So I have spent the last five days totally immersed in the world of 1925 silent cinema. Below is a list of the films I saw with either a live orchestra or a live organ or piano score played in time with the film like it used to be done. I think Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin was my favorite of all followed closely by Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush. I really enjoyed Strike! (but the slaughtering of the bull at the end turned my stomach) and although I kind of hated it while I was watching it, Die freudlose Gasse has haunted me for days.

Still, my two favorite silent films of all time are from 1927: Metropolis and Bed and Sofa (but I obviously need more).