Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Top 5 Top 5 Lists Related To, But Not Including, Battleship Potemkin


Top 5 "Propaganda" Films:

1. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
2. A Canterbury Tale (Powell & Pressburger, 1944)
3. I Am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964)
4. They Were Expendable (John Ford, 1945)
5. Air Force (Howard Hawks, 1943)


Top 5 Silent Soviet Films I Haven't Seen Yet:

1. Arsenal (Alexander Dovzhenko, 1928)
2. Mother (V. I. Pudovkin, 1926)
3. Strike (Sergei Eisenstein, 1924)
4. Storm Over Asia (V. I. Pudovkin, 1929)
5. The House on Trubnaya (Boris Barnet, 1928)


Top 5 Russian Films:

1. I Am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964)
2. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1968)
3. Ivan the Terrible Part 1 (Sergei Eisenstein, 1944)
4. Earth (Alexander Dovzhenko, 1930)
5. Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Eisenstein, 1938)


Top 5 Non-Soviet Silent Films:

1. Sunrise (FW Murnau, 1927)
2. The Docks of New York, Josef von Sternberg, 1928)
3. City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
4. The General (Buster Keaton, 1927)
5. Japanese Girls at the Harbor (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1933)


Top 5 Films of 1925:

1. The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin)
2. The Big Parade (King Vidor)
3. Seven Chances (Buster Keaton)
4. The Freshman (Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor)
5. The Phantom of the Opera (Rupert Julian)

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