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The same goes for Sergei Eisenstein's film October: Ten Days That Shook the World - we definitely watched that in film school but it's just a blur of Soviet imagery to me now.
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What are your favorite movies of 1928?
After last week's easy breezy take on the movies of 1990 I was due for a tougher pick this week when Siri answered my "Pick a number between 1 and 100" query, and she set about a stumper -- she told me "28" and so we've got to choose our favorite Movies of 1928. Indeed after some scouring I could only make a proper list of 4 (it's a very good four, mind you) but there's a post-script to that and there are several movies I want to see but still haven't... all that said let's get to it...
My 4 Favorite Movies of 1928
(dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer)
-- released on October 25th 1928 --
(dir. King Vidor)
-- released on March 3rd 1928 --
(dir. Charles Reisner & Buster Keaton)
-- released on May 20th 1928 --
(dir. Jean Epstein)
-- released on October 5th 1928 --
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Runners-up: Okay so I am pretty certain that I seen all three of the silent films that Alfred Hitchcock directed in 1928 - Champagne, Easy Virtue, and The Farmer's Wife - at some point, but that point would've been back in college and I'll be damned if I recall much of anything about them. I've been meaning to go back and re-familiarize myself with his early stuff.
And Then there's The River starring the dreamy Charles Farrell - I've seen scenes from it (him swimming naked in the titular river is unmissable) but the majority of the film is lost.
It would've been a cheat to include any of these movies on my "Favorites" list just to get the number up to five when in truth the four films that I did choose I remember well, have seen more than once, and like very much.
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Never seen: The Man Who Laughs (dir. Paul Leni), The Wedding March (dir. Erich von Stroheim), Our Dancing Daughters (dir. Harry Beaumont), Beau Sabreur (dir. Waters), The Circus (dir. Chaplin )
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