of the House
7. The Merry Widow
8. Serpent
9. Strike
10. The Lost World
11. The Big Parade
12. Paris Qui Dort
13. Don Q Son of Zorro
14. The Eagle
15. The Clash of the Wolves
16. Body and Soul
17. The Unholy Three
18. Wolfblood
19. Kentucky Pride
20. The Monster

Best Director

Charlie Chaplin - The Gold Rush
Fred C. Newmeyer/Sam Taylor - The Freshman
Fred Niblo - Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Rupert Julian - The Phantom of the Opera
Sergei Eisenstein - Battleship Potemkin

Best Actor
Charlie Chaplin - The Gold Rush
Harold Lloyd - The Freshman
Johannes Meyer - Master of the House
Lon Chaney - The Phantom of the Opera
Tsumasaburo Bando - Serpent

Best Actress

Mae Murray - The Merry Widow
Mathilde Nielsen - Master of the House
Mary Philbin - The Phantom of the Opera

Best Supporting Actor

Lewis Stone - The Lost World
Malcolm Waite - The Gold Rush
Norman Kerry - The Phantom of the Opera
Roy D'Arcy - The Merry Widow
Wallace Beery - The Lost World

Best Supporting Actress

Astrid Holm - Master of the House
Claire McDowell - The Big Parade
Georgia Hale - The Gold Rush
Jobyna Ralston - The Freshman
Utako Tamaki - Serpent

Best Original Screenplay

Battleship Potemkin
Strike
The Big Parade
The Freshman
The Gold Rush

Best Adapted Screenplay

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Master of the House
The Lost World
The Merry Widow
The Phantom of the Opera

Best Foreign Language Film

Battleship Potemkin
Master of the House
Paris Qui Dort
Serpent
Strike

Best Production Design

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Serpent
The Big Parade
The Merry Widow
The Phantom of the Opera

Best Cinematography

Battleship Potemkin
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Strike
The Big Parade
The Phantom of the Opera

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
The Big Parade
The Phantom of the Opera

Best Costume Design

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
The Big Parade
The Gold Rush
The Merry Widow
The Phantom of the Opera

Best Film Editing

Battleship Potemkin
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Strike
The Gold Rush
The Phantom of the Opera

Best Visual Effects

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Paris Qui Dort
The Big Parade
The Phantom of the Opera
The Lost World

Best Ensemble

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Master of the House
The Gold Rush
The Merry Widow
The Phantom of the Opera

Nomination Count

The Phantom of the Opera: 13
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ: 10
The Gold Rush: 9
The Big Parade: 7
Battleship Potemkin: 6
Master of the House: 6
The Merry Widow: 6
The Freshman: 5
Serpent: 4
Strike: 4
The Lost World: 4
Paris Qui Dort: 2

Win Count

The Phantom of the Opera: 6
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ: 4
Battleship Potemkin: 2
Master of the House: 2
The Gold Rush: 1
The Lost World: 1

I have finally given Lon Chaney a very well deserved win after his 4th nomination since 1920, he's just fantastic. For 1926 I've already seen Faust and it's gonna be tough for anything to top that but looking forward to seeing what this year has in store

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Post by SZilla on Apr 11, 2024 4:06:09 GMT

Yeah, The Phantom of the Opera is probably my favorite from the year too. Just got to rewatch it in theaters with a live score and it was electric. Chaney is such an important actor - maybe cinema's first chameleon-like actor and his makeup design work is monumental as well. Definitely feels like one of the most crucial Hollywood stars whose legacy is highly underrated.

For 1926, Buster Keaton's The General is a must watch and Harold Lloyd's For Heaven's Sake is a riot too.

Here are some other recs for that year:

By the Law - Mattsby had recommended this a few years back and its excellent.
The Adventures of Prince Achmed - This slaps. The animation here is striking and mind-blowing at times.
Mother - The first of Pudovkin's "revolutionary trilogy" of soviet dramas. I don't think he ever reaches the heights of Eisenstein but its fairly innovative.
The Great K&A Train Robbery - I thought this was a fun, if standard, Tom Mix western adventure.
3 Bad Men - Early John Ford western.
A Page of Madness - An early, experimental silent Japanese horror film. Highly acclaimed, though I found it to be a difficult watch since it lacks titles, so its all visual here, and the visuals are fairly creepy too.
The Son of the Sheik - Truthfully, I don't remember too much from this besides it not really being my thing, but its iconic. I watched this on Netflix streaming back when it used to have a decent collection of films.
The Black Pirate - Douglas Fairbanks is a pirate. Again, not my favorite from him and its been a long time since I've seen it.

And while at 38 mins this technically qualifies as a short, I'd highly recommend Ménilmontant, which features a genuinely harrowing opening.

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1925 Lineups Apr 11, 2024 14:52:18 GMT

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Apr 11, 2024 4:06:09 GMT SZilla said:

Yeah, The Phantom of the Opera is probably my favorite from the year too. Just got to rewatch it in theaters with a live score and it was electric. Chaney is such an important actor - maybe cinema's first chameleon-like actor and his makeup design work is monumental as well. Definitely feels like one of the most crucial Hollywood stars whose legacy is highly underrated.

For 1926, Buster Keaton's The General is a must watch and Harold Lloyd's For Heaven's Sake is a riot too.

Here are some other recs for that year:

By the Law - Mattsby had recommended this a few years back and its excellent.
The Adventures of Prince Achmed - This slaps. The animation here is striking and mind-blowing at times.
Mother - The first of Pudovkin's "revolutionary trilogy" of soviet dramas. I don't think he ever reaches the heights of Eisenstein but its fairly innovative.
The Great K&A Train Robbery - I thought this was a fun, if standard, Tom Mix western adventure.
3 Bad Men - Early John Ford western.
A Page of Madness - An early, experimental silent Japanese horror film. Highly acclaimed, though I found it to be a difficult watch since it lacks titles, so its all visual here, and the visuals are fairly creepy too.
The Son of the Sheik - Truthfully, I don't remember too much from this besides it not really being my thing, but its iconic. I watched this on Netflix streaming back when it used to have a decent collection of films.
The Black Pirate - Douglas Fairbanks is a pirate. Again, not my favorite from him and its been a long time since I've seen it.

And while at 38 mins this technically qualifies as a short, I'd highly recommend Ménilmontant, which features a genuinely harrowing opening.

I’ve seen The General and For Heaven’s Sake. Both solid 8/10s, although it’s been a looong time since I saw The General, I caught For Heaven’s Sake a year and a half ago. That whole sequence where Harold picks a fight with the entire neighborhood then throws a fake bomb in the pool hall has to be one of the funniest scenes of the silent era for me :laugh:

Funnily enough even before diving head first into ‘26 I already had a decent amount of films watched for this year. Even though this project has been dormant it’s still been on my mind so when I open up the Criterion Channel and see what’s leaving at the end of the month I’d give top priority to anything released in the 20s. 3 Bad Men is another that I watched in the past couple years through this but didn’t like this one as much unfortunately

I just watched The Adventures of Prince Achmed and Mother over the past 2 days, both very solid entries. The Adventures of Prince Achmed in particular gets an 8/10 just for the animation style. As for Mother, I agree it doesn’t quite hit the heights of Eisenstein but the lead performance here is probably the best I’ve seen from these Soviet montage films. ‘26 is shaping up to be a real good year

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