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Films of Jean Vigo, The (À propos de Nice; Taris, roi de l'eau; Zero De Conduite, L' Atlante) (1930-1933)- Dir. Jean Vigo
Feat. Jean Daste - Three early, formative short works from seminal French filmmaker Jean Vigo. A PROPOS DE NICE (1930, 21 min): Vigo juxtaposes the affluence and…
Prix de Beaute (1930)- Dir. Augusto Genina
Feat. Louise Brooks, Georges Charlia, Augusto Bandini - Louise Brooks is vivacious beyond compare in her first sound film, a jazz–age classic about a young office worker who enters a beauty…
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
- Dir. G.W. Pabst
Feat. Louise Brooks - Exceptional follow–up to the eye–opening PANDORA’S BOX, with Louise Brooks again provoking disorder with her unrestrained vitality and…
New Gentlemen, The (Les Nouveaux Messiers) (1929)- Dir. Jacques Feyder
Feat. Albert Prejean - A satirical French silent film, which uses a number of inventive visual techniques to comic effect. A dancer at the Paris Opera is the mistress of an…
People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag) (1929)- Dir. Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer
- Scripted by a young Billy Wilder, this pivotal silent film harnessed the nascent talents of many other German film–makers that would come to…
Woman in the Moon (Frau im Mond) (1929)- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Willy Fritsch, Fritz Rasp, Gerda Maurus… - Silent–era sci–fi from director Fritz Lang. Based on the 1928 novel "The Rocket to the Moon" by his collaborator (and wife at the time)…
L'Argent (Money) (1928)- Dir. Marcel L'Herbier
Feat. Pierre Alcover, Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel… - Classic of the late silent era from French filmmaker, writer and film theorist Marcel L'Herbier, based on the book of the same name by Émile…
Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
- Dir. Carl Dreyer
Feat. Renee Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, Michel Simon… - An intense recreation of Joan of Arc’s trial and sentence that qualifies as one of cinema’s most transcendental achievements. Consisting…
Un Chien Andalou (1928)- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Salvador Dali - Bunuel and Salvador Dali collaborated for this sensational short film that blew the lid off convention in a way history could never repeat. A…
Chess Player, The (Le Joueur d'échecs) (1927)- Dir. Raymond Bernard
Feat. Pierre Blanchar, Charles Dullin - French silent film based on the novel by Henry Dupuy–Mazuel, set in the 18th century, during the Russian domination of Polish Lithuania. After…
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