My line-ups for 1923 + 1924 recommendations.

Yeah, I suppose I'm not a fan of the silent westerns. Plus it felt a bit too preachy at times with the religious stuff, and all the character interactions felt forced, but I wouldn't say it's the worst I've seen from that decade. And like I said, Ernest Torrance was great, as were a few other supporting bits. The leads were just pretty faces, in my opinion, which might have bogged it down quite a bit.

I'm certainly going to check out your cut of Greed. Very excited for it. Also had L'inhumaine on my list, but opted out of seeing it originally. Maybe now I'll give it a chance. Especially since it's hard to find good lead actress roles during this time period, most the films I find are dominated by leading male roles.

This is the list of my potential options for 1924: Greed, L'inhumaine, The Last Laugh, The Hands of Orlac, He Who Gets Slapped, The Thief of Bagdad, Girl Shy, and The Iron Horse (which would be my first John Ford film).

Oh, yes! Of course. I had actually already seen Sherlock Jr. a couple times before. It's probably one of my favorites of the decade so far. So this year will be about what can top it.

I've been using Fandor for a lot of the films from this decade. There's a huge resource of films that I otherwise would not be able to find via YouTube, Amazon, Filmstruck, or even the Classic Film Archive. But I'm pretty sure that's how I stumbled across another of Victor Sjostrom's great films. He truly is one of my favorite directors, officially, now that I've seen The Hell Ship. He's just a natural storyteller, his vision is always ahead of its time but also isn't so overly ambitious that it sometimes feels distracting to the actual story (as Fritz Lang can be a little bit at times). Hell Ship isn't as good as the other works of his I've seen, but it's still great stuff and he gives another wonderful performance in the leading role (but the supporting characters are fantastic as well).

As for The Burning Brazier, it's a really offbeat type of film. I feel like I can see where some of Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, and Terry Gilliam might have gotten some influence (well... if they've even seen it. Maybe others took it from Mozzhukhin, then passed it to them). But while it gets a bit cheesy at times, it's chock full of ambition and true passion for this story. Not what I expected given the plot details, but it works very well. Shame Mozzhukhin never did a whole lot of notable works outside of this. Definitely check it out (also found it through Fandor I believe).

Also, nice top 5 you've got there! I love Buster Keaton, and I think he's probably my favorite of the three notable silent stars (he, Chaplin, and Lloyd would be my order). I really wanted to check out Coeur Fidele but I couldn't find it anywhere, and I had to skip out on Three Ages so I could make room for some other works (hell, I'm sure I'll get around to it down the road considering my adoration for Keaton). Want to check out The Pilgrim too but I would consider it a short film most likely, so I'll watch that down the road as well when I get into shorts. But yeah, I definitely want to get around to a lot more, I'm just trying to limit myself to just ten first time watches per year so I can have time for other years to keep myself on the move. I can definitely recommend the first two and The Wheel (though it's quite lengthy and feels every bit of it). All but my #10 have merits (I'd say skip #9 too, but I love Gish too much to say that), in my opinion of course. So get on them when you desire!

Can't wait for Gish & Sjostrom working together on The Wind! I have a feeling I'll love it to pieces.

I'm definitely not against shorts! I just would prefer to watch them separately and I don't really include them in my line-ups, so I'll gladly take those recommendations! I actually have all the rest on my watch list except for The Marriage Circle, so I'll add that to it, thank you! I'm excited, I hope to catch some good ones for 1924.