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1) Faust
Author
Language
Silent
Description
A tale of the battle between good and evil, in which Faust sells his soul to Mephistopheles. From the play by Johann Wolfgang Goeth. Score compiled from historic photoplay music by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.
Author
Language
English
Description
"1927: Mary Rourke-a Hollywood studio fixer-is called urgently to the palatial home of Norma Carlton, one of the most recognizable stars in American silent film. Norma has been working on the secret film everyone is openly talking about...a terrifying horror picture called The Devil's Playground that is rumored to have unleashed a curse on everyone involved in the production. Mary finds Norma's cold, dead body, and she wonders for just a moment if...
Author
Language
Silent
Description
In The Mark Of Zorro, his first full-blown effort at the costume thriller, Fairbanks portrays Don Diego Vega, a comically effete young nobleman with a taste for tasseled sombreros and juvenile silk-hanky magic tricks. But when danger calls, Diego swathes himself in black, straps on a well-honed sword and storms the countryside as the mysterious Zorro, slicing his initial into the faces of the "sentinels of oppression," pausing only to boldly romance...
4) Intolerance
Author
Language
Silent
Description
Four separate stories are interwoven: the fall of Babylon, the death of Christ, the massacre of the Huguenots, and a contemporary drama, all crosscut and building with enormous energy to a thrilling chase and finale.
Author
Language
Silent
Description
When a young prince is accused of a crime that could embroil him in international scandal, debonair super-sleuth Sherlock Holmes comes to his aid, quickly discovering that behind the incident lurks a criminal mastermind eager to reduce Western civilization to anarchy.
6) Film
Series
Publisher
Milestone film & video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (22 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
A man goes to considerable lengths to avoid being seen. Beckett's first venture into the film medium is a one-character production without dialogue, based on Berkeley's theory Esse est percipi, or "to be is to be perceived."
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Deluxe edition.
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (315 min.) : silent, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (35 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm)
Language
None
Description
Very few of the silent films of Laurel and Hardy's negatives survive, and the available elements scattered throughout the world are always mediocre or unwatchable. It took three years to gather all the surviving prints of these shorts, compare them shot by shot and give them the best digital restoration possible. Today, these invisible films look as young as they did 95 years ago. A world premiere for all the Laurel and Hardy fans.
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (143 minutes ) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two action-filled dramas of friendship, loyalty, survival, and love featuring Rin Tin Tin, a German Shepherd rescued from a World War I battlefield and brought to America, where he became a screen sensation.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (66 min.) : silent, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
A meddling aristocratic mother tries to stop her son from eloping with a grocer's daughter. So Mrs. De Peyster dons a working class disguise and goes on a mission with her maid to track down the lovers and block their illicit vows. But instead she crosses paths with a charismatic thief named Pyecroft who has plans to rob De Peyster's home. All of them end up at her home on 13 Washington Square where all of their lies hilariously come to light.
10) The trap
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (53 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
A grand story of romance and betrayal. Gaspard is a French-Canadian trapper whose beloved Thalie throws him over for Benson, the scoundrel who tricked Gaspard out of a mining claim. Gaspard nurses his resentments over a decade and traps a half-starved wolf as his agent of vengeance.
11) Leda
Publisher
GFY
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
[3D/2D version].
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (76 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
Haunted by memories and divine visions, a young woman struggles with trauma, rape and pregnancy in this poetic reimagining of the Greek myth.
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Special digital restoration edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (188 min.) : silent, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
An essential collection of 21 short art film experiments in HD to 5K scans made from 35mm and 16mm picture elements. Highlights include brand new digital restorations of classic experimental films. Each film features accompaniment of original silent film music specially prepared, composed, improvised and/or performed by a master of experimental new music.
13) Asphalt
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (94 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
From its elaborate and stylish opening scenes, Asphalt immediately establishes itself as a startling cinematic achievement of Weimar cinema. Gustav Frölich stars as a strait-laced traffic cop who has the simple task of escorting a diamond thief to the police station. However, Holk's routine assignment becomes complicated when he discovers the criminal in his custody: the exotic and beautiful Else.
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
2-disc deluxe remastered edition.
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (95 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
The quintessential silent vampire film, crafted by legendary German director F. W. Murnau. Rather than depicting Dracula as a shape-shifting monster or debonair gentleman, Murnau's Graf Orlok is a nightmarish, spidery creature of bulbous head and taloned claws, perhaps the most genuinely disturbing incarnation of vampirism yet envisioned. Features two versions of the film, the original German intertitles (with optional English subtitles) or English...
Publisher
Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (77 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
On his honeymoon with a bride he has wed for business reasons, a man falls for a woman who is in the clutches of a sinister character. After this woman begs him to help her escape, he plots to do so using the opportunity of a masked ball.
Publisher
Milestone Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (98 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
Credited to the legendary (and imaginary) 1920s Soviet director, Yevgeny Antinov, the film was made by Eleanor Antin in 1991. This silent drama set in a Jewish shtetl was Antin's ₃love letter₄ to her mother, who had been an actress in the Yiddish theater. When a gypsy caravan and its lovely dancer (played by Antin herself) arrive in the village, the life of the shtetl dwellers including Zionists, religious zealots, socialists, and lovers is upended....
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (134 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
Steamboat Bill Jr.: The effete son of a cantankerous riverboat captain comes to join his father's crew.
College: Ronald's high-school valedictory address praises books and condemns sports. His girlfriend Mary condemns his attitude. Fearing to lose her to rival Jeff, he decides to go to college and pay more attentions to sports.
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