ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): silent films

Showing posts with label silent films. Show all posts

Showing posts with label silent films. Show all posts

Monday, October 6, 2025

Watching

PAGE OF MADNESS
[狂った一頁]
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Japan, 1926

Sunday, July 13, 2025

Watching

THE NAVIGATOR
Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton
USA, 1924

Watching

THE KID
Charles Chaplin
USA, 1921

Sunday, March 23, 2025

Watching

A WOMAN OF PARIS
Charles Chaplin
USA, 1923

Saturday, December 28, 2024

Watching

FOOLISH WIVES
[2003 Restoration]
Erich von Stroheim
USA, 1922

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Currently Watching

[Buster Keaton Shorts I]

35. THE BELLBOY
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
USA, 1918

34. CONVICT 13
Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton
USA, 1920

33. NEIGHBORS
Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton
USA, 1920

32. ONE WEEK
Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton
USA, 1920

31. THE SCARECROW
Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton
USA, 1920

Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Currently Watching

THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED

Lotte Reiniger
Germany, 1926

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The Adventures of Prince Achmed is generally considered to be the first feature-length animated film.

Currently Watching - 101 Shorts Edition

98. ORNAMENT OF THE LOVESTRUCK HEART
Lotte Reiniger
Germany, 1919

97. THE SECRET OF THE MARQUISE
Lotte Reiniger
Germany, 1922

96. CINDERELLA
Lotte Reiniger
Germany, 1922

95. GALATHEA: THE LIVING MARBLE STATUE
Lotte Reiniger
Germany, 1935

94. HUNT FOR LUCK
Lotte Reiniger
Germany, 1935

93. PAPAGENO
Lotte Reiniger
Germany, 1935

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Daily Painting(s)

John French Sloan
MOVIES, FIVE CENTS (1907)

Malcolm Drummond
IN THE CINEMA (1913)

Saturday, September 16, 2023

Currently Watching
[Never Actually Seen Before Edition]

THE LAST LAUGH
F. W. Murnau
Germany, 1924

Currently Watching
[Never Actually Seen Before Edition]

RHAPSODIA SATANICA
Nino Oxilia
Italy, 1917

Friday, October 14, 2022

HÄXAN

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Benjamin Christensen

Sweden, 1922

THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE

[KÖRKARLEN]

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Victor Sjöström

Sweden, 1921

Tuesday, October 11, 2022

From the film A Page of Madness (1926) by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

Sunday, May 8, 2022

THE INTRIGUE

The Forgotten Films of Writer & Director Julia Crawford Ivers

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Includes:

THE INTRIGUE

Director - Frank Lloyd

Writer - Julia Crawford Ivers

Photography - James C. Van Trees

USA, 1916

Color Tinted - 64 Minutes

THE MAJESTY OF THE LAW

(Reel 4)

Director - Julia Crawford Ivers

Writer - Julia Crawford Ivers

USA, 1915

Color Tinted - 13 Minutes

A SON OF ERIN

Director - Julia Crawford Ivers

Writer - Julia Crawford Ivers

USA, 1916

Color Tinted - 56 Minutes

BEN BLAIR

Director - William Desmond Taylor

Writer - Julia Crawford Ivers

Photography - Homer Scott

USA, 1916

Color Tinted - 64 Minutes

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

FILIBUS

The Mysterious Air Pirate

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Mario Roncoroni

Italy, 1915

Sunday, April 3, 2022

TO SLEEP SO AS TO DREAM

[夢みるように眠りたい]

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Kaizô Hayashi

Japan, 1986

Tuesday, October 19, 2021

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

Rupert Julian, Lon Chaney (uncredited), Ernst Laemmle (uncredited)
USA, 1925

Monday, October 18, 2021

NOSFERATU

F.W. Murnau
Germany, 1922

Saturday, October 16, 2021

THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE

Victor Sjöström
Sweden, 1921

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SOME QUOTES

MARGARET ATWOOD

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

DOROTHY ALLISON

If it’s true, I have the absolute right to terrify you with it.

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I am absolutely convinced that the main source of hate in the world is religion and organized religion. Absolutely convinced of that. And I think it should be - religion - treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt.

So when I say that I think religion poisons everything, I’m not just doing what publishers like and coming up with a provocative subtitle. I mean to say it infects us in our most basic integrity.

It says we can’t be moral without “Big Brother,” without a totalitarian permission. It means we can’t be good to one another without this. It means we must be afraid.

We must also be forced to love someone whom we fear - the essence of sado-masochism, the essence of abjection, the essence of the Master/Slave relationship. And that it knows death is coming, and can’t wait to bring it on.

I say that is Evil.

And though I do, some nights, stay home, I enjoy more the nights when I go out and fight against this ultimate wickedness and this ultimate stupidity.

JACK LONDON

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time living.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

STEPHEN BATCHELOR

It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bored. How extraordinary it is to be here at all!

DOROTHY PARKER

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

There’s no right answer to the wrong question. Now what do we do?

CARL SAGAN

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues.

When the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites - now down to 10 seconds or less - lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

MARGARET MEAD

It seems to me very important to continue to distinguish between two evils. It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.