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Modern TimesModern Times (1936) Recommended
Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard
A last hurrah for the Little Tramp, who finds himself a casualty of industrial turmoil. Chaplin's produced this silent classic in spite of the sound…
Goddess, TheGoddess, The (Shen nu) (1934) Recommended
Dir. Wu Yonggang
Feat. Ruan Lingyu
One of the best–known films of China's cinematic golden age, with the legendarily tragic actress Ruan Lingyu playing an unnamed woman who lives…
Harold Lloyd Collection - Disc 2Harold Lloyd Collection - Disc 2 (The Cat's Paw, The Milky Way) (1934-1936) Recommended
Dir. Sam Taylor, Leo McCarey
Feat. Harold Lloyd
Two classic Harold Lloyd features. Includes THE CAT'S PAW, with Lloyd entangled in local body politics; and THE MILKY WAY, in which the silent…
Harold Lloyd Collection - Disc 8 Harold Lloyd Collection - Disc 8 (Movie Crazy, Welcome Danger) (1932) Recommended
Dir. Clyde Bruckman
Feat. Harold Lloyd
Two classic Harold Lloyd features. Includes MOVIE CRAZY, arguably the comedian's best sound film, about making it in Hollywood; and WELCOME DANGER,…
VampyrVampyr (1932)
Dir. Carl Dreyer
Feat. Julian West, Henriette Gerard
Seminal psychological horror film makes up for in atmosphere what it lacks in technical sophistication. Dream–like plot concerns a young man…
City LightsCity Lights (1931) Aro Favourite
Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin, Hank Mann, Jean Harlow
Chaplin's most melancholy and beautiful film revolves around his love for a blind flower girl and his on–off relationship with a drunkard…
Silent NaruseSilent Naruse (Flunky, Work Hard; No Blood Relation; Apart From You; Every-Night Dreams; Street Without End) (1931-1934)
Dir. Mikio Naruse
A collection of silent era films from renowned Japanese director Mikio Naruse, the only five from the 1930's that still exist today, featuring new…
TabuTabu (1931)
Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Anna Chevalier
A beautifully filmed romantic tragedy based on a simple Pacific island folk tale. Poetry and sensuality is startlingly evoked through the play of…
City GirlCity Girl (1930) Recommended
Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Charles Farrell, David Torrence
Murnau's lost pastoral beauty about a Minnesota boy who marries a tough city girl and brings her home at harvest time, where their love is…
EarthEarth (Zemlya) (1930) Recommended
Dir. Alexander Dovzhenko
One of the poetic highpoints of Soviet cinema, this sets its simple tale amid the life of a Ukrainian peasant village undergoing modernization after…

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